Question for medical students

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Question for medical students:

Were your pre-med days more hectic or are your medical school days more hectic in general? In other words, did you have more spare time during your pre-med days or during your medical school days?

Thank you.

 

[Stixman28]

Question for medical students:

Were your pre-med days more hectic or are your medical school days more hectic in general? In other words, did you have more spare time during your pre-med days or during your medical school days?

Thank you.

I cant even tell if this is a serious question... Of course med school is harder, and accordingly, i have less spare time in medical school than i did during my ug or post bac.

 

[ercxi]

Question for medical students:

Were your pre-med days more hectic or are your medical school days more hectic in general? In other words, did you have more spare time during your pre-med days or during your medical school days?

Thank you.

It's amazing how much more free time I had in undergrad than I do now.

 

[Bacchus]

I have more free time in medical school. We're systems based and once we got past anatomy and cellular medicine free time improved drastically.

 

[girlofgrace7]

You have a LOT less free time (real "free time" anyway... there's less actually scheduled usually) in med school. I'd say 2-3 days worth of med school material is equal to about a semester-long UG science class (we had a review session on the third morning of classes... and it was necessary). That being said, you learn to make the most of your free time. I'm going out/hanging with friends a lot more than I did in undergrad just because I can't bring myself to waste my rare moments of free time.

 

[Dr McSexy]

I have about the same or more "spare" time (ie outside of classes, engagements, etc.). That spare time though is filled mostly by studying. Though I still have a lot of spare time (this year) to do other things. You just have to set your priorities.

 

[golfman]

As an undergrad, I had myself spread over more extracurricular activities and was always running around from place to place. But I had more free time, and when I was off, I was off and enjoying myself.

I am not spread so thin as a medical student, but when you do have free time during 1st and 2nd years you will constantly feel like you always need to be studying. At least I did. So, more free time but you use most of it studying. And you will still feel behind after all that studying.

And 3rd year just sucks the life out of you and you have 0 free time. A lot of time you get 1 day off a week, and you use that day studying for upcoming shelfs. 3rd year is pretty fun though, just not conducive to any kind of outside life.

 

[45408]

Different semesters were different. Fall of my sophomore year of college was probably busier than any of M1/M2, because I was taking 21 credits, volunteering, running a student organization, doing research, and commuting 30-40 minutes each way to two different schools.

 

[pulsepro]

setting up priorities is the one i do really care about for me to have useful spare time..doing research for some cases.

 

[mvenus929]

Question for medical students:

Were your pre-med days more hectic or are your medical school days more hectic in general? In other words, did you have more spare time during your pre-med days or during your medical school days?

Thank you.

In comparing to college, I have less free time now, because I study a whole lot more now than I did in undergrad (which doesn't take much... going to class was pretty much the extent of my studying in undergrad, save for the papers I had to write).

In comparing to what I did after college (worked full-time, raised two pre-teen girls by myself), I have mountains of free time. I can actually go out and do things now. I have alone time to decompress after a stressful day. I'm not tired all the time. (I'm an MS1)

 

[Neon Cough]

I talked to a lot of my peers about this and most say that medical school is much more time consuming. I guess it depends on your undergraduate school and your extracurricular activities, but I thought that my undergrad experience was busier.

In undergrad I was working weekends in a grocery store and I felt that I couldn't afford anything but an A in all of my classes to get into medical school.

Now in medical school I no longer work weekends and honestly I'm not so concerned if I don't honor (that's like getting an A) in every class (even though I probably should be). Of course that's changed now that I've gotten to third year, but even in third year, unless you're on surgery, it's a lot like working a full time job, in other words, not that bad. That's my opinion.

Of course in medical school you have to study a lot more etc etc... but you don't have to go to class either, so I think it evens out, furthermore I think some people's undergraduate classes were easier than mine, because there's no way I could have simply shown up and gotten grades good enough to get to medical school.