Quiet places

[stwei]

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Do you guys find it feasible for medical students to expect quiet places to be able to study? If getting on the wards would be the ultimate goal for students, what type of training do they need to deal with the noise?

 

[Robz]

Do you guys find it feasible for medical students to expect quiet places to be able to study? If getting on the wards would be the ultimate goal for students, what type of training do they need to deal with the noise?

I typically like to study in quite areas. I know if I am home I will load up a DVD, Xbox, PS2, or watch TV when I should be studying. In fact I was scouting out places to study besides the library when I went apartment hunting this last weekend. (I was thinking the beach and a book...ahhhhhhh)

wards are wards....you typically deal with the noise by turning it out. I still say being in a hospital around 3am when its really quite is a freaky feeling. I may have misunderstood your request, looking back at my post.

 

[DoctorInSpace]

I tell this to my MCAT Students in preparing for that, but I think it still applies---force yourself to study in a noisy place. Practice ignoring what is going on around you. Sit in a bench at the mall. Study at the book store or coffee shop. Being able to study with noise around you will help you to keep your concentration during any test when people are sniffling, shaking the table with their leg, clicking their pens obsessively, or when you are on the spot, in the hospital, needing to make the best decision possible when there is a lot of noice and chaos going on around you.

I hope that helps.

 

[Amy B]

I tell this to my MCAT Students in preparing for that, but I think it still applies---force yourself to study in a noisy place. Practice ignoring what is going on around you. Sit in a bench at the mall. Study at the book store or coffee shop. Being able to study with noise around you will help you to keep your concentration during any test when people are sniffling, shaking the table with their leg, clicking their pens obsessively, or when you are on the spot, in the hospital, needing to make the best decision possible when there is a lot of noice and chaos going on around you.

I hope that helps.

I should try those suggestions. I am one of those people who can be driven crazy by someone tapping their fingers or hearing a clock tick. The guy next to me during the MCAT almost died

by my hands because he was breathing too hard and making me crazy 😛

 

[samurai_lincoln]

I should try those suggestions. I am one of those people who can be driven crazy by someone tapping their fingers or hearing a clock tick. The guy next to me during the MCAT almost died by my hands because he was breathing too hard and making me crazy 😛

Why not earplugs as a solution? Are they not allowed? Cuts down on the ambient noise substantially, but not so much that you wouldn't hear time called or anything like that. I have taken (successfully, thankfully) bar exams in two states, and earplugs were a godsend for my wandering mind.

 

[Mr Reddly]

As I recall, not allowed... but I could be wrong... bad memory... What are we talking about again?

 

[Amy B]

Why not earplugs as a solution? Are they not allowed? Cuts down on the ambient noise substantially, but not so much that you wouldn't hear time called or anything like that. I have taken (successfully, thankfully) bar exams in two states, and earplugs were a godsend for my wandering mind.

For some reason they aren't allowed and I never really understood why. They must think that your ear plugs could make you somehow be able to cheat.

 

[medicomel]

Maybe they think you won't stop working on your test when they call time. Anybody here know for sure??? 😕

 

[(nicedream)]

They could be little speakers? Like remote headphones?