This is including class. People studying 3 hrs per day are lying to you. 6-10 hrs per day (GI block was an exception but usually its 10 hrs per day like 4-5 days up to the exam only) including class with one day off per week is like a job you would have if you werent in med school and is pretty darn avg I would say. I wake up at 10am everyday and have time for myself at night to watch netflix and do whatever I want after studying. It really is not THAT bad. GI block sucked but thats like 3 weeks out of the school year and most other blocks arent like that for us
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You can retain the information for STEP1, but do med students find any incentive to retaining information after STEP1, through clinicals and on to residency? Obviously, you should and will know the information that is clinically relevant to your field, but after STEP1 do you really need the nitty-gritty stuff?
Nah already deleted zanki haha
I just hope I’ll be a good masseuse as well after that.
We all started out making fun of it, but you really do get a feel for muscles and bones and how to adjust them pretty quickly. My girlfriend is constantly asking me to do OMM after her workouts.
Do many DOs actually utilize OMM in their practice?
That's the constant question. The real answer: it depends, but probably not that many use it on a daily basis. DO PM&R docs probably have far more opportunities than DO psychiatrists.
90%+ don't.
Thinking of it as MSK, does OMM help you at all with general Anatomy learning or not so much?
Not sure what you're getting at. Not sure I care to. If you're just here to mock OMM, take it elsewhere. Not relevant to the discussion at hand.
Most of the students I have spoken with say that they and most of their professors take this 19th century idea and merely
Most of the time the don’t believe anything of it and they will say “I feel it” because it is part of their grade and they won’t get the degree without it. Most DO students are students who want to be doctors but had too low of stats for MD, so be it. Stats don’t mean anything for the quality of doctor. As others in here have mentioned, 90+% of DOs don’t use it at all. Those that do use OMM will use just OMT most of which has many, MANY, of the same techniques used by PMR, PT, Sports Medicine and, yes, chiropractics and massage therapists. Very, VERY few in the DO community think much of the whole cranial stuff. However, beyond the OMM aspect, a DO curriculum is 100% the same as any MD school. Don’t deride an entire field (that puts out about 25% of all new doctors).
No.. I’m trying to understand what the “rhythm” is. Why not just answer my question instead of being defensive? How can I mock something I don’t even know the theory of?
Until you asked your initial question, there had been a grand total of zero references to "rhythm" in this thread. So, what rhythm are you talking about?
The craniosacral rhythm. It was mentioned. I’m just trying to understand the theory so I can ponder it myself.
It wasn't mentioned in this thread. That, combined with your comment about being a good masseuse led me to believe you were mocking it. I apologize if I caused offense, but sarcasm doesn't translate well into text. In any case, I can't comment on the "rhythm" as we have yet to cover craniosacral material at my school.
I've seen hubris before, but confidence that you're going to be in the top 30% of all MD students before you even apply to medical school is...advanced hubris.
I have acknowledged my mistake in self evaluation of something I know nothing about. The hubris does still apply for my pre-MED activities as I do tend to be highly self-confident and perform within my own expectations of myself (as it applies to things I actually plan for and have experience with). As far as STEP goes, you are correct, I was wrong and I rescind my statement as I cannot possibly guess how I will do on something outside of the context of being in that something (step and MED school, respectively).
Good to hear! FYI, just for future reference - it's not an acronym, the word is literally "Step," as in one of several steps (there are 3 exams).
I'd say the cutoff is well below what you need to get accepted to medical school. Nowadays you need roundabouts a 3.7-8 to have a solid GPA for your application, but I think if you're able to hold your own and get like a 3.3 or above in the pre-med track you can almost certainly pass medical school. I agree that organic chemistry does employ the same thought process as clinical problems. However, it's a very poor marker for how someone would perform in medical school. The difficulty of medical school is the enormous volume of the material - most concepts on their own are not particularly difficult to understand (unlike organic chemistry, in which there isn't very much memorization but the concepts can be extremely hard). The best indicator of success would probably be taking multiple high-level courses simultaneously, some of which require a lot of memorization.
A bad grade here and there is not something to be overly concerned about as long as it doesn't drastically affect your overall GPA. As for the MCAT, I believe there's actually been formal studies done on this. I seem to remember there's a certain score (not super high, maybe like 27 or so on the old one) at which point it's overwhelmingly likely that you will graduate medical school in four years. As for getting in, that's a different story unfortunately.
I know it’s a not an acronym, I just put it in all capitals because it feels weird to have a test that isn’t in all caps (SAT, GRE, OAT, DAT, MCAT....just feels weird to me not to put STEP)
Oh I finally found something on it. So the theory is that the skull bones cause the CSF to pulse down the spinal cord like the heart does blood, and when it’s out of whack it causes problems.
I would assume you still need to know and apply basic chem principles (Le’chatlier equilibrium, like-dissolves like, metals bind a certain number of ligands to form X geometry etc.) But you probably don’t need to use your calculator a whole lot, do yuh?
If you can still get a 500+ youll be fine in med school. I got a 497 and im doing very very well in med school. My study buddy got a 496 and he also does very well. MCAT just tests whether you have the discipline to study everyday for hrs and hrs for an extended period of time like you do in med school. Preclinical grades in med school have the best predictor for board success much more than MCAT
The only chem I’ve ever used is H2O + CO2 -> H2CO3 -> H+ + HCO3-
Even within learning enzymatic pathways and pharmacology you don’t use any sort of chemistry?
