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Many of us will be starting clerkships in a few months. While I'm really happy to be done with the bookwork and on to seeing patients, I'm also a little anxious about the new grading scheme. (I know it's not all about the grades, but still, I'd like to do well!) In the 1st 2 years, if you put in the work you can see results, but I think it might be different with clerkships where your personality and natural ability to interact with people might be more significant. There's really no way to improve yourself in that reguard.
So to you people who have done this already... any thoughts? Can you work hard to do better or should you just try to get enough sleep so you're not completely spaced out when you talk to patients? I'm more on the introvert side of the spectrum... I'm not shy and I speak up when I have something to say, but I'm not one of those center-of-the-party kinds of people. I'm wondering if I'm going to find this transition difficult.
(Any other clerkship anxieties or tips?)
So to you people who have done this already... any thoughts? Can you work hard to do better or should you just try to get enough sleep so you're not completely spaced out when you talk to patients? I'm more on the introvert side of the spectrum... I'm not shy and I speak up when I have something to say, but I'm not one of those center-of-the-party kinds of people. I'm wondering if I'm going to find this transition difficult.
(Any other clerkship anxieties or tips?)