tutoring m2 year

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Hey guys... I am thinking about being a tutor for M1's next year and am just wondering if anybody else who did it thought it was helpful. I really enjoy tutoring so it's something I kind of see as a 'volunteer' activity even though I would get paid (not very much). I also do not feel as if I remember all that much from first year, even though I did pretty well. SO, I thought it might be a way to do something I enjoy while refreshing up on some of the first year material.

However, I obviously am more worried about learning second year material... So if it's not going to be that helpful I wouldn't want to tutor. I'm sure there are people who were tutors second year, any experience you could share would be sweet. 🙂

Side question--do you go over a lot of the relevant first year material throughout second year again?

 

[URHere]

I was a tutor for MS1 and MS2 students during my PhD years and I have a few general thoughts. Overall, the students who attended my sessions seemed to find them helpful, and I never felt like my time was being wasted. However, our sessions had no specific structure (they were supposed to focus on what the students wanted to cover), and my students were notoriously bad at requesting topics ahead of time. So…I often ended up having to review all of the medical school notes/slides for the week and spent 2-3 hours before every session just making sure that I would be able to cover whatever topics came up. Just because you went through MS1 doesn't mean you'll remember everything in enough detail to get away without prep time, and that prep time can be extensive. Ultimately, that's the reason I stopped tutoring.

Either way, I'm glad I did it for a little while. Make your own choice, just be aware that it may be more of a time commitment than you expect.

 

[DermViser]

Hey guys... I am thinking about being a tutor for M1's next year and am just wondering if anybody else who did it thought it was helpful. I really enjoy tutoring so it's something I kind of see as a 'volunteer' activity even though I would get paid (not very much). I also do not feel as if I remember all that much from first year, even though I did pretty well. SO, I thought it might be a way to do something I enjoy while refreshing up on some of the first year material.

However, I obviously am more worried about learning second year material... So if it's not going to be that helpful I wouldn't want to tutor. I'm sure there are people who were tutors second year, any experience you could share would be sweet. 🙂

Side question--do you go over a lot of the relevant first year material throughout second year again?

I just watched your video explaining your SDN name. 😆😆😆

 

[Petypet]

Hey guys... I am thinking about being a tutor for M1's next year and am just wondering if anybody else who did it thought it was helpful. I really enjoy tutoring so it's something I kind of see as a 'volunteer' activity even though I would get paid (not very much). I also do not feel as if I remember all that much from first year, even though I did pretty well. SO, I thought it might be a way to do something I enjoy while refreshing up on some of the first year material.

However, I obviously am more worried about learning second year material... So if it's not going to be that helpful I wouldn't want to tutor. I'm sure there are people who were tutors second year, any experience you could share would be sweet. 🙂

Side question--do you go over a lot of the relevant first year material throughout second year again?

I commuted to school and so if I came to campus, I made sure to make a full day out of it. I honestly can only put in 6-8 hours MAX studying during a day and after which I get burned out from reading. Thus, I had a few extra hours per week that would've been killed just farting around on SDN or youtube, so instead I tutored, got $10/hr, plus a few lines on my resume. I found that there is a huge difference between studying for step exams versus tutoring someone on their lecture material. They only care about what they need to know for the test and in order to teach them what the prof taught, you have to revisit old lecture materials and regurgitate/explain it in a different way.

I actually tutored MS1 and during MS2 because of my background, and I honestly got very little out of it regarding reviewing the material. Because of that I stopped tutoring about 6 months out from my step 1 exam. I tutored like 3-4 hours a week and maybe put in 1ish hours in prep. Do it more for the experience than trying to revisit old material.

 

[Dr. USMLE]

I tutor for steps 1-3 and I find it can be very helpful. Even if you more or less mastered the material for the tests, tutoring will help with seeing deeper connections and integrating the material on another level.

I can tell you that my radiology coresidents who scored in the same range as me on the steps have forgotten a lot more simply because they haven't used that knowledge in a long time. Tutoring is a nice way to prevent that.


Radiology Resident
Step 1: 265+
Step 2: 265+
Step 3: 265+

 

[Psai]

Not that I'm hating on your score but it's pretty douchy to put it in your signature like that.