Can someone give me an example of the volume of work one does at home a night/week. How much do you read? How many pages of notes do you study? How detailed are the notes? What is the time period between each test?
Volume of work in medical school
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Not to be mean, but do you really think residents and attendings have the time and/or inclination to fill out your "forum"? At least spell "form" correctly, and in this case it's more correctly a survey. In designing a survey, you also want to explain the purpose of the survey, and ask nicely. Even so, don't expect a lot of responses to pop up on SDN.
With regard to volume of work in med school, just know that it's a lot, but if you managed to get accepted chances are you'll be able to handle it.
Just out of curiosity, what stage are you in your training? I see you're a premed so I'm just wondering what year.
With regard to volume of work in med school, just know that it's a lot, but if you managed to get accepted chances are you'll be able to handle it.
Just out of curiosity, what stage are you in your training? I see you're a premed so I'm just wondering what year.
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everything is dependent upon the individual, there is no one answer
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So true. If you are struggling with your sophomore year of high school, it might be a little premature to be thinking about the volume of work in med school.
Med school isn't that difficult- but there is a lot of information to wade through. You need to get through high school and college, and maybe spend a few years out of school in the "real world" (job/peace corps/teach for america/whatever) before you will be mentally prepared to handle things and do well.
If medicine is your goal- great. Stick with it, but seriously get your study habits under control, because high school, and even college, is easy as hell compared to med school. And I know what I'm talking about.
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Oh, and you might want to work on keeping your douche-baggary to a minimum, that won't go over well in future.
When you're a first year med student, you take advice from 2nd years, and when you're a 3rd/4th year you take advice from jr. residents. There is a hierarchy in medicine, and the people who will often be your best resources aren't those at the very top, but those who have just been through what you're going through and are WILLING to help you out.
When you're a first year med student, you take advice from 2nd years, and when you're a 3rd/4th year you take advice from jr. residents. There is a hierarchy in medicine, and the people who will often be your best resources aren't those at the very top, but those who have just been through what you're going through and are WILLING to help you out.
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This does not belong in the allopathic section. It should go in pre-allo
Let us docs amd med students wrap up this board by giving the OP the time-worn but appropriate analogy that trying to learn all the information in med school is like trying to drink from a fire hydrant fully uncapped.
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I use the pancake analogy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5RapBjos3I
In addition to the above, remember that everyone eats their pancakes differently and that some pancakes are smaller than others and some are more tasty, but you gotta eat em' all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5RapBjos3I
In addition to the above, remember that everyone eats their pancakes differently and that some pancakes are smaller than others and some are more tasty, but you gotta eat em' all.
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OP, was the bottom part of your post about filling out the form for attendings and residents only related to this question? I ask because it would be silly to ask attendings and residents about the volume of work in med school as med school curriculums change and the ones who can give you the most accurate depiction of it are the ones who are currently in med school.
Assuming that you were addressing your question to all of us students, I'll go ahead and answer. At my med school, we have exams every 5 weeks or so. We have 20-25 hours of lecture per week, so we have 100 (or a little over) hours of lecture tested on each exam. Each lecture has anywhere from 40-60 powerpoint slides so you're talking an average of 5000 slides per exam and everything is fair game. The only way to master all that material is to stay on top of it and not get behind. You can't procrastinate and cram the way you can in high school or undergrand. So yes, the volume of work is intense, but the material isn't that difficult.
Assuming that you were addressing your question to all of us students, I'll go ahead and answer. At my med school, we have exams every 5 weeks or so. We have 20-25 hours of lecture per week, so we have 100 (or a little over) hours of lecture tested on each exam. Each lecture has anywhere from 40-60 powerpoint slides so you're talking an average of 5000 slides per exam and everything is fair game. The only way to master all that material is to stay on top of it and not get behind. You can't procrastinate and cram the way you can in high school or undergrand. So yes, the volume of work is intense, but the material isn't that difficult.
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Moving to Pre-Allopathic.
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He made it very clear: "Please fill out my Forum [sic] RESIDENTS AND ATTENDING S ONLY"
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And that was below the ____ line, which made me wonder if that was his sig and not part of his post. So, no, it wasn't "very clear" at all.
And now that I've done a search on the poster, I see that it is, in fact, part of his SIG, not a part of this particular post.
Here are some of his other posts with the same sig:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=774429
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=10279631&postcount=20
