What Is The Hardest System In Med School

[Ifellinapothole]

wondering your all's opinion

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[DOCTORSAIB]

wondering your all's opinion

Cardio. By a mile.

 

[DOtobe]

Cardio. By a mile.

Agreed. Cardio kicked my ass over and over again.

 

[futuredo32]

Cardio is kickin' my ass right now! Never have I studied so much (and failed so much!) NOTHING is as hard as cardio!

 

[ShyRem]

What makes cardio so difficult?

 

[TheFish005]

I disagree. I did well in cardio, but struggled through neuro.

 

[glorytaker]

I thought cardio wasn't hard at all. I had to pick between Immuno/Heme and Neuro and I went with neuro because we had a crappy neuro instructor. 🙁

 

[BklynWill]

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[BklynWill]

I'm another cardio-liker/ neuro-disliker. Maybe it's a personality type(?)

 

[raptor5]

The system you are least interested in seems to be the hardest.

 

[surrender903]

hmmm... i found neuro phys a little more challenging than cardio phys, i found cardio a breath of fresh air after what we went through at PCOM with the harshness of cell and tissue.

neuro being in the dead of winter, with it being long, just is more of a marathon.

ill give you my final verdict after next thursday

 

[Shodddy18]

I hated psych. Dont know if it was because it was hard or because I was too bored to pay attention... except for a few of those interesting sexual disorders!!! Yay Frotteurism!!!

 

[Idiopathic]

Uhhhh...renal, anyone? Even moreso if its renal/GI together.

 

[71263]

Uhhhh...renal, anyone? Even moreso if its renal/GI together.

I kinda liked renal, maybe because the faculty who taught it was amazing. But yeah, I definitely HATED GI. Memorizing all those transporters and pathways was truly a pain. And dont even get me started on bile...

Then again, I have yet to take neuro. Ill get back to you all in a week about that one.

 

[Nate]

I am loving Neuro, loved cardio too, GI was boring and renal was a pain but I absolutely hated Pulmo, I am surprised that I am the only one so far.

 

[DOtobe]

I just couldn't get cardio. My brain just wasn't capable of comprehending most of it.

My favorites were probably endocrine and GI. I liked endocrine so much I even considered becoming and endocrinologist, until I did an endocrine rotation and was bored out of my mind... 😴

 

[TheFish005]

I'm actually considering endocrine too... haven't started rotations yet, though.

 

[docjolly]

Neuro, hands down 🙁

 

[gagolden]

Pulmonary by a mile. Cardio/Renal I thought made sence. Neuro is a distant second

 

[HunterGatherer]

Wondering what makes neuro and cardio so difficult? Amount of information, the amount of integrated systems involved, lack of quality review material, not enough time spent on the system,etc.?

What makes cardio so difficult?

 

[Ifellinapothole]

Wondering what makes neuro and cardio so difficult? Amount of information, the amount of integrated systems involved, lack of quality review material, not enough time spent on the system,etc.?

I'm in the middle of Neuro and haven't had cardio yet. But, I think it's the combo of knowing the neuroanatomy, the minutiae of the brain, and at NYCOM they throw psychiatry in there for fun, which really blows as far as I am concerned.

 

[Sundarban1]

dewey decimal

 

[futuredo32]

I was so surprised to see that not everyone thought cardio was extremely difficult. Perhaps a lot of it depends on the school, the instructors. I think that to a certain extent, the instructors can make a class more difficult by the amount of minutia they expect you to learn, the difficulty of the questions on exams, etc. For me, there is too much minutia. I didn't hate cario before, but I do now🙁.

 

[Dr.MISHKA D.O.]

In order of crapatude

Neuro>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Pulm>Heme=onc>endocrine.

All rest super easy. Cardio Super, Super interesting and Easy. It's just a pump! 😛

Best Wishes

The Mish

 

[OSUdoc08]

Uhhhh...renal, anyone? Even moreso if its renal/GI together.

I agree. Renal was the most difficult for me. Too much chemistry for my taste.

 

[oudoc08]

Surprised I was the only one that picked Rheumatology. They are truly diseases of confusion and frustration. A plethora of non-specific symptoms and you're supposed to somehow arrive at a diagnosis which may have ten different presentations in ten different patients.

Ex: SLE

 

[cabinbuilder]

Cardio, hateful beyond explaination, HATE EKG's, Hated the prof more
Neuro - cried every day, the path saved me though
Heme/Onc - all the different leukemias ugh.

 

[Kevbot]

I am loving Neuro, loved cardio too, GI was boring and renal was a pain but I absolutely hated Pulmo, I am surprised that I am the only one so far.

Nate and I are in the same class. I breezed through Pulm but kidney kicked my ass. To each thier own I suppose. But I do agree with him that Neuro is the best, prob because we have an awesome prof for it.

 

[shamrokme]

I don't know about renal and cardio...those are 2nd year for us, but I've heard they both suck. I'm in neuro right now and getting my ass kicked so I vote for neuro at the moment....evil system to start with....

 

[futuredo32]

After reading that heme-onc was the hardest course for some, I really think it is so dependent on who is teaching. Heme-onc at MSUCOM was like 20 lectures total for the entire course. It was very straight forward. Cardio at MSUCOM was 100 lectures, tons of mandatory labs, a case write-up, an ethics paper. It was brutal.

 

[subtle1epiphany]

After reading that heme-onc was the hardest course for some, I really think it is so dependent on who is teaching. Heme-onc at MSUCOM was like 20 lectures total for the entire course. It was very straight forward. Cardio at MSUCOM was 100 lectures, tons of mandatory labs, a case write-up, an ethics paper. It was brutal.

I'm assuming you mean 2nd year, cardio was a bit lacking in physio 1st year. I say this being quite partial to cardio and interested in cardiology, so I'm quite biased. I've heard about Dr. Siew and I'm really looking forward to cardio 2yr.
I've gotta agree with the fact that the hardest is that in which you're least interested. I loved cardio and did well, it just made sense. Same with endocrine (a surprise), and immuno even. Reproductive physiology was a killer for me, I just care very little. It's interesting, but not so much as cardio or nephro.
The other thing is that I'm talking about a first year physiology course based on systems...so not much path or other parts that are present in the whole curriculum. Just my bits.

 

[futuredo32]

I'm assuming you mean 2nd year, cardio was a bit lacking in physio 1st year. I say this being quite partial to cardio and interested in cardiology, so I'm quite biased. I've heard about Dr. Siew and I'm really looking forward to cardio 2yr.
I've gotta agree with the fact that the hardest is that in which you're least interested. I loved cardio and did well, it just made sense. Same with endocrine (a surprise), and immuno even. Reproductive physiology was a killer for me, I just care very little. It's interesting, but not so much as cardio or nephro.
The other thing is that I'm talking about a first year physiology course based on systems...so not much path or other parts that are present in the whole curriculum. Just my bits.

Yes second year cardio. It is NOTHING like the little bit of cardio you get in physiology. Cardio in physio was nothing horrible, nothing great either. There are really no words to adequately describe cardio as a systems course.
Dr.Siew is an experience, to say the very least. Endocrine with Dr.Kaufmann was so great in phys. Second year repro is better than it was in phys because you don't have a nice, but oh SO boring woman standing at a podium reading her lecture notes word for word. There is very little histopathology in second year repro as well.
I hope you like second year cardio as much as you anticipate. (I HATED IT!)