What should I pre-study for med school?

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Read how drs think by genome groopman. Should be mandatory for anyone in medicine.

 

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Read how drs think by genome groopman. Should be mandatory for anyone in medicine.

Ok, that's a freakin awesome autocorrect!!


Should read jerome

 

[Chip N Sawbones]

Wow. I had no idea I was kicking such a hornet's nest with this subject. I'll read How Doctors Think. I've already read all the other non-textbook books people have suggested. I'm still going to go ahead and read a little anatomy and biochemistry. Ever since I saw Good Will Hunting I wanted to learn organic on my own like Will did. I missed my chance there, but I figure biochem will be just as good. If I'm wrong and I can't learn anything useful on my own, I'm only out fifteen bucks for an older edition of the textbook. I'm thinking of this more as a hobby than as serious study time.

 

[wholeheartedly]

I won't hold it against you. I just had to talk myself out of buying 'the Feynman lectures' books a few days ago, just for fun. I really should study for the mcat instead.

 

[QofQuimica]

It's not a hornet's nest. It's kind of like watching someone driving a train off the cliff. You warn them, hey, there's a cliff ahead! Then you're having them insist that no, there isn't a cliff there. Or at least, there might be a cliff there for everyone else, but there isn't a cliff there for *them.*

Here is your projected time line:

Dec 15: Chip asks for advice concerning prestudying for medical school.
Dec 15-Dec 20: a dozen residents and medical students tell him not to prestudy. Chip argues and buys a book for biochem/anatomy/whatever other boring medical subject you'd like to insert here
Dec 21: Chip looks at the TOC of the book and thinks, wow, this will be interesting!
Dec 22-23: Chip reads one chapter out of book, thinks, that's not so bad
Dec 24-25: Christmas break!
Dec 26: Chip thinks, hmm, should read chapter 2, but...what was that on the internet? Maybe I'll re-watch that video of the eagle snatching the baby in Canada
Dec 31: wow, where did this whole week go? Bottoms up!
Jan 1: New Years resolution: read a chapter a day
Jan 2: Chip forces himself through chapter 2. God this s*** is boring.
Jan 3: Chip reads two pages of chapter 3 before starting to bang his head on the wall
Jan 4: Chip figures, I've worked hard so far. I deserve today off.
Jan 5: Ok, I'm starting up again tomorrow for sure.
Jan 10: Where did that book go? Aww, f*** it.

Fall of 2013: some other premed who thinks they are going to get a leg up on med school posts on SDN asking for advice about what to pre-study. Chip tells them not to do it, and then gets surprised when the premed won't take his advice.

😉 😀

 

[dsoz]

I won't hold it against you. I just had to talk myself out of buying 'the Feynman lectures' books a few days ago, just for fun. I really should study for the mcat instead.

I had those for a while... My mom bought them for me because I was teaching physics... They sat on my shelf collecting dust. I think I read one chapter out of the middle and was thinking to myself the whole time how booooooring it was. The subjects that I already knew were too simple, and those subjects that I know less about were too complex to follow along.

I finally gave the set to Goodwill last summer when we were cleaning out the basement in preparation to having to move to go to med school. Now that I have been accepted to my state school and don't have to move, we have a half-way cleaned out basement so I can fill it up with some more crap. ha ha.

I love the timeline given by Q. It is EPIC!

I am glad that I have my job to keep me busy until mid June, then one month to get my act together until med school starts in mid August. I don't have the time to sit around and contemplate whether I am going to pre-study anatomy or biochemistry or anything else.

dsoz

 

[Chip N Sawbones]

Nice timeline there. I think it may be moot, though. I just showed my house to a family who spent the whole time raving about how wonderful it is. They basically told me they were going to make a really, really good offer which I will of course accept. The whole idea of reading biochem and such was based on my being stuck here for the winter with nothing to do. Now it looks like I'll be able to escape -45 degree temperatures, and I will indeed have better things to do than reading ahead.