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I am on my first hardcore inpatient rotation. I did really well on Step 1 and I scored >95th percentile on my previous two shelves, but I continuously feel like I am never asked any questions that I know. Should I know about how to manage electrolytes with fluids or what type and rate of fluid certain patients should be getting? I am getting really nervous because I am continually at a loss for almost all of the pimping questions on management, and I feel like I'm expected to know it.
Am I? If not, when does this transition occurs and how do you learn it? Im starting to think maybe its ok for me to not know and this is just how you learn it. Slowly, painfully, and by immersion. Unfortunately, my team makes me feel like I should know many of these things. Part of that may be due to lack of awareness of when the year switched and med students are MS3's and not MS4's. I just don't really see those nitty gritty daily management details in UWorld or Step up to Medicine.
Am I? If not, when does this transition occurs and how do you learn it? Im starting to think maybe its ok for me to not know and this is just how you learn it. Slowly, painfully, and by immersion. Unfortunately, my team makes me feel like I should know many of these things. Part of that may be due to lack of awareness of when the year switched and med students are MS3's and not MS4's. I just don't really see those nitty gritty daily management details in UWorld or Step up to Medicine.