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You guys make it sound like...
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If you are accepted into med school, you should be able to make it. ~96% of med students who are accepted graduate, and those that don't often have non-academic reasons (personal) for not graduating.
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Medschool is not the hardest thing on the planet. If you sit long enough in front of a book or two, you will do fine.
The only thing that is a bit difficult is the 30 second/question anatomy practical where you are not allowed to touch anything
The only thing that is a bit difficult is the 30 second/question anatomy practical where you are not allowed to touch anything
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I would also recommend not eating anything that will upset your stomach before a lab practical (i.e. Mexican). You CANNOT leave a timed practical, even with a gurgling abdomen....😱
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Everyone else's lab practical is multiple choice like ours right?!?! 30 seconds doesn't seem that bad....
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Haha, idq1, I can't tell the diff. between a trachea and an esophagus unless I can palpate them. As I have discovered, much to my dismay... 🙁
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Wow -- a multiple choice lab practical?? That would have been a piece of cake! Back in my day, my anatomy class had no multiple choice questions (except for the written portion of the final exam). The practicals were all free-form answers, plus our midterm was an oral exam.
While anatomy was the most time consuming preclinical class that I had, the subject matter is not difficult. You just have to have the attention span to sit down and memorize everything. Almost all the preclinical classes in medical school are like that -- pure rote memorization. The clinical years are more difficult in that they require integration of the facts you have learned, as well as some good old general common sense (the latter of which is difficult if not impossible to teach).
It doesn't take a genius to understand material in medical school. The difficult part about it is the volume of material you have to learn. Like ckent said, the vast majority of people who get into medical school end up graduating. Med schools put a lot of resources into training their students -- they don't like to kick them out often.
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Our lab practical was not multiple choice, but our written tests were. (For the most part. Our histo exam was not multiple choice. Anything where you had to visually recognize something, in other words, was not.)
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50 items, 1 minute per item, non-multiple-choice lab practical in the morning and a 70 question multiple choice exam in the afternoon for anatomy over here. The practical was a little annoying, the written exam - not so bad at all.
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surf - seems we are lucky! 🙂
although it's entirely possible that i could change my mind post-midterm!!! 🙁
although it's entirely possible that i could change my mind post-midterm!!! 🙁
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A multiple choice practical, that's nuts! i'm jealous.
I'm writing to georgetown to suggest they eliminate the multiple-guess practicals.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE PRACTICALS!!!!!!!!
I am soooooo jealous! I must whine a little bit, but not only are our exams fill in the blank, but SPELLING COUNTS!!!!!!!!
We also have 60+ questions. Crazy stressful. We just had our first exam (worth 10%) and I failed the practical so badly. It was really depressing. All of those who are just starting, anatomy is not as easy as you might think. Yes, to a certain degree it is just memorization, but it is also recall under enormous stress. You don't have time to sit and reason it out. You just have to see it and recognize it. Also, if your school does anatomy by region, make sure you quiz yourself all over and don't just go region to region...it will look different in the practical than when you were going over it in a particular region section....the arm will be twisted a different way...they will show you the artery/nerve posterior when you had studied from the anterior.
Moral of the story: use lots of variation in how you view things and review, review, review!
Sorry...I feel the need to warn other innocent lambs 🙂
I am soooooo jealous! I must whine a little bit, but not only are our exams fill in the blank, but SPELLING COUNTS!!!!!!!!
We also have 60+ questions. Crazy stressful. We just had our first exam (worth 10%) and I failed the practical so badly. It was really depressing. All of those who are just starting, anatomy is not as easy as you might think. Yes, to a certain degree it is just memorization, but it is also recall under enormous stress. You don't have time to sit and reason it out. You just have to see it and recognize it. Also, if your school does anatomy by region, make sure you quiz yourself all over and don't just go region to region...it will look different in the practical than when you were going over it in a particular region section....the arm will be twisted a different way...they will show you the artery/nerve posterior when you had studied from the anterior.
Moral of the story: use lots of variation in how you view things and review, review, review!
Sorry...I feel the need to warn other innocent lambs 🙂
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if you are the type of person who don't mind reading medical books written by doctors who make you read paragraphs of nonsense before getting to the point, if you can study religiously at least 4 hours a day without getting burned out after 2 months of class, if you can stomach classmates who talk about medicine 24/7...
medicine should be a breeze. in my opinion about 20% of my class actually love studying, studying for the sake of getting good scores in the exam. and that's where they get most of their satisfaction.
my grades are poor, but ive always managed to pull it up in the finals. im the laziest person i know in my class. i get burned out every once in a while, usually happens when i'm not having enough fun outside school.
i'm not really sure if lazy is the right word to call it. i mean, life in med school, all the studying and pressure to pass exams, is not natural, not physiologic.
alright i forgot the point of all that i was saying. 😀
studying daily for so long already, i forgot, what's the point in all that i was doing. to become a doctor yes. and i know i really wanna become a doctor, more than i wanna become an engineer or anything. but it just don't feel that way anymore, knowing what you want and actualy wanting what you want are two different things.
the point is. there is no point. what i've learend so far, is that Time is really more valuable than power, money or anything. and when i do become a doctor, i will see to it have time to spend, not just money.
now lets get back to studying. med is hard but hard times pass by. good luck on your choice of profession krevelli
medicine should be a breeze. in my opinion about 20% of my class actually love studying, studying for the sake of getting good scores in the exam. and that's where they get most of their satisfaction.
my grades are poor, but ive always managed to pull it up in the finals. im the laziest person i know in my class. i get burned out every once in a while, usually happens when i'm not having enough fun outside school.
i'm not really sure if lazy is the right word to call it. i mean, life in med school, all the studying and pressure to pass exams, is not natural, not physiologic.
alright i forgot the point of all that i was saying. 😀
studying daily for so long already, i forgot, what's the point in all that i was doing. to become a doctor yes. and i know i really wanna become a doctor, more than i wanna become an engineer or anything. but it just don't feel that way anymore, knowing what you want and actualy wanting what you want are two different things.
the point is. there is no point. what i've learend so far, is that Time is really more valuable than power, money or anything. and when i do become a doctor, i will see to it have time to spend, not just money.
now lets get back to studying. med is hard but hard times pass by. good luck on your choice of profession krevelli
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I suffered during my pre clinical years. The material was just too boring. I managed however to avoid getting lost inside oversized textbooks by using exam orientated review books (like BRS and stuff) and thus my grades didnt suffer. When the clinical stuff came along I was transformed. Interacting with patients motivated studying and made it easier and even fun, I suddenly became one of these students talking about medicine 24/7.
Plus the medical profession offers a variety or carriers /specialties making it highly unlikely for someone graduating from medicine not to find an appealing field. So I wouldnt worry about having what it takes.
Medicine can make you fall in love with it in the process. The only tricky part in my opinion is that one should think of medicine more as a life and less as a profession.
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We just went through a practical last week, and it WAS extremely frustrating not to be able to move muscles or located insertions completely--and it was not multiple choice (although I might mention that to faculty 😀).
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you're spoiled rotten babe 😉 but then again, I don't feel like I would ever really learn the material if I knew it was multiple choice. when we have our 2nd year quizzing us during lab, we reguritate the answers on our own anyway.
but for those who have to spell it right, I'm sorry 🙁
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