For the majority of my preclinical years, I was an advocate of and beneficiary from the pass/fail curriculum. From the point of Step 1 dedicated period and now into my clerkships I have increasingly started to see the potential value-grades could have had for me as I was developing my knowledge base and habits. During […]
Something We Don’t Talk About
Everybody in medical school has the same secret. It’s something we never talk about. Something so intensely personal that we can barely even tell our closest friends. It eats at us like a purulent mass—we feel the pressure of it daily and somehow we know that the only way to be free of it is […]
One Test Down, Only Fourteen More to Go…
Eight days of classes, fourteen lectures, three dense self-study modules on the adrenergic and cholinergic systems and drugs, and who even knows how many hours of actual hardcore studying boiled down to a three hour, 106 question exam this morning. Early next week the computer wizards will magically spit out a simple number, my z-score, […]
