Shelf exams are the exams that you take during 3rd-year after completing your core rotations. You have shelf exams in internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, surgery, psychiatry, obstetrics & gynecology, emergency medicine (optional) and osteopathic medicine (if you’re an osteopathic medical student). These exams are standardized exams (they never stop). For osteopathic students, the shelf […]
How to know what to know: effective preparation for the wards
Before the start of any clerkship (rotation), and throughout its duration, I spend some time thinking about how best to prepare. But for what? How does one best get ready for a month of neurology? Or medicine? Or pediatrics? What are you supposed to know and do?! Here are the five general categories of preparation for […]
