A lot of people are surprised by the fact that the material in medical school is not much harder than it was in undergrad, the difference is only the quantity. I was the kind of student that read textbooks from cover to cover in undergrad, but when I got to medical school I discovered that […]
Studying for Clinicals with Online Med Ed
The day after I took Step 1, I was relieved. The majority of my studying was over, or so I thought. One week later, I realized that I would need to study during Years 3 and 4, the clinical years. But how–given that you spend all day with patients–do you have the time? Unlike for […]
Study without Studying: Welcome to Third-Year
Third-year is great because you are out in the hospital, seeing real patients, and you technically aren’t ‘studying’ as much as you did first and second-year. In reality, you probably are studying more. And retaining more. But it definitely is a whole lot less book time. All day long you are seeing patients and seeing […]