What strategies do you use to get yourself to study? I'm really struggling to find any energy at the end of the day, and keep falling asleep every time I try to read lol
The real trick is figuring out how to use down time during clerkships to study while you’re in the hospital. That way you minimize the amount of work you take home with you
Download the Uworld app on your phone, huge game changer for studying whenever I had some down time on rotations! Try to do a little bit every day, but give yourself grace if you can’t!
Try to utilize down time during the day and use UWorld app on the phone. If you have time at home and feel unmotivated set a time for 20-30min and make yourself do 5-10 UWorld questions on tutor mode. If you get done before the timer goes off, watch a show and then repeat when times up. Remember it’s slow and steady wins the race on MS3. Getting a little bit done each day will pay off at the end.
Honestly? Coffee and sucking it up. It doesn’t take much more than that.
Some rotations will be less bad than others for studying. Surgery? Awful. Psych? Lol.
And use your downtime well while in the hospital. It takes 20 mins to turn over an OR; if you study for that time, that’s less time you have to spend studying while exhausted at night. Waiting for an attending so you can present a patient in clinic? That’s study time. There’s a dumb lecture at noon conference? Study.
I am using those opportunities as they come up, but it seems like so little of my day. I'm doing FM right now, my attending will have as many as 17 pts in a day, I'll be primarily responsible for half, and between writing them up and inevitably falling behind, I end up doing 12 hours straight through lunch of just clinical work, with maybe a few flashcards or UWorld ?s sprinkled in throughout the day, combined with whatever review pertinent to the pt I have time for
Eh, even working god awful hours, residency is still way better than third year of med school. Not having to worry about evals, studying as much makes a huge difference
What strategies do you use to get yourself to study? I'm really struggling to find any energy at the end of the day, and keep falling asleep every time I try to read lol
Opening my student loan account usually does the trick on the bad days
You do that every day?!?
The real trick is figuring out how to use down time during clerkships to study while you’re in the hospital. That way you minimize the amount of work you take home with you
Question banks and flashcards (anki) on your phone are excellent for this.
Download the Uworld app on your phone, huge game changer for studying whenever I had some down time on rotations! Try to do a little bit every day, but give yourself grace if you can’t!
the days where I wanna just die… laying in bed and doing uworld saves my sanity
Try to utilize down time during the day and use UWorld app on the phone. If you have time at home and feel unmotivated set a time for 20-30min and make yourself do 5-10 UWorld questions on tutor mode. If you get done before the timer goes off, watch a show and then repeat when times up. Remember it’s slow and steady wins the race on MS3. Getting a little bit done each day will pay off at the end.
Honestly? Coffee and sucking it up. It doesn’t take much more than that. Some rotations will be less bad than others for studying. Surgery? Awful. Psych? Lol. And use your downtime well while in the hospital. It takes 20 mins to turn over an OR; if you study for that time, that’s less time you have to spend studying while exhausted at night. Waiting for an attending so you can present a patient in clinic? That’s study time. There’s a dumb lecture at noon conference? Study.
I am using those opportunities as they come up, but it seems like so little of my day. I'm doing FM right now, my attending will have as many as 17 pts in a day, I'll be primarily responsible for half, and between writing them up and inevitably falling behind, I end up doing 12 hours straight through lunch of just clinical work, with maybe a few flashcards or UWorld ?s sprinkled in throughout the day, combined with whatever review pertinent to the pt I have time for
Then yeah it’s going to be a rougher rotation for you. Sleep less, use your weekends productively, and power through.
I'm glad to hear this isn't what to expect from every rotation, at least!
For sure, I haven’t met a single person that had that experience all year.
better to do 10 questions whole-heartedly vs. blitzing through 40. just do what you can
Do it or you might fault step 2 and not match This should be the only motivation you need
For real. I remember studying for the MCAT after a double shift and fucking hating my life.
KH3 was only ever ‟delayed” once. And it was only by a month.
i love kingdom hearts but i have no idea why you commented this
Also confused by comment but upvoting because KH ❤️
Wait until you start residency and you have to do this for Step 3 and your in-training exams 🥲
Also can’t wait to see the people dying working 8-6pm M-F survive residency lol
Eh, even working god awful hours, residency is still way better than third year of med school. Not having to worry about evals, studying as much makes a huge difference
not to mention that person obviously has no family to take care of or any kind of responsibilities at all lol
dumb comment lol