Posted: 5/8/2017 5:14:26 PM EDT
| Just how much of your time in Med School and your residency was spent studying? Like how many hours a day was your head in a book or reading some journal article or doing homework? |
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In residency we'd have Grand Rounds, Tumor Conference, Hand Conference, Spine Conference, X-ray Conference, Morbidity and Mortality conference, Journal Club, a morning lecture, in addition to attending these you also had to give the presentations, teach medical students, teach junior residents, complete research projects, bone up for the in-service exam. I would guess a good 10-15 hours per week in academic pursuits.
Med school is about 100% academic the first two years. How much time you spend depends on how quickly you learn. I'd skip all the lectures I could, get the lectures on tape (yes, actual tape!) and fast forward through useless stuff and listen at 2x speed to the good stuff. I'd get the scribe notes and kick butt on the exams. I'd say it was about the equivalent of a full time job. |
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In residency we'd have Grand Rounds, Tumor Conference, Hand Conference, Spine Conference, X-ray Conference, Morbidity and Mortality conference, Journal Club, a morning lecture, in addition to attending these you also had to give the presentations, teach medical students, teach junior residents, complete research projects, bone up for the in-service exam. I would guess a good 10-15 hours per week in academic pursuits. Med school is about 100% academic the first two years. How much time you spend depends on how quickly you learn. I'd skip all the lectures I could, get the lectures on tape (yes, actual tape!) and fast forward through useless stuff and listen at 2x speed to the good stuff. I'd get the scribe notes and kick butt on the exams. I'd say it was about the equivalent of a full time job. |
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How many hours of class per week? 12-18 like undergrads? My roommate was a medical student. There was some variance in their schedule, but I don't think they ever finished classes before 3:30 or 4 |
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In residency we'd have Grand Rounds, Tumor Conference, Hand Conference, Spine Conference, X-ray Conference, Morbidity and Mortality conference, Journal Club, a morning lecture, in addition to attending these you also had to give the presentations, teach medical students, teach junior residents, complete research projects, bone up for the in-service exam. I would guess a good 10-15 hours per week in academic pursuits. Med school is about 100% academic the first two years. How much time you spend depends on how quickly you learn. I'd skip all the lectures I could, get the lectures on tape (yes, actual tape!) and fast forward through useless stuff and listen at 2x speed to the good stuff. I'd get the scribe notes and kick butt on the exams. I'd say it was about the equivalent of a full time job. The surgery residents would scoff at the soft anesthesia residents because they got to go home post call, so they only worked 24 hours straight (anesthesia was always flat out for 24 hours, what with labor epidurals and stuff...anesthesia is hardcore in my book), and we would absolutely feel superior to the Family Practice types who seemed to take 1 in 6 call and never work for more than 12 hours at a time (and tell us how exhausted they were). It is a culture where we were proud of the abuse we could take and keep going. Like they say, the problem with every other night call is that you miss half the good cases. |