Comments on: The 4 year race http://www.medrants.com/archives/2539 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Enrico http://www.medrants.com/archives/2539/comment-page-1#comment-73999 Enrico Fri, 07 Oct 2005 06:34:21 +0000 http://medrants.com/?p=2539#comment-73999 I found it great (I posted an excerpt on my site, in fact). As an MS1, it's clearly a time of adjustment, confusion and frustration, and to some degree, disillusionment. In pre-clinics, we get just enough of a taste of what we will be doing with basic physical exams and patient history techniques (I satisfy further curiosity with my Bates text), only to return to the lecture hall to endure the inexplicably convoluted development of the embryonic cardiovascular system. There are so many times where we wonder, "When is this all going to gel?" because we get so much information from such seemlingly disparate subjects. I can only hope the art of sifting through hundreds of pages of text to extract the most relevant information improves over time. Many times I feel like I'm treading water at the edge of a whirlpool. Thanks for your contributions. --Enrico C. (American MS1 in Mexico) I found it great (I posted an excerpt on my site, in fact). As an MS1, it’s clearly a time of adjustment, confusion and frustration, and to some degree, disillusionment. In pre-clinics, we get just enough of a taste of what we will be doing with basic physical exams and patient history techniques (I satisfy further curiosity with my Bates text), only to return to the lecture hall to endure the inexplicably convoluted development of the embryonic cardiovascular system. There are so many times where we wonder, “When is this all going to gel?” because we get so much information from such seemlingly disparate subjects. I can only hope the art of sifting through hundreds of pages of text to extract the most relevant information improves over time. Many times I feel like I’m treading water at the edge of a whirlpool.

Thanks for your contributions.

–Enrico C.
(American MS1 in Mexico)

]]> By: Colin http://www.medrants.com/archives/2539/comment-page-1#comment-73994 Colin Fri, 07 Oct 2005 04:01:16 +0000 http://medrants.com/?p=2539#comment-73994 Very nice, Dr. Centor. You sound very much like our Dean of Students: "Work hard, find some time to enjoy yourself outside of medical school, maintain some hobbies, and stay in good physical condition." The stay in good physical condition has been especially stressed. However, I think I've put on weight in my 2 months here...I thought the freshman fifteen was an undergrad thing. I have a piece of advice, mostly for pre-meds. It is very specific, but if the med school you want to go to doesn't require biochem as a pre-req (and there are still a number that don't), take it in undergrad anyway! Especially if your undergrad offers a more medically geared course. Back to Lippincott's Illustrated Review of Biochemistry. Very nice, Dr. Centor.

You sound very much like our Dean of Students: “Work hard, find some time to enjoy yourself outside of medical school, maintain some hobbies, and stay in good physical condition.”

The stay in good physical condition has been especially stressed. However, I think I’ve put on weight in my 2 months here…I thought the freshman fifteen was an undergrad thing.

I have a piece of advice, mostly for pre-meds. It is very specific, but if the med school you want to go to doesn’t require biochem as a pre-req (and there are still a number that don’t), take it in undergrad anyway! Especially if your undergrad offers a more medically geared course.

Back to Lippincott’s Illustrated Review of Biochemistry.

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