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Originally Posted by SoEnchanting
Hey there! I am proud to say that I just completed the first week of my 4th year of medical school! I would say I did decent on the IM shelf in Feb., but not as well as I would have liked. I just don't think 8 weeks is enough time to get everything solid. I had 6 weeks of Pediatrics after that, which was much crazier than I had anticipated. And then I finished the year with Ob/gyn - by far the busiest rotation I've had this year. I dunno if it was bad luck (or good depending on how you looked at it), or whatever, but my call nights were insane. It was a lot of fun though, and I agree the mix of clinic and surgery time was nice.
I'm on another 4 week rotation now, with all inpatient medicine. There is just something about 4th year rotations that make them better! I took the CS a few weeks ago in Atlanta - it seemed too easy to be true, so I'll hold my comments on that until I get my score back. Taking the CK in July, so that's pretty much my focus of the next few weeks. That and figuring out LORs, personal statement, ERAS stuff - man, can you believe graduation is just over the horizon!
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Six weeks of peds? Yikes - that's a lot to learn in so short a period.
I am looking forward towards OB a little bit. I had a couple deliveries while I was on family so I have some idea what to expect. Plus the resident on that service is AWESOME, so that'll be good.
I plan on taking both CK and CS in November, I've scheduled a month working with our student run clinic for that four weeks, so with only 8 clinic nights the whole month, I figured it'd be a great time. I'm waiting to hear from an away rotation at the moment which will totally alter my schedule if I don't get it. Considering it's in August, it's super frustrating that I haven't gotten a response one way or the other yet...
Other than that, hard to believe that I have less than 3 weeks of 3rd year left. Looking back it's been a really crazy year, and it's unbelievable the amount of stuff I've learned (and forgotten)...but it's definitely been a year that's reaffirmed my desire to be a doctor.