The Medical Thread

[BigRedBeta]

Wow, that is unfortunate not to have any lecture at all. I thought that everywhere had at least some lectures while on Medicine. Just seems like there's way too much information to learn while on this clerkship to do it all on your own.

We do 6 weeks on inpatient, 3 weeks of a selective (Pulm, Rheum, DEM, Geriatrics, etc - Cards isn't offered. I'm doing ER at the VA, which isn't a real ER, but it's good for learning bread and butter initial work-up type stuff) and then 3 weeks of outpatient clinic. Our outpatient clinic time is only for a half day each day, the other half being taken up by small group work on high-impact cases...essentially a more challenging PBL session with much more questioning/pimping.

I haven't started MKSAP yet, though I plan to. I've been using Blueprints but a lot of people in my class are using Step Up to Medicine. I personally like having actual text to read rather than just outlines, and blueprints is nice because each chapter/topic is only about 4-6 pages. Kind of depends on what you prefer, but the information seems pretty much the same. Case Files is extremely popular at my school (Nebraska) for all the clerkships.

We do 6 weeks on inpatient, 3 weeks of a selective (I'm doing ER at the VA, which isn't a real ER, but it's good for learning bread and butter initial work-up type stuff) and then 3 weeks of outpatient clinic. Our outpatient clinic time is only for a half day each day, the other half being taken up by small group work on high-impact cases...essentially a more challenging PBL session with much more questioning/pimping.

What school do you go to? What specialties are you thinking about? Where are you hoping to end up for Residency?

[cheerfulgreek]

I was watching Nightline and a few months ago they had a topic about student loans. Some people are going to med school to be doctors just so they can pay off their loans. For some it isn't what they truely want to do for a living. That's sad. School should be free.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a dolphin trainer at a zoo. I wanted to do that for a long time, after I saw a mother give birth to a calf at a zoo. I didn't change my my mind until I got to highschool. That's when I made the decision to be a vet.