3RD YEAR MED STUDENTS!💡✨
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This year was like coming up for air…mostly😂🙌🏾 Here’s what I learned/what worked for me:
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🥗Meal prep. This year is packed with long hours, driving to various assignments, and still having to study each day. Still gotta eat. Prep your food one day each week and use those white coat pockets…for snacks😂🙌🏾
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⌛️Manage your time wisely. It may feel like you worked an entire day without wages…because you did!!😂😭🙌🏾BUT ya still gotta study once you get off. Determine how many q bank questions (I used UWorld, but I heard they wildin now?) you have to do per day to complete the subject matter and then still have time to review. Stick to your allotted number of daily questions as best as possible. You are practicing for STEP 2. You are practicing for your shelf exams.
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🖥Review. Try to review a mix of questions at least once a week so you don’t forget info from past rotations. Makes life easier when you go to study for STEP 2.
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😝Pimpin ain’t easy. Being asked questions on the spot and flailing around because you can’t recall (or sometimes just don’t know!) the answer. Happens to all of us. Do your due diligence to read up on the answer and go back to the person who asked you the following day. You are learning. You are growing. You are becoming. Dwell on the new information you learned and not the (potential) embarrassment. Press forward.
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👩🏾🦱👶🏾👨🏾Rehearse. Ask your residents (AFTER they are settled and have completed pertinent morning tasks) if they can review your presentation with you. They can help you gain insight into patient plans and polish your overall presentation for rounds.
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🙌🏾Enjoy. For many of you, this is your first time being this close, this involved, this helpful in patient care. And it’s great privilege. How many people can say they’ve had their hands inside someone’s chest cavity? Take it all in. You are almost there!
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I hope this helps! I go into more detail about 3rd Year–what I did vs. what I wish I had done for each specialty–here. You can shop my 3rd Year essentials below! And don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a blog post!
xoxo,
Photos by Tina Smith
