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very much, is that we were busy reading all the damn time.
i mostly agree with what the dude said. feel like we spent a lot of the first year f&*(ing around, although i do think we learned nearly all of physio really really well. but that's not enough to have gotten out of a whole year. here are the places where i diverge, just as another opinion, no judgment intended. i've never liked review books. never much used them and am glad for it. i took the kaplan board review in the month before the boards and then had a little over a week to self-study before i took them. i thought spending 2 years reading guyton, robbins, goodman and gilman, mark's, etc.etc.etc. cover to cover (in the case of guyton and robbins, much of it more than once or twice) and then delving into the more current literature was a good way to go for that period. i wanted to be focused on really learning medicine. i wanted to avoid conflating that with studying for the boards. then classes ended, and i put learning medicine on hold for a month and switched to concentrating on passing the boards (with kaplan liveprep as my guide -- it was really useful for organizing and streamlining reviewing, but would have been too superficial a substitute for learning what i feel like i need for knowing medicine). i feel like it hepled categorize all the reading i'd done for two years, and told me what to flash-memorize just for the exam. then i took the boards, and have switched gears back to studying medicine. the boards are not medicine. they are the boards. and unlike nvshelat, my usmle was out of left field. it can happen.
dpc. what to say while still under the shadow of not yet having a degree granted...hahaha
i'll say this. i would have gone crazy dealing with lecture based, personally. the autonomy was a blessing and a curse. i think it's a very personal thing how you react to it and what you make of it and if you don't have a lot of self-awareness and a harsh inner critic prodding you on you likely will not get enough out of it. wow that was a run-on sentence. as a digression, i used to be a great writer. med school has killed it. anyway, the one great thing i got out of dpc was learning a deeper sense of tolerance and gaining the ability (with some growing pains) to keep my mouth shut when necessary.i passed both boards and i feel really comfortable in the hospital. but i keep running up against little dark alleys of knowledge that i didn't even know were there. because i had no roadmap to know they were there. and, yes, a lot of them are neuro and genetics related.
best of luck to you.
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