As I am getting settled into my last semester of second year I have boards eating away at the back of my brain. It is really strange since I have all of this school work to do and then I have to start thinking about adding on more studying so that I will be ready for boards this summer. Being that the boards covers SO MUCH information, I think that it would be very helpful if I started early and gather my materials as I go thru the semester so, when push comes to shove, I will be ready to suck back massive amounts of information near the end and rock the boards.
So, I start studying. I plan on doing an hour of Goljan pathology each day until I have made my way through all of his lectures. He is very entertaining and think that it will be a good way to start each of my days. This means that I will be forcing myself to get up one hour earlier each day so that I am forced to do my board prep before class starts at 8am. This also means that I have to go to be an hour earlier so that I don't run myself down. It might take a bit to get used to, but I am sure that it will be worth it in the end.
As far as classes go, they are going fine. I am at the point that no matter how much / little I study, I get the same mark (almost to the same percentage each time). This makes me really feel as if I have to focus less on grades and more on how much can I actually learn during each block. For example, we are doing endocrinology right now and I studied my butt off and got the same grade that I get in almost everything. But, I felt like I learned A LOT and hope that lots of this sticks around in my neurons until July of this year (and perhaps into the future too! lol). I think that the process is more important than the outcome during the didactic portions of med school. A's and B's won't make you a good doctor, but really knowing the information will!
Alas, I must get back to studying!
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