Introduction to my Third Year of Medical School

Hello! I'll be calling myself "Q" and this is the first post in (at least) a year-long project documenting my third year of medical school- also known as rotations! After two years of nonstop studying, I finally will be taking care of real patients in a variety of different settings. This blog is designed to show the transition from student to physician... Welcome!

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[Westlife344131420]

You are very helpful. I just wanna know what kind of Psychiatrist you wanna become? :) Thanks. I want to become forensic psychiatrist.

[DoctorishQ]

@Westlife344131420 Soooo.... even though I was about to start a psych rotation when I made this, I'm not going into psych. It's one of many required rotations for med school. I'm actually going into surgery, as it turns out.

[deckiiie763]

Hi, I'm a 14 year old girl and I'm very curious about medical school. It seems that everyone says it's hard to get in, and it probably is. Do you know around what kind of grade I should have in order to get in? In the 90%'s at least? Thanks!

[DoctorishQ]

@deckiiie763 I'll tell you this much: at the high-school level all you should be focusing on is getting into college. Your grades now matter exactly 0 in reference to getting into med school. Once you get to college, track down a graduate school advisor (any good university should have one available at no charge) and you can talk at length about grades and tests and extracurriculars. You deserve better than what I can give you here :)

[Iaosman001]

wow, you replied to almost everyone, very nice and humble

[DoctorishQ]

@Iaosman001 I try :)

[DoctorishQ]

@bomberfun1 LOL How jealous are you?! Good luck with that.

[DoctorishQ]

@mawaddah2010 Nope, don't mind! At my school we went by systems so cardiology, pulm, reproduction/ endocrine, etc. Everything about the system at once: anatomy, physiology, infections, neoplasms, pharm, etc. Aaaand that took two years. Third year is required rotations in various fields, fourth year is mostly elective rotations while you make your residency application then you graduate to residency, still in training but you get paid and people call you doctor :)

[Khan12078]

this stuff is hard my uncle did it, hes a surgeon now

[SuperHiddenaccount]

@atruex77 if you have a tough time making logical connections medical school is gonna be pretty rough. The exams have a lot of 2nd and 3rd order questions where you have to make that jump in logic. I would suggest you take a postbac program geared towards people who want to go to medical school. That way you can see what it's like without committing yourself to it.

[Iaosman001]

wow, you replied to almost everyone, very nice and humble