Last week I started my first week of school as a medical student. AZCOM's current program has changed in the past two years in order to ease the transition for those coming for their first year as they settle into their new life as a medical student. First year students begin two weeks before all other medical students (2nd through 4th year) and start with only two classes at first, Biochemistry and Histology. Gross Anatomy begins this week, and the rest of the classes start in September. These other classes include Clinical Medicine, OMM, Interdisciplinary Healthcare, and Human Behavior. Starting next Monday we have our first exam (Biochemistry), and then we have an exam every week thereafter, pretty much until the end of the quarter in November when we have finals. All in all the first quarter is 23.4 quarter credits. That will be a lot of classes once September hits.
At the moment I am enjoying having ample time to preview Biochem and Histology, attend lectures, review the material, and still have time to do extra reading. I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be my sleep schedule that suffers more than my academic schedule. We'll see how it goes.
Keep Breathing - Live
1 comments:
You'll figure out how to make it work! I choose early on to not stay up cramming at night and protect my sleep time...because of that, I had to change the way I studied SO much from the way I did it in college...hence why I started skipping lectures. Brent on the other hand STARTED going to lectures (way different than at GCU :o). You will get a pattern into place by like mid-October, and that's probably the way you'll study the whole rest of med school. You'll adapt, even though it seems impossible to be able to handle it all. You CAN do this! Let me know if you need anything. Love ya buddy!
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