To assist your complete understanding of my medical school experience, I have prepared the following flow chart detailing the way I feel before taking an exam, immediately after the exam, the grade result and what I think on my way home from the exam. Granted, we usually don't get the grades until weeks after, but I'm the blogger, so I'll present the information the way I want to.
I bet you want to know how I felt after each of my clerkship exams... Even if you don't want to know, there's a reason I want to tell you:
- Pediatrics: Blue-Green-Orange-Red
- Family Medicine: Orange-Red-Blue-Blue
- Medicine: Green-Blue-Green-Orange
- Surgery: Blue-Orange-Orange-Orange
- Ob/Gyn: Blue/Green --> The exam is tomorrow! --> Green
- Psych: Ask me in September
The point of this little exercise is to indicate how poor I am at predicting:
- Readiness for an exam
- Whether I knew the answers
- What grade I'd get on the exam
- My mood after taking the exam
Careful readers will notice that I haven't aced many exams. Don't worry - that doesn't mean I haven't done well in medical school. Depending on the clerkship, the exam consists of a variable contribution to the final grade. And I don't REALLY hate medical school. SOmetimes I think that I do, however.
I bet you want to know how I felt after each of my clerkship exams... Even if you don't want to know, there's a reason I want to tell you:
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