At one moment, your on top of the world. You think you know everything, you feel so smart and then you realize....you just mastered one lecture and you have three other lectures from today to master before you get to go to bed an do it again tomorrow.
The concepts are not the hardest part of medical school. It is the volume of information. Before starting medical school, I heard that it is like trying to take a drink of water from a fire hydrant, and I think that describes it very well. There is just so much information. It would be nice to have more hours in the day to relax and enjoy learning the information. Sometimes there is so much to do, that learning is a rush, "I've only got six hours before bed and I have to review five hours of class, go to lab and preview the lectures for tomorrow--eek!" The rush to learn isn't fun but the learning and information (for the most part) is interesting and fun.
I've known this for a while, but despite all the things I'm learning: I'm really no help to anyone yet! I just don't know enough--yet. I can tell you about normal cardiac function; however, if you have anything abnormal--you better look elsewhere because I don't know much about fixing problems, yet. I can diagnose people on t.v. medical shows (we are studying embryology and there is always a premature baby being born on t.v.), but I don't really know what a physician would do to help heal the person--yet.
The best way I can describe medical school to you is like a bumpy, winding Dominican road. You don't know what is coming around the next bend (literally there are many, many blind turns on the island roads) and there are ups and down. It isn't easy, which I knew, but I don't want to be anywhere else but in medical school.
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