<p>Sorry for the very vague, un-convoluted question; yet I wanted to know how Med-School is generally how are the classes (is biochemistry a complete enigma) and do they correlate well with the actual medical practice (like operating on someone).
In addition, what is your favorite class and why? (If I was in it now it would probably and only be DNA research since I actually love reading about chromosomes and genome coronation).</p>
<p>Another tedious component of medical school is that you have to know the basis of what you are studying, nonetheless how does one use this research in vocation and career.</p>
<p>Thank you :)
I did not like reading reasoning books behind it since they were vastly opinionated and only offered a 1 person perspective.</p>
<p>Classes are fine. 2nd year correlates more than 1st year in many ways, but 1st year is designed to prepare you to best absorb what comes after. Ultimately, most of what you learn will become useless as a physician, but the point is to prepare you for all specialties as best as the school can so that you can choose later on. So you learn it all and take the pieces relevant to your practice with you. </p>
<p>My favorite class was probably anatomy. I really enjoyed learning it because it was something completely beyond my prior experiences. I also enjoyed cardiology, because I thought it was highly relevant, it had hands on learning components like auscultation, and it was much better taught than many sections. I thought endocrinology and renal were also very well taught and very enjoyable. Neuro was, at times, poorly taught but easily the topic that most interested me. I also was pleasantly surprised by rheumatology. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t call basic science tedious, though I know many of my classmates that might agree. I was a biochem major and so I enjoy pathways and underlying material. I find it useful for my better understanding of a topic in many cases. If you are interested in academic medicine then I think basic science medical knowledge is even more relevant, since you will using it in teaching and/or research.</p>
<p>DD thus far has enjoyed anatomy most of all, she has completed trunk & musculo-skeletal with head & neck to come. Her other classes were fine, too, I don’t recall which one she liked the best of the non-labs, but her favourite event of the week is the assigned work in the hospital shadowing a local doctor and doing exams. The ‘real’ stuff is fun, because it is so interesting.</p>
<p>The first two years will build the foundation for clinical practice but the third and fourth years of medical school are where you put everything together and actually apply what you’ve learned to patient care. The hours are longer in your third year (13 hours a day, 6 days a week, on call every 4th day) and at the end you still have to go home and study another 2-3 hours/night but I find the teaching to be more directly related to the practice of medicine.</p>