http://www.talkingscience.org TalkingScience is a non-profit organization focus on educating the general public on science through new media. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:29:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our friend Rosalee Washington asked, “Should I major in something that has to do with science if I want to become a doctor?” This is a really good question. Do all doctors need the same skills? The same talents? Have a certain personality?]]> http://www.talkingscience.org/2010/03/doctors-are-not-only-scientists/ From the SATs to the MCAT and the Boards exams, I’ve been a career student. Tests have become a way of life, in a way. (Is that sad?) From multiple-choice to essay to true/false to oral exams, tests have been the predictable pacemakers of my career from high school through college, from college to medical school and graduate school.]]> http://www.talkingscience.org/2010/03/testing-patients/ http://www.talkingscience.org/2010/02/know-your-waterways/ I have only one more test left in med school!
Well, I should qualify that: it’s the last test of my pre-clinical years. (The first two years are called pre-clinical because we don’t see much of the clinical side, because we don’t really know too much.) So, for two years we sit mostly in lectures, labs, small groups, and the library, learning the basics of human biology and illness. The cycle is predictable: three weeks of cramming, test, repeat. In our last block Life Cycle (our curriculum is organized by topic or organ system), we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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