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Making the most of MS4
Author: Amanda Xi
The Next Step – Updates From 4th Year
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| I never get sick of the beautiful views from 40,000 feet up in the air… |
Advice from my 3rd year of medical school
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| I had a moment of social media fame with Arianna Huffington and two phenomenal AMWA ladies. |
Life as an MS3
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| Early mornings in the hospital look something like this… |
On to the next chapter
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| Guess who now has a pager! |
The last ~2 months have been a wonderful mix of traveling, catching-up and reflection. I don’t think it’s relavent to share all of my adventures here, but I encourage anyone entering their second year of medical school to leave time post-boards to do something memorable. After all, the exam will eventually fade into oblivion as you progress forward in your career, but those memories won’t.
Day 281: Test day
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| I got really well acquainted with my Prometric center locker key. |
Day 260: As of late…
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| Even though I cut back on coffee, I cannot deny the positive influence caffeine has on my productivity… so I’m back to drinking coffee again [just a lot less than I was earlier in the semester]. |
Day 239: Countdown to Step 1
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| I keep track of how many days I have left until Step 1 on my whiteboard. Eeeek – the number is too small! |
Day 221: Updates & reader questions
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| We were awarded the Heller Outstanding Branch Award for the second consecutive year in a row! Go team! [Photo credit: Fatima Fahs, our branch’s new fearless leader] |
I apologize for the radio silence. The whole studying-for-boards excuse is already starting to sound like a broken record, but hey, it’s the truth. That, and keeping up with everything that has been going on in the past month [more on this later].
Day 198: Clerkship track rankings are in
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| A cut out screenshot of our track options for 3rd year clerkships. |