#pre med

[likeshestoleit]

it seems I only post at the end of each block but I KILLED my endocrine/reproduction final and I’m still really excited about it :)

we started psychiatry this week, and I’m freaking out a bit because it’s my last block of pre-clinicals. It’s so difficult to believe I’ve made it this far!

[kitkatstu-dies]

Day 79/100 [02/02/2025]

Finished my biomechanics worksheet, kinetic anatomy work, & genetics homework!

Studied for my Immunology Quiz

Took notes for immunology & organic chemistry

[s0llucetomnibus]

Studyblr Introduction!!

My name is Michael, I'm 20 years old and starting my pre-med/biomedical sciences degree this August. I've always wanted to be a doctor but due to financial reasons I settled on becoming an EMT straight out of high school and that's what I've done for the past two years. However, I want more out of medicine so I'm taking the leap and pursuing med school with the intent of becoming a trauma surgeon, that could always change though! My end goal with all of this is to volunteer with Médecins sans frontières (Doctors without Borders) because I really admire the work they do. Here's some more about me:

-Some of my hobbies include running, wrestling/Brazilian jiu jitsu, Muay Thai, chess (we don't talk about my rating), cooking, hobby entomology, learning Spanish currently, and reading

-I mostly read classics but I've been venturing out of my comfort zone a little bit recently, I'm always open to book reccs!!

-I'm VERY into cinema, especially horror. Some of my favorites are The Thing, Green Room, and Annihilation. I'm always open to movie reccs as well.

-I don't play games very much anymore but I still like to when I have time. Recently I've been playing Minecraft again, working on a forever world is very fun and I highly recommend. I've also been playing The Outlast Trials and been working my way through the Metro 2033 series.

-Minimum 3 hours a day of studying and aiming to maintain a 4.0 for med school application. Also might document some of my volunteer hours here just to stay accountable

That's all for now, this blog won't strictly be about studying and academics but I likely will do regular accountability posting. I'll also be posting stuff related to my listed interests so if you're into any of the same stuff feel free to interact and we can be mutuals!

[sage-studies-22222]

Intro!!

hi im sage, welcome to my studyblr :3

im 18, currently taking a non-planned-gap-year-thing after my first semester of community college. My family decided to move across the country and I am NOT paying out of state tuition, so I've been working while I wait for that sweet, sweet in-state tuition to kick in!

I am majoring in biomedical science. All I've wanted my whole life is to be a doctor, and I will stop at nothing until I have become the best doctor I can be! I most likely will be going into emergency med or anesthesiology.

I am currently studying to re-take the ACT, my goal is at least a 30, because that qualifies me for a full-ride scholarship at my college. I got a 27 with no studying the first go-round so it should be do-able.

I am starting EMT classes in January. I also will be studying for the biology and chemistry CLEP exams so I can get my pre-reqs out of the way and hit the ground running when I get back into college!

This blog is going to be a place for me to track my study habits, and keep myself motivated, as well as blog about my acedemic life once I get back into school.

Follow for more of my pre-med insanity, maybe I'll have something to say worth listening to someday :)

[cranquis]

Your recent reblog made me sad, but also makes a lot of sense. I've been following you since I was in medical school, and I'm now in my fifth year of specialty training (I am not American). I did occasionally wonder why I've been seeing less of the kind of content you used to put out.

All I can say is - thank you for the work you do. I've seen enough online to get an idea of what you must face on a daily basis. I think I'm lucky that somehow, the doctor-patient relationship overall hasn't deteriorated to such an extent where I live (yet at least), but I definitely understand the frustration and despair of trying to communicate with people who aren't coming into the conversation in good faith.

You've always been a kind of role model for me in terms of your passion for your work and your open sharing about your faith. I guess I just wanted to say that I hope you find hope and joy in your work, even if those you serve aren't wise enough to appreciate what you do for them.

Hi, my colleague! Hey first of all, thank you for your kind words of encouragement and affirmation. Negative med-related interactions (online or in person) anymore just roll off me, but the positive ones still give my heart a thrill! :) And congrats on your continued journey down the medical pathway.

Second, I'm glad your message gives me the chance to clarify for all my long-time Cranquis Pants* that I still do enjoy my work. I have been doing the exact same Urgent Care job in the exact same location (with quite a few staff turnovers) ever since I finished residency 17 years ago! I still enjoy the bulk of my patient interactions, I continue to hone my diagnostic skills, I feel very confident in my procedural skills, I have a reputation in our local medical community as a reliable and thorough physician, and I have a loyal group of patients who routinely nag me to "quit urgent care and become a regular doctor so we can be your primary care patients". My staff likes and respects me (despite my best efforts to ruin that on the daily, with my puns etc); I like my staff and appreciate the hard work they do in the face of the same administrative and societal opposition that I encounter; I am not distressed when little kids freak out during physical exams (and my success rate of turning those frowns upside down with playful interactions and silly sound effects is pretty darn good).

I am blessed with amazing work-life balance, more than the majority of Family Medicine-trained physicians I suspect. I carry no pager, I take no call, I leave my work at home when I go home. I know my schedule months in advance, I have a shift template that gives me plenty of week-long stretches off, and I have my Sabbaths 100% free to attend church and spend time with my family. My pay is decent and my benefits are solid, my debts get paid and I have a roof over my head. My kids and wife are happy to see me come home. Personally, I really have nothing to complain about.

But the bloom is off the rose for my profession as a whole. The politics and trends of the US health care system continues to disenfranchise physicians, devaluing the years and $$ invested in becoming physicians, over-valuing patient satisfaction scores and inexpensive labor and glitzy administrative initiatives and staff rumor mills more than evidence-based, experience-driven clinical medicine. The power structure is upside down, as if doctors ought to be automatically doubted and disdained by pharmacists, insurance companies, administrators, patients, and APCs because of their systematic educational journeys and reliance upon scientific evidence.

And one of the saddest results is watching medical professionals turn on each other. The fragmentation and super-specialization of every aspect of medical care creates artificial "us v. them" scenarios; specialists and primary-care battling over who does the paperwork for pre-op visits and FMLA, ER and Urgent Care arguing about how much workup should be undertaken by the UC when the patient is obviously going to need ER management, primary-care so overwhelmed with insurance-required goals that their patients can never get same-day/soon-day appointments, pharmacies so understaffed that it's easier for them to tell the patients that "the doctor never sent the prescription" when in reality ...

I could go on.

I miss the old days (said the geezer on the internet), when I could enthusiastically support a pre-med student's dreams of getting into medical school and "helping people as a doctor someday." Now I wince at the idealism in a high-schooler's eyes, and try to find a nice way to say "there's more options for helping people than just becoming a doctor... be sure you have your motivations straight, because medicine is not what it was even 10 years ago..."

So hope and joy in my career? Hope for the profession of physicians, I have little. But I make the joy in my practice when I can make it, and I only expect to find joy in my non-medical time with family and hobbies and travel and friends and the lifestyle which my medical career still does make more feasible than otherwise.

*Probably not the term historically assigned to "fans of this blog", back when I posted frequently -- it's been a minute -- but if not, SHOOT that was a missed opportunity.

[academiario]

nursing school: health assessment class 🩺📚👩🏻‍⚕️

[internalresistance]

Decided to pull an all nighter . The decision was sealed while completely taken over by adrenaline spurge at 7 pm upon my system's realisation that it has successfully sat through multiple 1.5 hour sessions without continuous flinching . Due to feeling undefeatable for a second there , here I am , planning what I must consume every coming hour to keep me fueled and wagging .

I had to relearn this bitch of a derivation in the middle of the long physics lecture cuz bitch inseparable and absolutely pathetic tbh .

Bye chatgpt is currently hooked at throwing me derivation problems to solve and submit like yess sir homeschool me right away.

[littmedstudies]

i found a new spot to study✮⋆˙

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

i’m currently falling in love with school

it gives me an escape

i’m so grateful to be studying—it’s a privilege

★ ★ ★

today i worked on statistics homework

• i had to get 1:1 help from my professor

i had chemistry class today

• we’re working on electron configuration

• i’m really struggling 🙇🏻‍♂️

[car-the-man]

I was watching a video about different gaits (ways of walking) from an Ivy League university and the guy talking in the videos as like “when you or I walk we do it like this” or whatever and kept saying stuff like “unlike you and I” and just assuming that everyone watching walks and walks normally something that is not true, and I realized that he did not expect and subconsciously couldn’t even imagine someone who did not have a standard gait wanting to be a medical professional. No wonder cripple doctors can be so rare, this big university guy who works in a hospital can’t even imagine someone who doesn’t walk watching that video. Depressing tbh

[jasper-the-kid]

whenever I think that med school is going to be a bitch, I think about my queen Martha jones 🫡

[likeshestoleit]

gotta romanticize the med school struggle ✨

[kitkatstu-dies]

Day in the life of a pre-med : )

6:00am: wake up/pack lunch/get ready for the day

8:00am: first class! I am usually half asleep by this time but I try my best to focus on whats happening

9:00am: second class -> locked in and writing a bunch of notes

11:00: third class -> half asleep again (mainly because this class is boring lol). I still try to pay attention or read the book if I'm zoning out

~12:30pm: Eat lunch and get ready for work (aka go get some caffeine)

2pm - 6:30pm: work (medical assistant) Once it gets busy, the time goes so quick

~7pm: eat dinner & go on a walk to clear my mind

8pm: study/review notes

9pm take a shower & go to sleep by 10pm

[cupcraft]

I'm so serious never in your life look at premed or med or mdphd reddits like you'll see someone whose like my mcat is like <510 but I have like 25 first author papers and I'm involved in two clinical trials and the reddit comments will be like "should you even try this career god your mcat sucks maybe you should never pursue this ever and also die!" (Based off a recent post i saw). If you're applying to med school never in your life ask reddit if its worth applying brother

[sage-studies-22222]

Whenever I start thinking too much about the future and how badly I want it to be now, I throw myself into studying math knowing each problem is simultaneously literally passing the time but also inching closer to my goals for the future and it helps a little.

I swear I’m the only person who gets panic attacks over WANTING it to be the future instead of fears over it. I KNOW everything will work out for me. I will achieve my goals. But damnit why do they have to be so far away.

[catmanstudies]

☀️A week in a life of a desi student ☀️

Making a study plan and then actually sticking to it is a ART which I am yet to master, but recently I have been trying to at least finish those things which are the most urgent, one thing which helps is making two lists always 1) all the things you need to do and 2) making a priority order out of list one

Even though I am yet to unlearn the curse of over scheduling I want to believe I will reach there one day, so I shall give myself a little pat on the back for never not trying and so should you <3

Thank you for coming to my desi girl study blog (the name is under construction and we will get their eventually fam)

[s0llucetomnibus]

To anyone interested in emergency medicine: get The Chief Complaint by Chris Feier MD.

Chris is an ER doc and that's who it's made for but the book is very useful even for those working in a prehospital setting. It isn't so much a study guide as it is a quick reference handbook but it has some great information with algorithms for identifying and treating nearly any complaint you could get from a patient. It's a little pricey at $40 on Amazon but if you're a med student or first responder it is easily worth the money.