Coincidentally, today I got an email notifying me that online registration was open. My first semester classes are as follows:
- Developmental / Microscopic Anatomy I
- Gross Anatomy I
- Doctor, Patient & Society I
- Biochemistry & Genetics I
- Medical Physiology I
I feel like I'm as prepared as I'll ever be. When you talk to medical students about the difficulty of med school, they always cite the amount of information you're required to learn day-to-day, week-to-week. "It's like drinking water out of a fire hose."
For me personally, there's not much I can do but wait. No sense in stressing over something that hasn't begun yet. But I am a little curious to see how much more difficult it is over their undergrad equivalents. (And I'm not kidding myself, they are going to be more difficult.) I look at the first semester classes again and I've taken just about everything they're going to throw at me: Microbiology, Histology, Human Anatomy, Biochemistry, Genetics, and Human Physiology. I'm curious to see how much they really help because you're probably in the same boat I am when it comes to "premed advice." We were both advised to take extra classes beyond both major requirements and premed prerequisites. I took that advice and followed through on it. (The same advice I've passed on to others on this blog, all the time.) I've yet to see how much it really helps, but I guess I'll see soon.









