37: Welcome to Your 3rd Year of Medical School
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2013
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, we talk about life as a medical student on the wards. We talk about what it’s like to be a new 3rd-year medical student. There is no summer between 2nd and 3rd year. This is to match you up with the calendar of the residents coming in.
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- Related episode: What Do the First Two Years of Medical School Look Like?
- Related episode: Top 7 Things You Should Know as a Medical Student.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | MapCon is right around the corner October 6th through 8th in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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| 0:44.1 | October 6th through 8th, MAPSCPCON presented by Blueprint |
| 0:47.7 | MCAT. I will see you there. The Medical School HQ Podcast. I'm your host. Welcome back to another session here at the Medical School HQ podcast. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm your host, back with my co-host, Allison Gray. |
| 1:17.7 | Hello. |
| 1:18.7 | And together we are the podcast about Medical School, taking you through the pre-med process, medical school, |
| 1:26.0 | and even through residency. We're here to take your knowledge of becoming a physician to the next level. |
| 1:37.1 | How you doing, Allison? I'm good, how are you? I'm doing excellent. What are we going to talk about today? We're talking about what it's like to be a medical student on the wards. |
| 1:45.0 | All right. Yeah, so this podcast is going to release at the beginning of August. |
| 1:51.0 | Students are starting to, well actually I guess, we were thinking about students going back to school, but when you're on the ward, you've started already. |
| 2:01.0 | Yeah, about a month in. |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah, so there's a learning opportunity |
| 2:05.2 | for you students out there typically school starts in August right you're you're |
| 2:10.1 | used to that school schedule that starts in August, but after second year of medical school, |
| 2:17.2 | you typically go straight into your ward years, your third year. |
| 2:23.8 | There is no summer between second and third year. |
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