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Assalamu
Alaykum! (Greetings of Peace!)
Being
a medstudent means attending to seemingly endless classes: from boring lectures
to eye-popping histo-labs and neck-breaking cadaver dissections. What is the
purpose of the word “student” anyway if you don’t attend those classes that
will—ehem—prepare you in your future professional career? And so, as much as we
lazy students want to skip all those classes, we cannot deny the fact that we
really need them—badly need them.
But
hey! Not all classes will be full of boring 100+ presentation slides; there
will also be some cool professors with cool ideas to make their lectures
livelier. Ever attended a class where you played games all throughout? How
about a whole 3 hours of lecture while standing? Or just sitting back and watch
a good movie? (Although I hate the “reflection papers” after those films). And
how about professors that suddenly throw firecrackers inside the room to wake
you up? Haha! You will experience them once in a while, only here in medschool.
The idea here is you must attend your classes regularly! Not just for signing
that attendance sheet and just doze off later on. Attend them so that you will
learn and discover new things. Some may be not so interesting, but they will
still be helpful.
There
are some students who prefer reading the books and transcriptions (lecture
notes) than attend their classes, while others would prefer attending their
classes then review their notes. It’s all up to the student actually if he can
really handle it that way. But for me, I believe attending the classes and
listening to the experts during their lectures would really make a change. Missing
a class and just reading the notes after means you will be missing the key
points the lecturer might have highlighted in class the transcribers may have
failed to include.
So
the very first thing that a student in the Medical field should learn is that
Medicine is a life-long process of education. You have to keep on learning and
learning, study and discover new things. It never ends with the exams and the
agonizing results. Our learning journey only stops when we finally breathe our
last. (Meaning until the end of our lives).
And
that, my friend is my advice: If you really want o survive in medschool, attend
your classes regularly. There may be times that you have to miss them for some
very, very good reason, but as much as possible avoid missing the important
lectures. Believe me, I have missed a couple of lectures and I regret missing
them. (Of course there will also be some exceptions here, but let’s not talk
about them haha).
Salam
kasilasa!
Anakiluh,
MD
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