Until next time, NBME

March brought with it a lot of studying. No way around it. The shelf was appropriately difficult (in my opinion), but beforehand I was expecting the worst. This was probably because I was studying the test bank questions that the database allows access to, which are some of the most farfetched and off the wall pharm questions I had encountered. It was best to stick to pharmwiki, brush up on basic concepts in FirstAid, and let it be.

After the exam, life got a bit easier. Everything about this school year began to feel extremely fast, especially as graduating is so close now. It feels like we just were learning about inflammation in July when everyone else was on Summer break. I have to say (even though it's only the end of March) that I am extremely happy with this program and would not go back and change anything about my decision to enroll. My friends that got into medical school this year had a great opportunity to go straight in, yet when we talk about the field of medicine it seems like they are more like robots than clinicians. This program has taught critical thinking in a medical setting (especially because we had no prior experience in the subject).

The Shelf exam prevented me from going to any live music shows this month, but a huge sense of nostalgia has hit me because we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. This month the song reflects this tune.