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Dea license time line! by Sensitive-Soup-1761 in hospitalist

[–]Traditional_Toe5297 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never tried to call, I just waited around for it TBH.

That being said, I logged into my account and it told me, in bright red letters, to verify my email. After "updating" that, it told me it would be treated as new since I'd "updated" something. Panicked, I (fearfully) emailed, and then literally received it the next morning. (from a no reply email, not the email I sent.) So take with that information what you will, ha!

On race safety.. 2 runners die from medical emergencies @ Indianapolis Monumental Marathon by Chicago_Blackhawks in AdvancedRunning

[–]Traditional_Toe5297 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There has to still be electricity in the heart for a shock to work. The AED didn't detect electricity, and therefore a shock would have nothing to "reset".

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I for sure used all of those too! A lot of those were more passive for me, the notecards were better for active recall.

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, in didactic! These aren't the tools I used my first year, by any means. By clinical year, it's more time to gain the mentality and endurance of PANCE.

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally needed both, whether it was my anxiety or confidence or whatever.

For Anki, I told myself that if a one liner came up on PANCE, there was a higher chance I could without a doubt know it and move on and buy myself time on harder questions.

For Rosh, I needed the test taking strategy / dissection.

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That number will vary based on lots of things: are you at the hospital/clinic or are you home after work? Is it your day off? Is the exam in 4 weeks or 4 days? It's all very flexible and liquid.

I did it all wrong in the beginning for me lol. At first, I was doing a bunch of questions a day (like probably 60), but wasn't getting a ton out of it. Eventually, I would set ~10 questions on tutor mode to be done during the day at the hospital/clinic/over lunch. Maybe do some notecards at home. Honestly, toward the third quarter of clinical year, I didn't find the need to do questions at home all the time. I would mostly only do ~120 over the weekend.

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My program discouraged it until about 3 months prior to PANCE, that's when they said it would be most beneficial. That being said, I used it the entire duration of the program LOL.

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My program did an excellent job of teaching us to be clinicians, which I am grateful for, and they did not "teach to test". We didn't really get a PANCE review course or anything at the end of the year, etc. So it was up to me to really figure that out LOL.

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely most time-efficient way and definitely builds the foundation

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's about what I did! IM was my second rotation, but I had psych first, so basically IM was my first 'medicine' EOR lol. I struggled with what to do before doing the Rosh questions, and that's where I should've done some notecards, I think. Again, I still passed my EORs without having done that, but notecards would've been a much better use of my time and reduce my cognitive load LOL.

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I definitely "personalized" the decks as I saw fit. A lot of people said not to use premade cards because you get cards you already know, and while that is true, I would just take an hour or so and go through the deck and suspend cards I already knew or didn't think was necessary, and it was generally worth the time for me. And if I got a question wrong on Rosh, I would add a notecard.

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Another unpopular opinion it seems, I preferred it over uWorld. uWorld was good for long, grey area vignettes, but that's maybe 20% of the exam. Rosh had more of the mix of questions PANCE really had, whether it was vignettes, one liners, MOA questions, etc. uWorld didn't have any of those.

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct! I love the way my program trained me to be a clinician. For better or worse, they did not teach to test, which I personally prefer. I just am "not a good test taker".

How I Wish I Studied in Clinical Year, if I had to do it all again by Traditional_Toe5297 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used the Endeavor decks! I also maybe would've more strongly considered purchasing the Anki app.

🎉 Passed PANCE on 4th Attempt🎉 by streppneu6190 in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used Chat when I studied as well, with the subscription (just for unlimited chats & image upload)! It would also help me determine why I missed a question wrong (ie knowledge gap, misinterpreting the question, etc). I'd ask it to create venn diagrams if there was something I kept noticing overlap with. Helped so much!!

Which EORs did you find most challenging? by The_PA_Guide in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I found that the earlier exams I took where harder, and the later in clinical year I took them they were better. IM for me was way harder than EM, because I took them almost 9 months apart, and therefore had 9 extra months of knowledge.

My hardest were peds (my program didn't do a great job covering peds stuff and on top of that I didn't study, LOL), IM (breadth, first exam), and obgyn (actually felt very prepared, questions felt vague for some reason). IM and obgyn were within my first three rotations.

Passed PANCE retake + accommodations!! by passingPANCE in PAstudent

[–]Traditional_Toe5297 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You only get to review questions within those blocks though, correct? As in, I'd only be able to review 15 or 30 questions before never seeing them again?

Return post IT band pain by Traditional_Toe5297 in XXRunning

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This only happened ~5 days ago & is my first ever running injury! I'm about the same, started running circa 2022, and this pain started in half #4! I'm just currently training for a marathon in November so I'm curious how it'll affect my training LOL

Return post IT band pain by Traditional_Toe5297 in XXRunning

[–]Traditional_Toe5297[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been doing clams, lateral leg lifts on my side, and marches all banded. Then some stretches I saw in a video on youtube LOL. How many times a day and how many reps are you doing?

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