Medicine and school is my life but it is extremely important to take a break and enjoy the holidays. Last year I made the mistake of telling myself “I will study everyday over break”. It was the wrong attitude to have because I never gave myself time off mentally and accomplished the same amount of work as if I did take a couple days off. It is especially important because second semester is challenging due to the quantity of work. Therefore, my fellow bloggers asked me to share some insight on my experience with Histology….
The difficulty of Histology usually takes you by surprise. I believe success in the course has to do with your ability to recognize structures, which is generally a new skill to learn. It took me a while to learn how to study for this. By the end of the course I realized you couldn’t develop that skill in a few days and how important it was to look at as many slides as possible. The sources that helped me the most were using the Histotime CD (available through the library), multiple books/atlas, Vbrick videos, and using slides from lab. Be as efficient as possible in lab because it is easy to neglect the time and sources available.
Good luck with midterms. I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday! All I want for Xmas is an Eagles Superbowl victory, but it looks like that won’t happen…maybe next year.
