I have had at least one nervous breakdown the past few days. I have this huge exam coming up on June 30th. as some of you know I´m in Med school, and over here we have this stupid new curriculum where we have only ONE exam (written, multiple choice) at the end of each school year. and we have to know everything we did that year for the exam. they ask us the tiniest facts, percentages and a bunch of unimportant crap that most doctors don´t even know.
the thing is: the tuition fees for any kind of college are pretty low here ($350 for a semester, no matter what college it is-and it even used to be for free 4 years ago!), so a lot more people can go, which is good b/c everybody should have the chance to get the kind of education he/she wants.
but: because college used to be for free and even now we only pay so little money for it almost all colleges are broke. especially the med schools are (there are only 3 in austria, the biggest is in Vienna where I go to). so they have to make the exams extra hard to kick a big part of the students out after the first year cause they can´t afford to have many students.
so here in vienna we start out at about 1500 med students the 1st semester, this is being reduced to 600 after the first exam. I´m in the 4th semester now and my upcoming, 2nd exam had very bad results last year (86% failed!!!). dunno why they make the exam after the 2nd year that hard again-after all our country shouldn´t want to run out of doctors one day!
I mean, I studied throughout the year, tried to memorize everything and now I´m starting to go nuts-I forgot so many things already. I´m just human, how are you supposed to be able to memorize about 4000 pages down to the smallest facts? I feel like med school is driving me into therapy. my brain is so full of stuff that I feel there´s no room for more, but there are so many more things I have to memorize.
I really want to bang my head against the wall right now
sorry for the long post-I go on everyone´s nerves with that topic so I figured I´d go on y´alls nerves too
the thing is: the tuition fees for any kind of college are pretty low here ($350 for a semester, no matter what college it is-and it even used to be for free 4 years ago!), so a lot more people can go, which is good b/c everybody should have the chance to get the kind of education he/she wants.
but: because college used to be for free and even now we only pay so little money for it almost all colleges are broke. especially the med schools are (there are only 3 in austria, the biggest is in Vienna where I go to). so they have to make the exams extra hard to kick a big part of the students out after the first year cause they can´t afford to have many students.
so here in vienna we start out at about 1500 med students the 1st semester, this is being reduced to 600 after the first exam. I´m in the 4th semester now and my upcoming, 2nd exam had very bad results last year (86% failed!!!). dunno why they make the exam after the 2nd year that hard again-after all our country shouldn´t want to run out of doctors one day!
I mean, I studied throughout the year, tried to memorize everything and now I´m starting to go nuts-I forgot so many things already. I´m just human, how are you supposed to be able to memorize about 4000 pages down to the smallest facts? I feel like med school is driving me into therapy. my brain is so full of stuff that I feel there´s no room for more, but there are so many more things I have to memorize.
I really want to bang my head against the wall right now
sorry for the long post-I go on everyone´s nerves with that topic so I figured I´d go on y´alls nerves too