How did your studying material change once you began rotations?

[winterallsummer]

Did you use your old notes/powerpoints? Stick to the same textbooks and review books?

[UGoLong]

Once we began rotations, we studied for tests that were given at the end of each rotation. Frankly speaking, most of our time was taken up keeping up with the rotation. At night, I mostly looked up stuff I didn't know that I faced the day before, or read about surgeries we would be doing the next day. There was little, if any, time just to study for boards. We did have callback days where we did activities to get ready for boards. There was also a week or two back on campus after all rotations that were over that were designed to help prepare for boards. Several of us took a board review class as well.

 

I took a month after graduation to prepare for boards. In retrospect, that was probably a week or two too long.