
Hitting the Books
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Third-year students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine study for their End of Rotation exams.
Third-year students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine study for their End of Rotation exams, which assess their medical knowledge at the end of each six-week rotation.
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Hitting the Books
Clip | 1m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Third-year students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine study for their End of Rotation exams, which assess their medical knowledge at the end of each six-week rotation.
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♪ ♪ ♪ Each rotation that we have, we're in a different specialty.
And at the end of the six-week rotation, we take a big exam on all the different topics from that specialty.
So, tomorrow I... show what I've learned about little kids.
(chuckles) It's 110 questions per... per shelf exam, 90 seconds per question, 110 questions.
So, gotta know your stuff.
♪ -With rotations, you kind of have to put everything else on hold.
There's so much information to learn.
♪ And there's just, like, kind of this guilt whenever you're doing something.
It's like, "Oh, I should be studying right now.
"Oh God, I haven't done nearly enough practice questions.
"I have not learned about all these random disorders.
I need to like, go into crunch time."
♪ I would say, like, five hours a day, maybe, after going to work at the hospital.
I'll put in anywhere between, like, six to 10 or 12, just depending on how much time I have.
Not that all of that is productive.
A lot of it is me taking snack breaks or stretching breaks or, like, crying bre-- not crying breaks.
I keep saying I cry.
I don't...
I actually haven't cried at all this rotation, but... spiritually crying a little bit.
(laughs) ♪
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A year in the life of medical students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. (3m 58s)
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Third-year students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine study for their End of Rotation exams. (1m 42s)
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