Attending Medical School

Attending medical school was my lifelong dream, but attending the University of Maryland School of Medicine has been so important that that I have been preparing for it since I started going to college. Getting in to medical school requires an outstanding academic excellence and other extracurricular activities, and I as well as other premedical students work very hard to attend one, but many of us do not know what the life of a particular medical student looks like. Medical students undergo the most rigorous and exhaustive educational training for as long as 10 years. A day in the life of a medical student is very dynamic that changes as he or she progresses from semester to semester and from year to year. After a student is accepted by the school, there is a six weeks prematriculation summer program that is designed to help freshmen students to integrate to the medical school environment before their first day of class.
Therefore, students spend most of their time in lecture halls, laboratory and studying. According to a student I talked to, the semester long coursework at undergraduate college is cover in about two weeks at a medical school. This fact shows how effective and efficient one student has to be. He also told me that it is how quickly you can learn and relearn not how much you can memorize that is important. I am not sure how many students know that medical students have only their first full summer break. Learning consistently with only two weeks break for the last three years requires huge physical and mental determination. At the end of their second year, students have 5 weeks to study and pass the step one of USMLE. Based on many students experience, this test has been the scariest examination for most medical students, and students cannot start their junior year before passing the