school question..

I think the most difficult task for me has been learning not to procrastinate. All through nursing school I would always put my work off until the very last minute and then take one or two nights before a test and start cramming material. This is absolutely not an option in anesthesia school and it's taken a lot of adjustment on my part, because I have had to completely re-learn new study habits. Personally, I don't think a lot of the material in itself is difficult to understand, it's just the sheer volume of material that is covered in such a small time frame that makes procrastinating a BIG no-no!!! Don't know if this is what you were looking for, but it's my two-cents for what it's worth.....haha!! Good luck to you!!!

I think the most difficult task for me has been learning not to procrastinate. All through nursing school I would always put my work off until the very last minute and then take one or two nights before a test and start cramming material. This is absolutely not an option in anesthesia school and it's taken a lot of adjustment on my part, because I have had to completely re-learn new study habits. Personally, I don't think a lot of the material in itself is difficult to understand, it's just the sheer volume of material that is covered in such a small time frame that makes procrastinating a BIG no-no!!! Don't know if this is what you were looking for, but it's my two-cents for what it's worth.....haha!! Good luck to you!!!

I will graduate in may of 07 and I am done with the didactic part of my program. I agree with turtle.. the material is not hard to learn it is the amount they give you in the time you will need to learn it. I too played around while in nursing school , no way in hell i could have done it like that in this program.

If you get behind it is very hard to stay afloat. If your program is like mine is, they throw you into clinical the 3rd month and then you have to worry about studying for both exams and clinical.. the best part is when you have a pharm test and clinical the same day..... fun fun fun, but just remember we have all been there and made it.

your first year will be crazy and it will take you about a year to finally adjust.. then it starts to level out... just hang in there.

this is just what i went through in the past year and a half... hope it helps

good luck

thanks for the post y'all.. your info helps, but was actually looking for subject-specific info, like biochem (which is where i will probably have some hardships) - either way, it all helps with what u all say - -

Schoolwise, anatomy kicked my a$$. It was a different world from undergrad A&P. My program's not heavy on hard science so I didn't have much trouble with physics, chem etc. Our pharm course was kind of wimpy but in general I've heard pharm can be tough.

Schoolwise, anatomy kicked my a$$. It was a different world from undergrad A&P. My program's not heavy on hard science so I didn't have much trouble with physics, chem etc. Our pharm course was kind of wimpy but in general I've heard pharm can be tough.

hey apais, i was just wondering what it was about the anatomy that was a$$kicking? i have spoken with anesthesia residents (md's) who said that there wasn't much anatomy involved, for which i didn't readily agree.. just the plexuses alone are a challenge.. anyway, any tips on conquering this most wonderful hill of beans they call anatomy? thanks again for the input - -

Didactic-wise, the hardest subject was ANS or cardiac pharm & phys. In clinical, the hardest thing is that there are so many different ways to give anesthesia. One preceptor will tell you to do it a certain way, and when you are with a different preceptor, they will say "why are you doing it that way??! Don't ever do it that way" And it can be something as simple as whether or not you deflate the LMA before removing it.

I think its the volume of info given to you at one time and not the difficulty of the info. I just finished didactic last week. I considered myself a pretty smart guy and did fine but really underestimated the volume of the info we got. I mean blocks we were juggling 7 classes per block. It was unreal. Hard to keep up if not impossible. I really kept pace with the major classes pham, priciples of Anesthesia, phy, anatomy, nervous systems. The other smaller classes I reverted to cramming.