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What is medical school and what is the classroom time like?

I am on the way to college for the premed route, yet I know nothing about medical school. Is it like a mock residency? Could someone please provide me with in depth information about this please?

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Hi Alana - congratulations on beginning your medical journey. Medical school can vary quite bit based on the school. Traditional medical school provided 2 years of classroom-based work - much like college classes and labs where you learn anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, pathology and more with gradually increasing clinical exposure - first learning how to take a medical history and do a physical exam on test patients, learning to draw blood, following physicians in clinic. You would take gross anatomy in a cadaver lab in the first year to learn human anatomy in a hands-on way for instance. They last two years of traditional medical school are based in hospitals and clinics where you evaluate patients and discuss them with senior supervising physicians. You rotate through different clinical settings during those two years every month to six weeks. For example, you would join a general surgical team to round on their patients in the hospital, watch surgeries in the OR, and see patients in clinic, then rotate to a family medicine clinic, then a radiology department, etc. Some medical schools are introducing more clinical exposure earlier in the curriculum and doing more problem based, small group learning and less lecture and didactic learning, but this is the general outline. I hope this is helpful!
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