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Originally Posted by turn_and_burn
What areas do you feel weak in? Strong?
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This can be somewhat relative, since the only reason that I am personally weak in some areas is because I didn't jibe well with a professor or I found a subject particularly boring. Pharmacology and toxicology is a general area where I feel weak, but not because the subjects weren't covered properly. Also, I haven't had rotations in every subject yet, so I can't fully assess all my education.
Weak: oncology. This is because we had no specific classes in this subject other than some in path and surgery. Some areas of radiology were lacking. I was very disappointed with small animal orthopedic surgery...few people in my class were happy with our professor in this subject and it was very disappointing.
Strong: Clinical Pathology, anesthesiology (was way more interesting than the general pharm even though there was overlap in material), some areas of radiology, apparently people I have spoken with felt well prepared for large animal medicine (especially equine). Small animal medicine I generally feel pretty good, some areas are patchy though...like cardiology.
Other than in a few areas (orthopedic sx) other people in my class would probably say differently. So this is all pretty subjective.
I try to ID my weaknesses and focus more on them to help with studying for board exams