Steve Blatt is an ophthalmologist and founder, Face It and Ace It in 90 Days.

For students with test stress, medical schools leave a void  

Education
December 27, 2019

I’m writing this for my tribe of worriers and self-doubters, people for whom ever-present test stress is inextricable to the med school experience.  Sure, every medical student becomes preoccupied fretting over exams to some degree.  That’s part of what you sign up for.  But our preoccupation is something greater than that—it towers over us and bullies us.  It makes us cower in the corner, begging to be spared from harm.

We’re …

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For students with test stress, medical schools leave a void  

3 reasons why smart doctors fail big exams

Education
November 27, 2019

OK, quick — word association time.

I say “doctor,” and you think what? “Smart,” right?

And it’s true. Doctors are smart. But before you buy into the myth that every doctor has breezed through school and could fall out of bed with a #2 pencil and crush an exam without thinking about it, consider that over 1,100 internal medicine doctors fail their board exam every year.

And that’s just one medical specialty. When …

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3 reasons why smart doctors fail big exams