It's the end-of-posting Exam week D:

OMG, OMG, OMG!!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarggghhhhhhhhh

I can't believe it's the exam week already. I don't really know if i've learned anything much. 2 weeks for endocrinology, 2 weeks for CNS, and 4 weeks for Cardiology, is it enough? Honestly, i dont think so. (or is it just me??) My group has to cover respiratory, ID, dermatology and rheumatology posting by ourselves. Is it enough? No! And this is the first time we are going to have short cases but they gave us 2 short cases for the exam. Is it alright? No!
How can this be alright? But, nevertheless i dont want to be stressed out by the exam. I'm just going to give my best shot as always ( and it's not the best result usually)
Today, 1 friend told me that when she came into my room she always found me holding a book in my hand implying i'm a hardworking girl and always study. And my response was, what? No, lah..sometimes i look at my laptop, sometimes i dont read the book in my hand at all and i said it was not a good way to study (am i in denial?)
Seriously, i think being hardworking and study most of the time in clinical years is NOT a good way to study. (and yet i'm doing it) The cases you might get in exam, they wont be taken from your books. It's how you apply the knowledge that matters (at least, that's the way i see it). So, a better option is to have some friends to study with you about cases in the hospital. I think it's better to learn that way because by doing so you'll know some of the important aspects of the hx that you'd missed out, the correct way to perform PE (if you do it wrongly), to interpret the findings if it tally with your hx, to think about the relevant investigations and the results that you'd expect and finally how to manage the patient.
But my problem right now is finding someone to study together (medical students tend to study alone) and to think about differetial dx and ix.
How can I overcome this?