So our instructor politely graced us with his one hour run through of statistics for our test Monday worth 15% of our grade. Now...I took stats 4 years ago and barely remember what a p-value even is let alone be prepared enough in the material to have a test on it in less than a week! Honestly though, I shouldn't be complaining, there is one student who hasn't taken stats since 1999... I was 6. (I guess it could always be worse). So as we are scrambling to learn the basics of stats for our 30 question test on Monday, we are also preparing for a physical assessment test that same day as well. I am quickly learning that I do not need a 100 on everything like I did in undergrad. In undergrad it was do-able, here, I feel like an attempt of straight A's is insanity. I am going in with an attitude that I will learn as much as I can and whatever grade I get is the grade I get (As long as I pass). Passing here is a 74, so as long as I stay above that, I will be fine. =p I will tone down the academic obsession because it is about learning now, and retaining the information. I need to focus on how I will treat patients with my knowledge, not how well I do on tests.
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**As many of you can tell, I graduated AMC's program in May of 2017. Current plan is to start a new blog related to my Fellowship after PA school. Stay tuned for the link and updates :)**
Lindsey the
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