Personal life vs studies

How badly has you personal life (whether its love life , hobbies, etc etc) been affected since you started your medical course?

Not very much I'd have to say, or at least not more than anyone else, so it's harder to notice.

no time for tv, no time, for family, no time for friends......constant stress......

maybe its cuz ive just started out my course....and hopefully later ill learn that i dont have to stress myself out and that it isnt as hard and worrisome as i am making it........i hope...........

Yea that pretty much sums up where I'm at as well. Hopeful though that it will get better and that there will be more free time as we get used to the system/stress/study load .

First year is the hardest, mostly because you don't have a way to gauge your abilities until you've actually passed. With that in mind you should realize how important it is to never miss a class test or substage/viva. That's the only way you'll know whether or not you're doing enough or not. I know that's somewhat general advice, but there were always people in my first year who would skip tests and vivas just because they assumed they would fail. That's ten times worse than actually going to the test and failing it.

The other thing you should keep in mind, and actually look forward to, is that there does come a point where you've familiarized yourself with all of the medical terminology, so you're not necessarily learning entirely new things as you are just adding on to what you already know. It makes things much easier in my opinion, and actually gives you time to be interested in what you're studying, rather than just cramming it in word for word.

emmm ... a nice topic to discuss about. it really made me stop for a while and think whether medical studies have affected my personal life or not.
well, i think every phase of life puts the burden of some responsiblities and rights of course on us and we gotta adjust ourselves according to the circumstances, life's learning! if one is able to work hard and cope with the stress of studies, thats what we call success! if one is able to find some leisure time and enjoy it to its full, thats what we call success! if one is happy, thats success and above all, if one is satisfied and content that whatever the way he/she utilized his/her time is in fact reflective of the best possible efforts on the part of that person, whether you achieve the goal or flunk, its success! mind it, I am not only talkign about studies but in general okay.
obviously, becoming a doc is not a cake! we have to sacrfice countless activities of our routine lives but then, if we look around and see, there are many other professional students who are working on the same line s and working hard, that would be somewhat relieving .but the main point is, though we have to work up much much more than others but definitely, in the end, this profession gets us more name and fame than others aint it? afterall, its not just the money!
in the beginning, there is definitely some pressure and most of the students find it pressty frustrating but i hope with time, things will be much better and you will feel the difference! Remember, its WE OUESELVES who have to maintain the balance in our lives i.e studies as well as personal lives. with time, everybody learns how to adapt accordingly. i dont say keeping the balance means we dont have to sacrifice our personal lives but i must say we can maintain the equilibrium near normal!so i think,like Matashriz said, at least not more than anyone else, agreed!

medical studies hasn't affected my life too badly.but yes little bit it has..........as i dont have much time 2 watch tv now,going out sometimes becomes difficult .In short somehow there is a stressfull feeling regarding our studies.....BUT INSHALLAH soon v'll settle down in this new enviroment most probably after a month holidays..............

well yep first year is surely the hardest
i work(part time) and study here and have my personal life too to look abt ie my gf and i spend most nights revising and sleeping only 3 hrs
and when i have exams its usually "too much blood in my caffeine system" lol

Hey man,
Man it sounds like studies in Pakistan are pretty serious.. I am guessing they make AP stuff look like a joke? because AP stuff is the hardest stuff I have done up to now..and I mean its pretty time consuming and takes greater effort than your normal classes to get a good grade in the AP courses and than later on getting a good score on the tests themselves. Anyways, hopefully everything gets better as time goes.

Despite how difficult it still is, I think AP courses have helped me out a lot. Especially the essay questions that are a part of a lot of AP tests. Having spent hours writing practice AP essays, I haven't had any difficulty at all procuring the amount of material necessary to answer essay questions here, where a lot of the kids will tell you that you need to write as much as possible. You get more time here per question than you would for an AP test essay question, so if you've done AP, it's really nothing to stress about.

Also, a lot of schools are starting to implement multiple choice questions into their testing and examination patterns. If you've taken a couple of AP tests, you should be really well prepared for them in terms of test-taking strategies. For example, in the Stage that I recently took at KE, they gave us 20 minutes for 15 multiple choice questions, and I was done in about 5-6 mins because I was used to the AP pace of spending less than a minute on each question since the AP people usually have time limits like 25 minutes for 30 questions and stuff like that.

The difficulty here isn't so much the system itself as it is time management and the amount of material there is to study. All the material is so new that you feel like you're cut short on time and that you can't possibly learn it all. Once you've learned it though, taking the actual tests isn't THAT bad.

yeah smeers rite...............IT ISNT THAT BAD

if u fall in category with all the other kids ur ok........if they all fail and u fail too...no prob

ohh yah, i remember dropping my cousin's engagement for the sake of my prof Pharmacology viva, just one day after that.... but later, got to attend her wedding and many other weddings too but Pharma, i never got a second chance for it! so, aced it in the first attempt Allhumdulilah.

Simple yet meaningful