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Five lessons (+1) I learned from studying for my board exams 💻📚 • 1️⃣ Until you know, you truly don’t even know what you don’t know. 2️⃣ This is probably the moment I’ll know most in my whole life, and I gotta be okay with that. 3️⃣ Studying is a muscle — it doesn’t come easy when you haven’t done it for a while, but the more you do it, the smoother it gets. 4️⃣ Life keeps on going even when you’re studying, and even when you don’t feel like you can, it’s okay that you keep on living too. 5️⃣ After you’re done with the exam, there’s no use focusing on the questions you got wrong — it just discredits all the ones you got right that you’re not thinking about, and discredits all the hard work you’ve put into your studies. ✨Be proud of what you’ve achieved. No matter the result, you did your absolute best and no one and no grade can take that from you. • I am finally done with my board examsssss!!!!!! (Unless I fail my orals but hopefully I won’t haha) I can’t begin to tell you how relieved I feel now, despite the weird unsure feeling you get after an exam. I feel like the whole year since last July, and maybe even the last two years or so have amounted to this, and I don’t quite know how to feel now that I’m on the other side. I have gained so much knowledge in the past months, forgotten a lot of it tbh, but I’ve also learned a lot about studying, and thought it’d be worth it to remind y’all. • Now just waiting on these critical results, and sending good vibes out in the universe, but it’s all out of my hands now. I did everything I could! 🙌🏻

Spent Easter weekend at my parents, half being on call and half relaxing, and by relaxing I mean studying, and by studying I mean procrastinating too much in between study sessions. 🙃 • How was your long weekend?

Another week off has gone and passed, and I have no clue what I did and where time went. I’m still grateful I got to rest, spend time with friends and family, got time to do some life admin stuff that I’ve procrastinated for too long. I feel like the older I get, the less exciting time off becomes — or maybe the last two years have made life more mundane — but I’m deciding to focus on the positives and show gratefulness for every little moment! • What are you grateful for right now?

💬 What have you been up to recently? • Had a great time as a senior resident with an amazing team on the GIM floor over the past three weeks. From the med students and junior residents to the attendings, nurses, PT/OT/SW, and pharmacists, everyone played a brilliant part in bringing the best care to our patients. Medicine is all about team work, and to me, that’s one of the best things about it. 👏🏻 • Now on to a week off (woo!) where I’ll rest a lot in between a bit of studying and life admin!

The past few days/weeks have been really tiring, with a lot going on and very little break, and that’s been making me feel burned out recently. I’ve been unmotivated, not creative, a little more cynic, just overall feeling ‘meh’. But I’ve learned over the years to stop and smell the flowers, that after a long winter always comes spring with its growth and rebirth, and I know that this will be transposed in my life too. This too (like the long winter we just had) shall pass. Despite the obstacles ahead, I’m excited to see what this next season of my life brings, and I hope you do too! 🌸

Been studying for my board exam since last fall, and back then I was already dreading this weekend’s internal medicine review course… I was right to do so, because oh my god it’s so long and there’s so much to learn and how am I gonna stuff all that information in a single brain?!? 🤯 One chapter, one day at a time is what I gotta tell myself. I’m gonna make it, and so will you! 💪

I’m officially going back to work tomorrow (as in, back to the regular schedule), and although I’d prefer to stay home, I’ve got a lot to be grateful for. • I’m grateful that my holiday break got extended by a day; That no one in my family got sick over the holidays; For all the mornings I slept in; For all the dinners my parents cooked; That I got to see my friends (in person or online) and none of them are sick either; And I’m grateful for the new opportunities this new year brings. • Finding things to be thankful for despite how crazy our world has been in the past few years has definitely been helpful to me. And I hope you also get to find the little joys in your everyday life. • What are you grateful for today?

What are you doing during this weird week between Christmas and New Year’s? From my studygram

Seven nights in a row was tough, and I’m oh so glad to be on the other side of it. 😅 • Also I don’t know how I got from a clueless PGY1 who was so intimidated by critical care to a PGY3 who can deal with severe ARDS patients and who’s teaching others about med, but I guess that’s what growing is! • Tell me what’s happening with you! I feel like I’ve been in a completely other world in the past week 😂