I want to look forward to it but I'm honestly more nervous than excited. My anxieties are around 3 main things:
Forgetting most of my Step 1 knowledge - even then, I wasn't aiming for mastery, I simply had enough for passing purposes. Never even studied biochem for example and was very weak in pharmacology because I was passing without these.
Being "on" for a long period of the day - even during preclinical I could never pay attention throughout a lecture. I always zoned out within 10 min. Even when shadowing, usually zoned out super early on. I found out that for my first rotation I am placed an hour away, students typically got there at 6am and would be allowed to leave at 7pm at the earliest. That's 5a-8pm everyday for me. Especially coming off of a vacation block, how am I going to make that switch?
Figuring out how to study - this is something I truly don't know how to get through. Everyone says to do Uworld, but I don't learn well from doing questions, especially when my baseline knowledge is so weak. I heard about OnlineMedEd exists so I might try that but Idk, I have no idea if that will even work.
Anyway, how do people get over the anxiety of starting M3 rotations? I'm hoping I'll enjoy it more than pre-clinical, but honestly pre-clinical wasn't too bad for me because I usually did things on my own time. I spent the first week of every block chilling/not studying at all so I never had much difficulty getting through with enough rest time.