Michigan Medical School Curriculum: Flexibility in M1 and M2 Years with Kavya

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And that sort of flexibility and customizability is also very important when you think about your M1 and your M2 years, although the content is a little bit more regimented and less flexible, what's really nice is that your M1 year, you get to take a, when we have quizzes every other weekend, but those quizzes are open from Friday all the way up until Sunday, so from Friday around five PM all the way up until Sunday at midnight. So you can take that quiz whenever you want on the weekend. So if you have a friend's wedding to go to on Friday night or on Sunday night, you can figure out what your schedule should be. Take your quiz accordingly. In addition, we also have quiz retakes, which I don't think a lot of other medical schools have, in that if you feel like you wanted to learn the content better or you just felt like you didn't do as well as you could have on your quiz, you can retake the quiz on Monday and that's for any quiz ever. Some people just take the weekend quizzes as practice and then use the Monday quizzes as their real quiz where some people study really hard for the weekend quiz and then do well and think you know what I can kind of tweak a little bit on how I understood these other topics and then work harder and then get an even better score on Monday but that's no penalty and you get the highest score of the two quizzes that you completed. So there's a lot of flexibility within your M1year as well. And your M2 year you can choose the order of your clinical rotations based on what you're interested in. So if you want to go into surgery, maybe you want to do that one first to verify like yes, this is what I want to go into. Or maybe you want to do surgery at the end so that you are the most prepared after all of your rotations to show um how capable you are when you are being evaluated on that rotation. So there's a lot of flexibility to take into consideration overall in our curriculum. There is so much to do here that really creates your own clinical experience and your own didactic experience that really allows you to cultivate the sort of position that you want to be in the future.