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    Re: Nova Students Question Archived Message

    Posted by Nova-AA on September 17, 2009, 1:57 pm, in reply to "Nova Students Question"

    Hey Kris,
    I'm a first year student and here's your schedule; Go to class during the day, study at night. There ya go Seriously though, you are in class or lab for most of the day, anytime between 8:00 and 5:30 typically, but on occasion you will go later. It think the latest we had an actually lecture this year was til about 7:30 one day. But you do have some breaks between classes usually. And I guess it depends on how quickly you can retain new information, but most of my time outside of class is spent reading/studying. That's not to say that you can't go out and do things on the weekends, but don't expect much free time your first year, especially during test weeks.

    Everyone is different though, and I know people who get by on much less, but I guess I'm not just trying to "get by" but really learn the stuff so I don't kill someone one day....but maybe that's just me

    During the fall of your 2nd year (so after about 15 months of the program) you go out on clinical rotations. Obviously I can't speak from personal experience, but from what I hear, you spend most of your time in the hospital (someone told me its like your on a year of residency...so anywhere from 40hrs/week up to 80 or so, but I don't know personally, so maybe they were exaggerating...who knows). While on rotations you still have a few tests (online) and maybe some papers to write, but most of your time is devoted to clinical learning.

    Hope that helps.

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