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Underperformed on oral exams :( New to this Reddit community, but I’m glad to do it just to rant! I’m in my final year of medical school and I got back the results of my oral exam. I have two more and that makes up the majority of my grade! I’d say I’m pretty proactive and when I’m in smaller exam settings and one-to-one with patients, I’m able to control my anxiety well and utilize strategies. However, when I was on exam day, everything I knew flew out the window all my practise with friends and sessions in speech therapy felt like they went out the window. Could hardly get what I wanted to say out when presenting back my case. This isn’t the first time this happened before several times. When I had a do a case presentation to a consultant doctor, that I had been rotating with able to talk to him and answer his questions with mild-moderate stutter. When I had to do this presentation, I was stammering severely took so long to go through my case. He then said at the end “you’re a great student and know your stuff but what you were nervous? You have quite the stutter don’t you, I don’t know how you manage in exams”. That was so embarrassing honestly especially in front of others in my class. I score really high in written mcqs and when I feel confident, control my nerves and if with a bit of luck and speech skills my stammer is lower I do really well. Im gonna keep going but I’m tired of feeling like I’m not able to show my best and what I’m capable of. It honestly feels hopeless at times and I’ve thought several times to leave medical school. I won’t, but it’s just frustrating when hard efforts and time feel like they go to waste.