Interview: Jan–Mar Accelerated Study Timeline – How She Passed the PCS

Welcome back everybody to Pushing Pediatrics.

If you've listened to us for any length of time, you know that we've talked a lot about study plans, mostly in season one and two.

We have talked about schedules that span nine months, years, sometimes even longer.

And those plans work really well for a lot of people because they spread out the workload and make studying more manageable.

But that's not everybody's reality.

Maybe life happened, work got busy, maybe you had kids, you were pregnant, all of the different things that could happen in the course of a year.

Or maybe you just weren't even ready to commit to it yet and then you decided to take the leap and it is now a shorter time span.

So today we wanted to share a little bit of a different perspective.

So this is not an episode saying that everybody can or should wait until January, but it's also not an episode saying you have to study for a year.

Instead, we wanted to kind of highlight a successful approach from someone who passed the PCS after really focusing preparation only through really like January through March.

So all that to say, there's a lot of roads that lead to passing this exam.

And we thought it was super valuable to hear what this one looked like because Sarah and I had a longer prep.

So we come from that lens and we wanted to bring a different lens.

So when Anne reached out to me on Instagram, just letting Sarah and I know that she had passed the PCS, which is our favorite time of year when everybody like reaches out and tells us that they passed.

She had kind of said like, oh, I had just started studying in January and I had to write back and I was like, wait, I need to hear more.

Like, I'm really interested in this because I think it would be super valuable.

So without further ado, I am introducing you to Anne, who is one of our previous listeners, but also a new PCS.