There’s no set amount of time, everyone grieves at their own pace. Could be six months or 18 months, but it takes time and you have to be patient with yourself.

My dad passed before medical school. My bandwidth for work was definitely lower for a while, but I just had to accept it. It’s ok. It’s a normal part of the grieving process.

Grief ebbs and flows, when you get hit with a wave of grief just take a moment and allow yourself to feel it. It’s ok to move on once the grief subsides and get back to whatever you were doing before it hit.

My gma and gpa died during M2, my gpa passed like a week before I took step 1. Shitty timing, but I learned to get some work done between waves of grief, and when the waves of grief came I would just allow myself to feel it and take a break from medicine. I wasn’t nearly as productive as I would’ve been if I wasn’t grieving, but I had to accept that I was doing my best. It’s hard to do, but give yourself leeway to perform at a “lower” level. Try to reframe that though. Even just getting the bare minimum done means you are killing it considering the circumstances.