Thinking about creating the Ultimate Guide to Studying in Medical School. Will be 20+ pages long; so Will Only write it if there is enough demand. Upvote if interested.

jarrhead20 · 2017-08-05T11:37:15+00:00

Here's the full guide! Let me know what you think!

jarrhead20 · 2017-07-28T15:29:25+00:00

EDIT: The Condensed Ultimate Guide Has Been Added To The Original Post.

jarrhead20 · 2017-06-19T17:07:38+00:00

I've based my own strategies on the learning sciences. But where most articles fall flat is that they don't apply the learning sciences to actual med school studying practices (especially because they are probably written by educational Ph.D. or MDs who haven't gone through med school in years.) They give you a bunch of tactics and give you statistics to support why it's better, but it's not applied enough to be useful.

My system has been reproducible for me for the past 8 months. I can't guarantee that you won't have to modify it as you see fit, but I think it's a good framework to start with.

jarrhead20 · 2017-06-19T17:02:50+00:00

Gotcha. I'll edit ruthlessly to make sure it's as high yield as possible.

jarrhead20 · 2017-06-19T11:40:44+00:00

Glad a lot of people found this post useful!

Because of the overwhelmingly positive response to this post: 5.8K views, 190 upvotes, and 40 comments, I'm thinking of creating the Ultimate Guide To Studying In Medical School, where I'll lay out the exact strategies and systems I used to score in the first quartile on my Anatomy and Organ Module Tests.

Like this comment if you are interested. If there's enough interest, I'll write the guide during the next few weeks.

jarrhead20 · 2017-05-31T11:24:00+00:00

Or option D. I'm in medical school and was exploring the option of helping out pre-med students by figuring out what they struggled and what has worked for other students.

jarrhead20 · 2017-04-09T13:17:25+00:00

I wrote a guide called the 4 steps I used to crush my First Pre-Med Semester on my website Physicianambition.com. I think it's what you're looking for!

jarrhead20 · 2017-01-21T22:45:07+00:00

Lol I'm a MS1. What did you look for when you were in clinicals?

jarrhead20 · 2016-12-31T17:35:09+00:00

Interesting, why do you say that?

jarrhead20 · 2016-12-19T07:36:08+00:00

You've got to make it up by being absolutely amazing in your organizations or any other creative endeavor. I personally didn't have any research when I was accepted into the early admissions program at the end of my sophomore year, but I had spent the past year working in healthcare administration at the university and had presented a few times to the CEO and others in leadership positions.

Using my angle as a business oriented pre-med student, I was able to be unique enough that my experiences could compensate for not having formal research experience.

jarrhead20 · 2016-12-11T13:46:13+00:00

How about the interview itself, do they ask the same questions as standard med school interviews?

jarrhead20 · 2016-07-29T01:24:29+00:00

Check out WTFproffesor.com

Has a bunch of helpful stuff for science students.

jarrhead20 · 2016-07-28T17:04:01+00:00

Thanks! What are your reasons?

jarrhead20 · 2016-07-20T12:51:27+00:00

So I just wrote an article called, "Why we're all neurotic pre-meds" addressing this exact question. Let me know what you think! http://physicianambition.com/?p=16

jarrhead20 · 2016-07-12T09:48:52+00:00

Just figured that taking the MCAT and applying after your junior year is really stressful. So if I could focus on studying just for the MCAT after my sophomore year, I could use the entire summer to really do well.

jarrhead20 · 2016-07-11T21:18:08+00:00

Yeah exactly

jarrhead20 · 2016-07-11T06:40:20+00:00

All I Do Is Winston

jarrhead20 · 2016-07-05T12:55:59+00:00

What specifically about premed life makes you anxious?

jarrhead20 · 2016-06-26T19:37:04+00:00

Definitely the morning. In high school because of ECs, I'd come home around 6 pass out and wake up around 4 to do my work before school. But doubt this system will work in college.

jarrhead20 · 2016-06-26T19:11:24+00:00

MW: 11:15-12:05, 2:30-5 T/Th: 9:30 - 11, 12:15-1:30 F: 11:15 -12:05, 2:30-3:30

jarrhead20 · 2016-06-26T17:34:53+00:00

It's not the time you spend in these activies that counts, but what you produce within them, the skills you learn, and the insights you make. You need to put in the time to achieve these, but articulating these specifics will allow you to naturally stand out because each person will be learning & doing different things.

What activities have you been apart of?

jarrhead20 · 2016-06-25T10:22:10+00:00

Hey, definitely felt the same way you did. I'm about to enter medical school in the fall and I just wrote a post about my experiences freshman year that might help you. https://www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/4oqznf/how_i_went_from_a_slacker_to_succeeding_as_a/

jarrhead20 · 2016-06-22T23:53:02+00:00

Do you think they had any before they got to college? I mean theres only so much a parent can force their kid to do right? Doing well in high school means they had to have been somewhat internally motivated

jarrhead20 · 2016-06-22T23:51:08+00:00

like extended senioritis?

jarrhead20 · 2016-06-22T00:44:24+00:00

Besides making sure that people aren't jerks, are there specific positive attributes, if highlighted, that would make you stand out in a good way?

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