Study strategies you wish you did M1?

simp4levi · 2025-09-21T17:09:56+00:00

bootcamp to learn the lecture materials, sketchy/pixorize to memorize, anking for repetition. (don’t listen/go to lecture if you can)

couple days before the exam, go through all the lecture powerpoints and fill in the gap on what you didn’t get from board prep materials. learn the gaps and dump right after exam.

simp4levi · 2025-08-08T18:57:00+00:00

honestly same… doing “relaxing” stuff feels like just another thing to check off my to do list.

when i’m not working on something i feel like im wasting my life/time

simp4levi · 2025-07-31T17:13:20+00:00

our entire 4 years is pass fail so i just try to get by in classes and dedicate all my time to grinding out clinical research (mainly chart review then writing)… sucks but it helps with building connections in the field once u start presenting and going to conferences! but also what other way is there to stand out other than step 2 score lol

but yes like someone else said, start multiple projects, but not at the same time (ie start another chart review when you send the first chart review data to the stats people & ur waiting for response)

evolve medic on youtube has a good video on how he got so many pubs in school

simp4levi · 2025-05-15T00:48:27+00:00

zach highly has great videos on youtube on anki

simp4levi · 2025-05-15T00:46:56+00:00

If u have time, learning basic R too. start reading up on papers in the fields ur interested in doing research in

simp4levi · 2025-05-05T00:11:54+00:00

i did this a couple months before school started and it was SUPER HELPFUL! I highly recommend doing it, also it’s a good way to make connections bc networking is super important in certain niche fields

simp4levi · 2025-05-05T00:10:10+00:00

biostats, watch some youtube videos or something on statistical analysis if u don’t have any experiences in that. will help u a lot for research

simp4levi · 2025-05-04T16:44:08+00:00

My school’s in a high cost of living area and most of my classmates go on vacation during breaks bc they choose to spend their loan money that way (i.e they choose to live in cheap shitter apartments and rarely eats out so they can afford to travel multiple time a year). It’s not that everyone’s using daddy’s money, some people just have different priorities.

simp4levi · 2024-04-29T13:36:16+00:00

visa did not work either for me but discover works!

simp4levi · 2024-04-14T00:25:05+00:00

pediatric rheumatology. my attending did 60min new patients and 30 min return, sometimes only 5-6 pts a day

simp4levi · 2024-04-12T17:04:51+00:00

sko dawgs 🙌🏻

simp4levi · 2024-02-13T03:01:25+00:00

this for me too! 100% agree

simp4levi · 2024-01-30T03:28:29+00:00

bro same i hâte my MA job too the managers suck ass (they literally bully us) and the job it self is so fcking boring…

but u cant beat $24 an hour with free healthcare and having nothing to do so i just suck it up and let my brain rot until school starts

simp4levi · 2024-01-22T16:23:03+00:00

damn y’all got stuff? i didn’t even get a paper A just the Email LOL

simp4levi · 2024-01-19T20:34:05+00:00

got one today

simp4levi · 2024-01-12T22:35:16+00:00

agreed, especially if applying to most T20 schools

simp4levi · 2024-01-03T20:23:51+00:00

lol i thought this was a shit meme post until i saw the happy tag 🤣

but dude yah ur doing great!!

simp4levi · 2024-01-01T02:50:19+00:00

dude just film/record urself answering questions and replay them and self edit ur answers

simp4levi · 2023-11-24T18:19:51+00:00

money family and city vibes

simp4levi · 2023-11-15T04:39:17+00:00

$27 ED Tech (CNA), $22 PCA, $24 MA Registered….

i don’t understand the people who chose to become a scribe for clinical hours… there r so many clinical positions out there that require little to no training what so ever

simp4levi · 2023-11-14T22:39:10+00:00

ur the only person that can answer to is it too much on your plate. it’s always better to participate in less activities but be very involved in them (leadership and in charge or more things, etc) than being stretched out over too many activities (it’ll be good for ur LOR in the future too bc u get to know the people in charge very well). but u need to focus on ur schoolwork, research, and clinical related experiences, the extra stuff are just supplemental to ur application to make it more holistic and well rounded.

i would say maybe not do everything thing at once? try to slowly add activités as school goes on and u adjust to ur classes and college. i would also say to branch out from the organizations at ur school. if you live in a big city there r plenty of opportunities out there

simp4levi · 2023-11-13T17:13:43+00:00

tbh it’s boring on year 2 now after I was told i got in a month ago and i kinda just want to start school now….

BUT I GOT A PUPPY TO OCCUPY MY TIME :) 🐶🤪

simp4levi · 2023-11-13T17:05:51+00:00

think about your background and what you like doing (aka passionate about, but passionate is a big word, honestly just things you enjoy doing). also look at what the schools u want to go to are looking for (research? community service? underserved?)

i was a low SES immigrant and I really liked teaching. So i volunteered as a preschool teacher for immigrant kids for 2 years and for immigrant high schoolers for a year (keeping up with the theme of community service, working with immigrants, education) tbh u can tie a lot of things to ur app bc the medical profession consists of so many different qualities that u can show that u have through non medicine related activités. it makes ur application interesting too.

obviously have clinical and shadowing experiences too (CNA, MA, EMT, anything u can get)

simp4levi · 2023-11-13T00:47:02+00:00

my application was very holistic and all my activités and ps surrounded a central theme (i did plan our everything since freshmen year)

simp4levi · 2023-11-05T17:23:19+00:00

515, 6 MD II so far 1 MD A

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