How to Succeed at Medical School: An Essential Guide to Learning (HOW - How To)

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How to Succeed at Medical School: An Essential Guide to Learning 3. Can you adapt to the wide variety of learning environments in medicine? Can you learn for exams at the same time as training to be a doctor? Can you stay focused on the future while getting today's job done? Can you achieve a life-work balance?

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How to Succeed at Medical School will help you learn these vital skills, and much more. This excellent guide to the study skills essen Can you adapt to the wide variety of learning environments in medicine? This excellent guide to the study skills essential for surviving and thriving at medical school gives you insight into what to expect, covering the early days right through to clinical attachments.

With case studies, illustrations, quotes from other students, tip boxes, exercises, portfolios, and learning techniques to help you communicate and to study and revise -- it's jam-packed to help you succeed! Written by experienced medical school teachers, this is your guide from the start of medical school to the start of your medical career.

I learned a lot, found the enthusiasm of the text motivating and inspiring and really enjoyed reading it. Paperback , pages.

How to Succeed in Medical School – The Ultimate Guide

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How to Succeed at Medical School: An Essential Guide to Learning

Mar 31, Shatha Al-Jamhoor rated it liked it. Its like studying how to study! Despite the general information that might suit a student from another, there are some facts that I personally have never come a cross of or even thought about in depth.. My medical school does actually offer a portfolio program but I actually never have benefit from it.. T Its like studying how to study!

This is a good book to review methods of studying you have owned before medicene and how they changed to cope with this highly demanding field.. Creating the Health Care Team of the Future. Performance and the Medical Body. How to Become an Optometrist. Managing the Critically Ill Child. How to write a great review. The review must be at least 50 characters long.

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How to Succeed in Medical School - The Ultimate Guide

Please review your cart. I'd recommend people to read this book early on in their medical career, because if read later, you'll only kick yourself for the fact that you have missed out on being able to implement all the hints and tips earlier. I'd even recommend some sections to non-medical students who are starting university as they would also gain a lot from this book. To be truthful, I would never have considered buying a book on such a topic as I always thought that this information would be given at medical school, or that we would pick it up along the way just as every other student would.

However, having read this book now, I really do think it would set a student ahead of his peers and allow them to take full opportunity of everything that comes their way. I would definitely advise this book as a gift idea for those who want to buy a gift for those who have just been offered a place in medical school, because this book is not one that I would have gone out to actively buy, yet it would be one that I would really benefit in reading before medical school.

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In terms of competition, there are a few books out on the market such as "so you want to be a brain surgeon Lina Fazlanie, Sheffield Medical School. Overall, I found this book very interesting especially the latter chapters, which I found more relevant to my stage at Medical School 3rd year. I liked how the book was clearly laid out and presented in the Introduction and definitely think having the Foreword written by Dr P Kumar would attract more medical students to read the book.

Maybe the quotes from medical students, should be named the same as how it is done on the back cover e. I think it would be good to also transfer diagrams onto the same page as when it is referred to in the text, as it is annoying having to keep flicking through the pages back and forth.

I would definitely recommend this book to a friend, whether they are a prospective medical student or a medical student having problems at medical school. Jennifer Ho, Nottingham Medical School. The questions and answers at the end of each chapter were very useful and interesting to read.

Initially I found the student comments punctuated throughout the chapters slightly irritating- they grew on me though and I found them increasingly useful as the book progressed. Generally, an excellent guide to navigating your way through medical school, which is often quite a challenging and daunting experience. As a final year medical student, I have negotiated myself successfully through the majority of my time in medical school.

It has been testing to say the least, and my success thus far has involved an enormous amount of trial, accompanied with a slightly less amount of error. Thus, one begins to settle on a routine or rules of thumb by which life in medical school is dictated. It contributed nicely to the personable style of the book and added weight to the opinions expressed by the author. Either way, I found myself agreeing with much of what was being said throughout the book. When it comes to revising for an exam, the same exam technique will not suit everyone.

The authors are acutely aware of this and demonstrate this throughout the book. The chapter on learning knowledge was very informative and I found myself taking notes on how my study and lecture note-taking could be refined to become more efficient. As a medical student, we are drilled on the importance on evidence-based practice; a similar approach is adopted in this chapter and others, whereby different models of evidence-based learning are presented and their relative merits assessed.

I found the biological theories of how these learning mechanisms work e. This is coupled with quirky tips, such as burning rosemary oil to increase your memory while you study, and lends to an overall very entertaining and engaging read. This aspect of optimizing life as a medical student is explored throughout the book.

Studying medicine often involves pouring over reams of exam notes and books and, it is not difficult to become overburdened. This, along with the high expectations often heaped upon entrants to medical school means many can struggle with the work-life balance - an issue I have struggled with myself in the past. I found the chapter discussing this work-life balance particularly helpful, which offered workable solutions to deal with study procrastination and time and stress management — aspects of life that are crucial to the aspiring successful medical student.

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