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Tips for New and Incoming Medical Students


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I thought it would be a nice idea to have a sticky with tips for incoming students. Feel free to add to them with your own!

 

I've taken the main points from http://www.mommd.com/medstudenttips.shtml - visit the article for some more depth on the points I mentioned.

 

- Team up with classmates :study groups

- Make a schedule that works for you: non traditional students study in non traditional ways!

- Stress out with friends

- Get Ahead

- Don't Cram late at night

- Bad test scores happen

- Write notes- especially during clincial experiences

- Talk to your patients and learn from the experience

- Work as part of the healthcare team.

- Stick your nose into topics that interest you

- Show enthusiasim

- Be confident and assertive - ask questions, answer confidently

- Don't be afraid to ask for help

- If you don't know, say you don't know but would like to learn.

- Ask to do procedures or to be walked through the process whenever you can.

- Feeling overwhelmed is normal

- Enjoy the simple pleasures

- Be "well rounded"

-You can and will have a life

- You can do it

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