How To Make It Through Medical School 2023 -10 steps

Today, I will show you 10 steps that will help you make it through medical school. Making it in medical school is not an easy job for someone who is not focused on want they want to achieve. If done correctly, you could have a smooth transition, if done incorrectly, you may be stressed to the point that you feel like giving up.
In medical school, you are taught a lot of information n over a little amount of time. You have to know how to manage your time to be successful. Let me give you some tips:

Believe in yourself

Having an attitude of a winner is a must-have, pick yourself up when you feel like giving up. Medical School is not for the faint-hearted. You will be very occupied with a lot of content that you have to master over a short period. You might feel like giving up at times but don’t. Believe me, everything will become easier if you just believe in yourself.

Have a Timetable

This will help you manage your time well. It also ensures that you don’t prioritise some subjects more than others. Just make sure you follow it to the later. If it’s time for Anatomy, for example, make sure you study anatomy, or you might end up reading some subjects more than others.

Have a hobby.

Don’t just be a book warmer. Get an activity that can help you clear your mind and make you relax your mind. Go for a jog, or even play football. This will help your body relax and rejuvenate your mind.

Get A Study Partner.

There are a lot of things to learn, and you won’t be able to do it alone. Get a study partner, particularly someone who is more focused and clever. This will help you cover a lot over time, and you will see lots of improvement. You will bear with me, witness, that your friend will find some topics easier to understand, and you will also find different topics easier to understand. Take this opportunity to share. Remember, teaching someone something you know will ensure you never forget that topic.

Make YouTube your friend.

There are a lot of procedures that you have to master. Reading these procedures alone from textbooks won’t be of any great benefit. You need to see and do it. It has been scientifically proven that it is easier to understand something that you see being done practically than it is to do something you read. There is no place to learn like youtube, head over there and make your learning in medical school easy and fun.

 

Eat well.

For your mind to perform well, it needs its glucose. Ensure that you have your breakfast every day. Many students tend to skip breakfast, not knowing that this is the most important meal of the day. Ensure your meals consist of a balanced diet containing all the nutrients required by your body.

Get Up For A Jog

Exercising will keep your body’s metabolism up, and activate your adrenaline, which is good for burning fat, and preventing conditions like obesity. You don’t have to hit the gym, you can take a 30-minute walk or jog.

Get good friends.

Life in medical school can be so harsh, but don’t let it prevent you from living a normal life. Go out, have fun on the weekends, make friends, and go to parties with your friends. You can even get a girlfriend. This life is short, don’t waste it, use it wisely.

 

Get good sleep.

For your mind to be really focused, you need good sleep. Good sleep does not only refresh your mind but also relaxes your body and helps grow healthy and strong. I know you must read, but if your mind is tired, let it rest. Studies have proven that people who get good sleep have the highest level of concentration and retain what they have learnt.

I know many of you will agree that when you start reading after a good sleep, you notice that you retain information for a longer period of time. I like taking a 30-minute nap in the afternoon during my 2-hour break, and I found it very useful because I understand my afternoon lectures well.

Do a lot of practice questions.

After reading a topic, get some questions to challenge your understanding of the topic. Where will I find MCQ questions? Don’t worry, I got you, we have started a project where we provide MCQ questions for various topics plus answers. Plus there are tons of websites out there that provide questions and answers to help you gauge your understanding of the topics you have read. One example that I can really recommend is Geeky Medic. They have tons of MCQs that will definitely help you learn better.

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Join forums for medical students.

This is a bonus for you guys. Joining forums will not only help you learn through discussion, but you also will have a chance of interacting with a variety of people from the medical community and might learn a lot. In forums, you can always get to ask questions on specific topics, like Anatomy. This is not all, you can also get to share your ideas and experiences with each other, therefore building an online community and family of medics. Join our forum today, help us build it and grow our own family.

I hope these tips help you in your journey to becoming the best medic out there. Please leave a comment down below and share with us your ideas and experiences.