I have alluded to the vast differences in life during third year, as compared to the first two years of university, in my previous posts but now is the time to delve into the nitty gritty details of third year. I know this comes on the background of weeks of inactivity on my blog, after …
Continue reading The Jump from Preclinical Medicine to Clinical Medicine
Hi friends, hope you’re all doing well! I thought I’d document this week of university since it was a good mixture of different things I’ve been doing. We’ve not yet started our official placements for this year, so these first four weeks are mainly just to start becoming acclimatised to the wards (we go on …
Continue reading A Week of Med School: Introduction to Clinical Learning
With the start of a new year comes the start of a new organisational system because we all know I spend too much time procrastinating-by-preparation: a fantastic illusion of productivity because you’re still doing something, but it’s questionable whether the time could be spent better doing other things. Maybe something to fire up the neurones …
Hi guys! Hope you’re all doing well, living your best lives. I can’t believe we’re so deep into September already, time feels like it’s slipping out of my hands nowadays, but recently things have picked up a bit again because I’ve started university for this year. I wanted to give you all an update on …
Continue reading COVID, Computers & Communication: A Med School Update
Anki is one of those apps that has quite a steep learning curve, but once you’ve got it figured out, you wonder how you managed to memorise anything without it. Fortunately for you, I’ve dealt with the steep learning curve (with the help of a few good YouTube videos and two years of experience), so …
Continue reading Never Forget Anything Again: A Student’s Guide to Anki
There is something I find so joyful about learning new languages. It truly is one of those things where the destination doesn’t matter; only the journey, because complete mastery & fluency is such a vague term. I would class myself as fluent in English, but that doesn’t mean I don’t discover new words all the …
I'm back, better late than never, with the second part of my anatomy series. This part is based on methods to memorise anatomical knowledge, in particular for OSCE stations focusing on anatomy. Hope you're all staying safe, staying at home, social distancing, and checking up on your friends. Memorising So I've always enjoyed learning for …
Hi guys! Hope you're all doing well and living your best life! I wanted to introduce the first part of a three-part series I'm writing on how I've honed my process of doing anatomy through my time in my first two years of medical school. This part is on how to actually learn and understand …
Hi guys! We have 3 exams left for this week and after tomorrow we'll only have 1, we're slowly but surely getting through it all. My C3 exam today was average at best. Some parts were okay but I thought certain parts of some questions were quite difficult. Regardless, I did as much working as …
