If you are a student in college, I think it is very important that you have an understanding of what kind of learner you are. You can either take a quiz online, or based on your previous studying experiences, you already have an idea of how you study. As a visual and read/write type of learner,

As a medical student, you have to spend a majority of your personal time either studying or being at the hospital and studying, leaving little time for yourself. For this reason, medical students, and doctors, commonly suffer from burnout. This is what I do to prevent burnout: I schedule non-

As a third year medical student, I can speak on the third-party resources I used that helped me do well my first two years of medical school and when/how often I used them. Medschoolbootcamp - I used these for the most difficult classes which for me were renal, pulmonology, and cardiology. I lik

Every medical school's curriculum is divided into pre-clinicals (before rotations/clerkships) and clinicals. Pre-clinicals occur before clinicals, and they are usually the first year to second year of medical school. At my school, pre-clinicals last for about a year and a half, then we have

At the end of every clerkship, students have to take a shelf exam, an hour exam that covers concepts in that subject. In order to do well, you have to balance your time between going to the hospital/clinic and studying at clinic or home. This is what I use to study for clerkships: Boards a

As I became an upperclassman in college as a neuroscience major, my classes became very content heavy. Freshman and sophomore year were easier, a lot of math-heavy classes and I could easily remember content from doing practice questions that were readily available. But as I went into junior and se

Studying for STEP 1 is basically a full-time job. You spend many hours a week doing practice questions, reviewing the questions, reviewing practice exams, learning new content and reviewing past content. Everyone uses different resources and organizes their study schedule differently. Here is wh