When I tell students “before you learn WHAT to study, you need to learn HOW you learn”… there’s a reason medical school literally had us do this in our first week. 🧠📚 One of the tools we used was the VARK Learning Styles Questionnaire, which looks at how you prefer to take in and work with infor

PQ4R helps fix that by making reading interactive instead of passive. This method works especially well if you struggle with retention from textbook-heavy courses. The Study Method That Stops “I Read It But Don’t Remember It” Ever finished an entire chapter… and retained approximately ✨nothing✨?

The method? Make tiny 6–8 slide PowerPoints on each topic. For diseases: 🦠 what it is 🧬 transmission 🩺 symptoms 🔬 diagnosis 💊 treatment 📊 diagram For anatomy? Same idea. And suddenly you’re building your own mini Netflix library of science notes 😌 Why this works: 🧠 Generative learning

On this day last year, I was questioning whether I would achieve the goals I’d worked so hard for. Every day felt like a waiting game. My future was sitting in the hands of medical school admissions committees and immigration officers, and no matter how hard I worked, so much was out of my control.

For the longest time, I thought studying meant consuming information. Read the chapter. Highlight aggressively. Re-read until my eyes dissociate. Then I learned one of the most effective study methods is actually forcing your brain to retrieve information. Enter: brain dumping. The method: Tak

And yes, there are real challenges. But one thing I hear repeatedly from women with ADHD? “I notice patterns FAST.” This may show up as: connecting ideas quickly spotting inconsistencies noticing subtle social shifts recognizing trends in data seeing solutions others miss Why? Potential