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Below is some relatively brief, general advice I have.
Disclaimer, I am just one person and based off my personal experience 🙂
General Advice and Resources for Medical School
Premed
- Focus on doing what you love, better invest well into a few things really well than spread yourself out too thin. You can speak on things in interviews better as well.
- Shadow primary care as well as specialty care, preferably for a few days to see how the career is for you.
- Try to study for the MCAT like you can only take it once. I thought 3 months was a good amount of time, and I also had a part-time job which helped break up the day.
- Plan your LORs and store on interfolio or related service for convenience
- Apply broadly and practice interviewing
Preclinical
- Anki especially for bugs/drugs any concept you didn’t connect to get a practice question correct. Edit Anking cards heavily if needed to suit your specific weaknesses, and be picky with unsuspending
- Consulting reddit and upperclassmen
- Most of the things I did in preclinical were to set a strong foundation and can be found in the studying tips for Step 1 document below.
- Favorite video resources: physeo, pathoma, Bootcamp, Sketchy, Pixorize (outstanding for biochem/genetic disorders/vitamins/immuno/neuro)
Studying Tips for Step 1. Last updated 10/10/2024.
Clinical
- Only half way through, but can advise regarding internal medicine, surgery, and neurology
- Treat your patients with the love and dedication you would a loved one, helps with the pressure of clinical rotations. Can be subjective, so as long as you’re trying your best for your patients, hopefully things work out enough.
- Speak to other people regarding how you can be useful and ask for feedback, try to review rubrics if available.
- Sleep enough and do practice as many practice questions from UW and Amboss and remember the real patient behind each question (helps a bit when you’re tired). In last 2 weeks, exclusively focus on the 8 NBME practice exams and review every explanation. Concepts that you missed into Anki (low card burden since a lot of the clinical reasoning builds upon on itself)
- Dr. High Yield and Divine Intervention right before the shelf. I don’t use OME.