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How to Succeed at Medical School: An Essential Guide to Learning
Can you adapt to the wide variety of learning environments in medicine? Can you learn for exams at the same time as training to be a doctor? Can you stay focused on the future while getting today’s job done? Can you achieve a life-work balance? How to Succeed at Medical School will help you learn these vital skills, and much more. This excellent guide to the study skills essential for surviving and thriving at medical school gives you insight into what to expect, covering the early days right through to clinical attachments. With case studies, illustrations, quotes from other students, tip boxes, exercises, portfolios, and learning techniques to help you communicate and to study and revise — it’s jam-packed to help you succeed! Written by experienced medical school teachers, this is your guide from the start of medical school to the start of your medical career. Pre-publication reviews: "… I learned a lot, found the enthusiasm of the text motivating and inspiring and really enjoyed reading it."
–Second year medical student, Royal Free and UCL "I just wish this book had been available when I started my clinical placements."
–Second year medical student, University of Liverpool "It helps aid students to learn effectively and efficiently and even tells you how you will know when you know enough!"
–Professor Parveen Kumar
–Second year medical student, Royal Free and UCL "I just wish this book had been available when I started my clinical placements."
–Second year medical student, University of Liverpool "It helps aid students to learn effectively and efficiently and even tells you how you will know when you know enough!"
–Professor Parveen Kumar
192 pages, Paperback
First published September 28, 2009
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April 25, 2015
Its like studying how to study!
Despite the general information that might suit a student from another, there are some facts that I personally have never come a cross of or even thought about in depth ..
Such as the portfolio & reflection chapter, I really wished that I have read this before but hopefully there is still time to go back through and continue on writing a better experience.. My medical school does actually offer a portfolio program but I actually never have benefit from it ..
This is a good book to review methods of studying you have owned before medicene and how they changed to cope with this highly demanding field ..
Despite the general information that might suit a student from another, there are some facts that I personally have never come a cross of or even thought about in depth ..
Such as the portfolio & reflection chapter, I really wished that I have read this before but hopefully there is still time to go back through and continue on writing a better experience.. My medical school does actually offer a portfolio program but I actually never have benefit from it ..
This is a good book to review methods of studying you have owned before medicene and how they changed to cope with this highly demanding field ..
July 11, 2019
In the name Yahuveh
I want to write my opinion about this book.
In my opinion the first and second chapters of the book are wonderful which forced me to say author God bless you!
Other chapters are useful too but not all subject useful for all years of medical school.
I only have one problem with this book which author wrote study only 10 hours are average study time for learning in medical school.
If I remember true according AAMS the average study time by medical student is 21 or 24 hours each week without university.
And of course with only 10 hours with optimistic, no one can study medicine.
Isa Yazdankarimi
I want to write my opinion about this book.
In my opinion the first and second chapters of the book are wonderful which forced me to say author God bless you!
Other chapters are useful too but not all subject useful for all years of medical school.
I only have one problem with this book which author wrote study only 10 hours are average study time for learning in medical school.
If I remember true according AAMS the average study time by medical student is 21 or 24 hours each week without university.
And of course with only 10 hours with optimistic, no one can study medicine.
Isa Yazdankarimi
March 17, 2020
was a great book at giving advice on what to expect at medical school and how to make the most of the work and opportunities given. It also included quotes from students at different phases of study. It was good to get a variety of options and tips for tackling medical school.
November 3, 2021
Good overview with some useful tips for making the most out of your studies.
December 31, 2022
Being proactive on placements
November 26, 2021
The best part of this book is that in every chapter, it reminds you each student is unique. Students should be flexible and find what works best for them not their peers. It taught me much about OSCEs because I didn’t have any ideas about it! It worths your time, I recommend it for every medical students.
March 17, 2016
Very detailed book that offers different ways to master huge amounts of information in med school.
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