Undergrad
Hey MedHopeful, how do you cram for exams?
I am still exhausted after my 3 hour med school exam yesterday morning which covered topics ranging from cancer to pregnancy. I’m exhausted not so much by the exam (it was only 3 hours after all), but mostly because of all the work leading up to the exam. For this exam, we covered 6 weeks [...]
How To Get That A+ In Every Course
Shelly here. Hello medhopeful readers…! First of all, I apologize for not posting at all this summer. To make up for it, I promise to post regularly, starting now. School has started up again, and seeing the first year medical students in our building definitely makes me feel like an old school veteran. Next year [...]
What do I want out of my university education?
About a year and a half ago, I wrote an article on my thoughts about what to keep in mind when applying to university, using my personal experience as an example. In that article, I focused mostly on figuring out which university fits you best based on program, location, opportunities, etc. However, there is one [...]
Why GPA Should Matter and Learning the Way You Learn Best
This past Monday I took my Metabolism and Nutrition mid-term (I think I passed…) As usual (and as expected) the weekend was a major cram session, and I finally turned into bed at 4 am (where I proceeded to roll around in bed with my mind constructing random thoughts about hypokalemia which made no sense [...]
What’s up with premed altruism and nobility?
As I have mentioned many times before, I feel like our education system was developed with altruism and nobility at its core. I have seen it all the way from elementary school to undergraduate university (though obviously much less so at higher levels at education). While I think it’s nice that we’re taught to do [...]
Why You Should Job Shadow
The other day, someone asked me if I could write an article on shadowing. While I don’t have any real advice for finding mentors to shadow besides “just asking”, I remembered an article I wrote a few years ago about my experience shadowing a physician, and why I thought job shadowing as a whole is [...]
Medaholic.com – Why Grades Matter
The following is a guest post from my good friend over at Medaholic.com. He is currently a first year medical student and is involved in his school’s admissions process. His blog is fantastic, so check it out! Why do grades matter so much when it comes to getting into medical school? We’ve all seen people [...]
University Pet Peeves
I’d like to think that I am pretty happy with my university experience for the most part. But if I’m going to be honest, there are some every day type things or situations that annoy me a bit, and well, today I feel like talking about them! Don’t worry, the list isn’t that long, I’m [...]
Tips for Multiple Choice Tests
I love multiple choice tests more than any other type of tests. They’re great because you don’t even have to know the answer to have a shot at getting a question right! Especially when it comes to courses where you are expected to know a lot of information (e.g. biology), it helps when you only [...]
How I Aced First Year University Science – Part 5: The Art of Test-Taking
Some students may think that you just study and go in and do the test. I don’t think it’s that simple. While I have said that preparation is the hard part and taking the test is the relatively easy part, I would say that is true, but only if you have already mastered what I [...]
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