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1. Be An Excellent Manager of Your Own Time
Medical school will overwhelm you. In the four years it will take you to get your MD, you will be presented with more information that you must master than you might have thought possible, even if you did attend a rigorous pre-med program. Accordingly, the first tip to being a good medical student is to develop time-management skills.
2. Be Friends With More Experienced Medical Students
Making connections early in your med school career with students who have been around longer than you can be invaluable. You can learn from their mistakes instead of making them on your own.
3. Be Respectful of Your Own Health
During this overwhelming time, you will be taxing your physical and mental resources to stay on top of your studies. While it’s important that you do well, of course, you must balance your quest for excellence with a commitment to maintaining your health.
4. Be Respectful of The Undertaking
Becoming a doctor is one of the most important things a person can do. Respect this undertaking, and understand that the other aspects of your life (anything non-med-school related) are going to have to take a back seat for a while. A long while.
5. Hit The Books Hard and Often
Get to love studying if you don’t already. There’s only one way to master the amount of information you need to when people’s lives are in your hands, and that’s to immerse yourself in it.
6.Play To Your Strengths, But Don’t Be Limited To Them
Medical school is like any other kind of school in some ways — it’s a learning experience. Do engage in learning opportunities that will showcase your strengths, but also look for ways to grow, to build on areas where you might not be as strong.
7. Choose Your Specialization ASAP
The earlier you can decide about which area of medicine you’d like to practice, the earlier you can become an expert in this area.
8. Find Mentors In Your Field Of Choice
Before you decide on a specialization, talk to the experienced students you know about what they think. Talk to doctors currently practicing in the field that appeals to you. Talk to your instructors. Make professional connections with people who are already doing the kinds of things you want to be doing after you’re out of school.
9. Write As Much As You Can
Med school may be too early to think about publishing your work, but if you are looking for prestige in your field, plan on publishing in the future. The best way to get publication worthy is to write what you can, perhaps by helping already publishing doctors prepare articles.
10. Take The Occasional Break
Good luck with this one!
Watch the video related to medical schools
Medical School Pathology, Chapter 10b: Diseases of Infancy and Childhood
Help answer the question about medical schools
What do medical schools look at for admission?MCAT's and GPA of course, but what else? Does your course load matter, or can you take one class at a time? Does your work history matter? Do medical schools care if you have professional experience in the area of health-care? What else are key factors?
About Author
Review more industry related articles by Elizabeth Saas at CareersandEducation.com. Elizabeth Saas is a feature writer and often covers topics related to Campus degree programs and Career Advice.
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how many caribbeans are there?
hahaha so my favorite part was at 0:57 where you see the guys playing frisbee and one is hopping around all happy…then it cuts to your face and you look sooooo saaaaaadddd haha
I feel like I've seen and answered this question before….
But since you've tweaked the question, I'll tweak the answer.
You seem the most interested in child development, so why not take it. It really, really, REALLY does not matter what you take in high school in terms of getting into med school….you should pick your classes based on what you need to apply to college and what you're most interested in.
There are tons of people who don't even decide they want to go to med school until college….heck, many don't until *after college*..they take the prereq courses, do the volunteer work, and they have no trouble getting in. My high school electives were chorus and drama, and does my med school know that? Nope. Do they care? Nope.
Medical schools don't consider what you do in high school at all….they never ask about high school grades, gpa, etc. and specifically instruct that you *not* include any extracurriculars from high school. They expect–in fact, hope–that you're a very different person as a junior/senior in college than you were as a freshman/sophomore (even senior) in high school…..just like how colleges don't care at all about what you did academically back in 5th grade. So even if you take all medicine-related electives in high school, medical schools will never, ever know (nor care).
What matters most in high school is to get a solid education and to focus on getting into a good college….really. So work hard, get good grades, take challenging classes, rock the SATs, get involved in great extracurriculars. (And hey, since you're interested in medicine, feel free to do volunteer work at your local hospital…if you like.) It's when you're in college that you should worry about tailoring your courseload for applying to medical school….and even then, aside from the required premed classes, you'd be surprised at how little they care about the specifics about what classes you took (they care that you did well, learned a lot, and got excited about them, not what subject they were in).
So take whatever class you're the most excited about….any of those could be fun and even relevant in terms of a career in medicine. Please do feel free to explore your interest in medicine….but do it for yourself, not for some med school admissions committee 7-8 years into the future. (And actually, if you're not a fast typer, keyboarding could be a great idea…my parents made me take it over the summer in high school, and I thanked the gods many times in college–while churning out 20-page papers in 24 hours–that they did.)
Good luck!
Somehow this relieves my doubts about going to medical school.
Thanks.
Fun is the disease, and we… are the cure. Brilliant! Can’t wait to get into medical school. I will fight and won’t stop until I am satisfied.
Delivery of medical services is a human resources problem,not an ecnomic one. Thus throwing money at it will not be as fruitful as training more medical professionals.
Well you say that you want to make more than your dad but then you say its not about the money. I know what you mean by a practical career. I'm going to do my best to help you.
First don't get a liberal arts degree like sociology, english, psychology, philosophy, etc. Liberal arts degrees are very iffy and it can be hard landing a job within your field with just a bachelor's degree. If you want to go outside of the field then its harder for others to respect your degree.
These days specialized jobs and degrees are the best. Actually accountants make really good money. Anywhere from 40-200k. When you get older you wouldn't want to kill yourself. Its not just about money but quality of life too. Also only go to graduate school if you think the degree will make you more money within 3-5 years time, if it doesn't then just stick to the bachelor's.
The way to make money is to start your own business. If you really want to make more, then that is the way to do it. Speaking for myself, I am getting a four year degree in graphic design and I want to own my own design firm. They make good money 100K or more depending on how good you are.
You shouldn't have to go to professional school to make six figures. Think about what you like and look through the occupational outlook handbook link. It has various professions, their earnings, and what degrees and training you need to get there.
If you keep to your plan – if you bring your grades back up to your normal level, or even higher, next term, and then keep them there from now on – you will not have a problem due to that one poor semester. It will be seen as the aberration that it was. It won't overly impact your college admittance process.
You may, however, want to use it as the basis for an essay. Just as you said – you blew it, but you woke up, and used it as a learning experience. Show them that it was just a one-term thing, and it should not be a major impediment.
i am in university of west indies trinidad final yr med school on a break.. i totaally enjoyed that movie clip..
Take a break. Wiggle your fingers around to restore proper blood flow and mobility; do some hand exercises, i.e. grip, ungrip, etc. Run your hand under water: 2 minutes hot/very warm, 30 seconds cold, repeat several times. Gloves probably won't help, but if the skin itself is being worn down consider putting a band-aid over it to reduce friction while still keeping the fingers nimble.
Hey this is in San Antonio, i am from there, but doing medical school in the caribbeans, haha awesome video.
hahah.
Thanks for writing this well researched article. I have been saying this for quite a while now. The amount of money our government spends on medicaid is astronomical. In 1995, total state and fed medicaid spending was approx $156B, in 2004 $309B. In 2004 fed spending alone was $176B. Adults between the age of 21 and 64 without children receive no medicaid benefits at all.
Here is a nice quote
"As noted above, in a recent year in Colorado, the state's emergency Medicaid program paid an estimated $30 million in hospital and physician delivery costs for about 6,000 illegal immigrant mothers – average of $5,000 per baby."
The solution is easy, go after the employers, without jobs, illegals immigration will decline. Force illegals applying for medicaid to reveal their sources of income, then go after the employers.
Go to "numbersUSA" if you want to get active, and work to bring immigration back under control.
wow that was cool
no buddy! I did it…. Just get your G.E. courses out of the way and then transfer 2 a University. U can declare your major at a 2year college and then go on 2 the college that best fits you. If your Pre-med like I was then tell the counselor that you want to be and he or she will give u the courses you need 2 take and tell u the GPA u must have 2 transfer and how many unit course hrs u need 2 transfer 2 a university. I did it and Im in the army and got a wife and 2 year old. You’ll be fine.
Case Western Reserve University.
I'm BME pre-med there and they have the #6 program in the country.
With your score you will probably qualify for a decent scholarship (~17,000 a year for 4 years).
Other schools with good programs that you might consider:
Johns Hopkins, Duke, Georgia Tech, UCSD, MIT, University of Michigan.
Rose might be the #1 engineering school in the nation, but their BME program has only been BMES and ABET accredited since 2007, whereas many of the well-developed programs have been accredited since the 70s – check the website below.
It's a great letter. But to be honest, they will only read letters, emails, short, direct, and to the point. Also, they have no way to know WHO you voted for. However, they do know IF you vote. If you didn't vote in the last general election, it's likely the letter, email, phone call will be disregarded.