Improve Studying with a ¨Winner´s Brain¨

I stumbled across this article from Harvard Medical School called ¨Cultivating a ´Winner´s Brain´¨ which has several applications for pre med students.
When procrastination is a problem, the issue may be that the task at hand seems too big to accomplish. The authors suggest that people first envision or “map” the multiple steps necessary for reaching [...]

Pre Med Resources

This is the best list of relevant websites, articles and blogs regarding the pre med journey that you will find on the internet. Bookmark this. I’ll be updating the list as I find more useful info.
Pre Med Basics

Pre-requisites for Medical Schools. These are the undergraduate classes you need to take to apply to most medical [...]

Health Care Reform Primer for Pre Med Students

‘”I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.”
- President Obama in his address to congress last night
Health care reform is dominating the American public discourse currently, and with good reason. As future physicians, you have a responsibility to understand these issues. It will affect [...]

Winter Term Sucks: Here Are 4 Tips to Make it Better

It’s cold. It’s dark. You have a frustrating group lab project hanging over your head. You hate life right now…it’s winter term.
Trust me, I can relate. While I was in school, this was my least favorite time of year. The lack of daylight and cold weather piled on top of tough coursework made life miserable [...]

Pre Meds- Are You Ready for a Commitment to a Life of Medicine?

It’s a question you need to consider deeply on a regular basis. It’s a question to which you cannot provide a fake answer. It’s a question that may provoke hours of thought and conversation, which may or may not provide an encouraging answer.
It’s easy to dismiss the question. It’s easy to tell yourself [...]

Exam Success Tip: Find Old Tests

Tests are hard. Studying for tests is hard. Tests suck.
And science courses use tests to determine your grade. Instead of writing papers (with the exception of lab reports), you take tests. And tests suck.
It’s especially troublesome if you don’t take tests well.
So here’s the best test-taking tip I can give you:

Find a mentor. Now.

I just watched Good Will Hunting. What a great movie. Will Hunting is a troubled young genius in need of some direction in his life. Who to turn to in such a time of need? Robin Williams of course!
Maybe some of you can relate to the burden of superior brainpower and the subsequent need for [...]