Hey babe how come you never study? Especially in your vlog. I study at home when I'm not vlogging. It's like a skewed sample 'cause when I'm vlogging by default I'm not studying. So in my vlogs I'm not studying. Hello! I'm waiting for brunch. We're here at The Penrose. My Warby Parker box just came, so I'm just gonna open it for you guys! You excited? So what do you guys think? Okay so it's gonna take me a little while to get used to these new glasses so I'm actually gonna put on my old ones and I actually haven't done any studying today so.. it's time to do a little studying : If you're a medical student you have access to this website and you can join and this website actually has all these practice questions so that's what I'm gonna be doing for the next couple weeks of studying. So Family Medicine rotations in terms of schedule is a lot easier than some of my previous rotations. Obviously ob-gyn I was getting up at 4:30 in the morning or 5 in the morning. For family medicine sometimes I don't have to be in the office until noon sometimes 9am. Generally so it's a much easier schedule and I have a lot of time to do other stuff. But in terms of shelf I heard that it's one of the hardest shelf exams. Because if you think about it Family Medicine doctor sees a little bit of everything. Whenever there is something wrong most people go to their Family Medicine doctor first. So the shelf exams covers a lot of topics and I've heard that it's a difficult shelf exam so what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to front load a lot of my studying. Usually for like a 6 week rotation I don't really start studying until week 3, at least not seriously anyway. So that's about halfway to my rotations I don't start studying but for Family Medicine I'm gonna try to do a lot of studying earlier probably just study hard the whole time. I've started doing some case files, I've started doing some questions on the AAFP website so hopefully that will help me cover a lot of the stuff early on and hopefully I can do well on the shelf exam.

Okay, so time to start studying! So speaking of studying. I'm gonna do a little video on my study tips. I've been getting a lot of questions about this topic and I know it's a huge topic and the way you do study might differ a lot on what you're studying but I wanted to make a general video that might apply to high school students, university students and med school students as well. So if you found something that already works for you that's good you probably don't need this video but if you're wondering where to start or how to get started I'll share some of my tips with you guys. So time to move to the big camera. Tip number 1 When to study: study like it’s your full time job. You may have a part time or even a full time job while attending school. That’s great- but don’t forget that being a student is also a job. It’s something you signed up for and it’s something you’re responsible for. It requires the same or even greater amount of time and effort as a full time job. It doesn’t have to be 9-5 and the number of hours per day probably depend on what you’re studying. But the point is your studies should really be the priority and the main focus of your life as a student. Here is example of how I do that. You can start by using your exam dates as landmarks and divide up the work evenly among the days you plan to study, make sure you add in some rest days, and stick to your planned schedule. For example, if you have 10 days to study for your exam, you can divide the entire exam material into 10 and cover a little bit each day. Obviously if there a harder topic, you might want to spend a little longer on that topic until you feel comfortable. My general rule of thumb is, study and review what you learned that day and at the end of the week, review everything you learned that week by doing questions. And repeat. Tip Number 2 Make specific plans on what to study. If you don’t know where to start, look at the table of contents in your textbook or the syllabus.

If you went over a chapter in class today, then your outline should look something like the outline of the chapter in your textbook. Make a list of topics or concepts you need to master. For whatever reason, it makes a big difference to me when I make a little box next to the list and check things off as I go. I’ve seen a lot of residents do it during my rotations- it just helps with getting things done. Tip number 3 is Test yourself. There are many ways to “master” a concept. You can read, you can outline, you can use memorization tools like anki or flashcards. At the end of the day, you need to test to see if you really know your material. Let’s say you are covering a small topic in biology DNA replication. At the end of your study session, you should be able to teach to a fellow student how DNA replication works. I tend to talk out loud to myself while I study to make sure I really understand something. I don’t wait to do this at the end of the day- I do this every couple paragraphs I go over. It might sound crazy but I talk out loud as if there is a student that I am tutoring- and I go step by step about how DNA replication is done. It helps to draw things out with AND without looking at your notes. Tip number 4 is Do practice questions: if you’re studying for a science or math class, you HAVE to have done a lot of practice questions before taking the exam. Your exam cannot be the first time you’re doing questions on the topics that you learned. That’s because you actually learn a lot by doing questions. I personally learn more by doing questions than straight up reading the textbook. If I’m really short on time, there are times I would go straight to a good question bank with thorough explanations on right and wrong answers and learn my highest yield items from there. When you get something wrong, read the explanations and go back to tip #3 and explain to yourself or your invisible friend or a real friend why the right answer is the right answer and why what you picked is wrong.

This will definitely help to reinforce all the concepts and help you start thinking the way exam makers think which is the ultimate goal to doing well in class! So that is all the tips I have for doing well in class and studying effectively. I hope you guys found it helpful So I think I need a change of scenery so I'm gonna go to a coffee shop and try to get some work done. Hey guys! So I just got back from the coffee shop. I got a lot of work done so it was good. When I came back I got a delivery from Hello Fresh. Hell Fresh if you guys don't know is a meal kit delivery service they send you a very easy to make recipes with measured-out ingredients so you don't have to measure anything out since everything is measured out for you. All the recipes are actually designed to be made under 30 minutes. So if you're short on time, like me, it's a great investment so that you can have home cooked meals several times a week. For Hello Fresh all the meals and recipes are designed by a dietician so you know everything is nutritionally balanced so I'm really excited to be trying out a recipe from Hello Fresh today. So first I'm gonna unbox everything and show you what I got in the box. So today we're gonna make the Mediterranean Skillet Chicken so I'm super excited and can't wait to show you guys what we make. Lets go! Alright guys! Check out the our final product. Doesn't this look so legit. It looks delicious! Look at all those colors. All those veggies and flavors. So the recipe was super easy to make all the ingredients came measured so there was no waste. I used everything that they sent me. And everything turned out perfectly so if you guys are interested in trying out go to their website HelloFresh.Com. I'll put the link down bellow in the description box and use the code "strive" when you subscribe and you can get $35 off your first week of meals. If you guys try definitely let me know what you guys think.

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