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.
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: What kind of learner are you?
Chapter 2: Learning knowledge
Chapter 3: Learning clinical skills
Chapter 4: Learning clinical communication skills
Chapter 5: Working in a group
Chapter 6: Developing your academic writing skills
Chapter 7: Portfolios and reflection
Chapter 8: Life-work balance
Chapter 9: Revision
Chapter 10: Exam technique: general rules
Chapter 11: Exam technique: specific examples
Chapter 12: Thinking ahead: student-selected components, careers and Electives
Index
