90: Study Habits and Tips for the Premed Student
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Ryan talks with Lea, a premed student at Pitzer College in California. Today she shares with us tips for developing study habits, preparing for the MCAT, the 7-year BA/DO program that she’s currently attending, the tools and resources she used along the journey, and just a little bit of everything.
Links and Other Resources
- Full Episode Blog Post
- College Info Geek from Thomas Frank
- Study Hacks Blog from Cal Newport
- Related episode: How Do I Remember Material I Studied Four Months Ago?
- Related episode: How Can I Best Utilize Mnemonics for the MCAT?
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Transcript
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| 0:49.7 | The Medical School HQ Podcast, Session Number 90. |
| 0:56.0 | Understanding the importance of knowing what works for you and you know I at my school there's |
| 1:02.4 | Starbucks, there's you know all these little |
| 1:04.1 | coffee shops and I see you know groups studying together but they're talking about you |
| 1:08.3 | know other things their book is open but they're not studying hey this is Z dog |
| 1:12.1 | MD rapper physician legendary but they're not studying. Hey, this is Z Dog MD, rapper, physician, |
| 1:14.2 | legendary, legendary, turntable health revolutionary |
| 1:16.7 | and part-time Gardner. |
| 1:18.0 | And you're listening to the Medical School HQ |
| 1:20.4 | podcast hosted by the irredeemably awesome Ryan Gray. And I believe that competition |
| 1:39.6 | amongst your pre-med and medical student peers is detrimental to becoming a great physician. |
| 1:46.0 | In this podcast we show you how collaboration, hard work, and honesty are critical to becoming |
| 1:51.8 | a superior physician in today's health care |
| 1:55.0 | environment. As always I want to thank you for joining me here for episode |
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