Divine Intervention Episode 498: The Successful Dedicated Period (Part 1)

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Divine-Favour Anene

Medicine, Education, Science & Medicine, Higher Education

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🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A major determinant of your performance on the USMLE exams lies in how your dedicated period is constructed. In this podcast, I begin a deep dive into very practical principles that can help with properly structuring your dedicated period. I will continue this discussion in Ep 499. Definitely worthwhile if you are going to have … Continue reading Divine Intervention Episode 498: The Successful Dedicated Period (Part 1)

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0:00.0	Welcome, this is episode 498 of the Divine Intervention Podcast.
0:06.0	On today's podcast, I'm going to be addressing a topic I'd like to title
0:11.0	the successful dedicated period. The successful dedicated period.
0:22.0	Many people have a dedicated period for their USMI exams, be it step one, step two, step three.
0:30.0	The problem for many people is they don't structure these periods well.
0:36.0	The thing is the way you structure a dedicated period has a very huge influence on how successful they are going to be during that time.
0:45.0	You see some people they have three months to study and you still end up with a mediocre score.
0:56.2	You see others, they have only four weeks to study and they end up with an excellent score. You may see two people, they
1:01.9	start off their four- week dedicated period with the same baseline
1:07.2	But then they end up getting you notice that wow the final scores come out
1:16.2	One person did really well, one person did not do as well. So what are the factors that playing to a successful
1:21.8	dedicated period.
1:23.0	I'm going to try to focus on those in this podcast.
1:27.0	I'm going to discuss a series of principles
1:30.0	that will help you structure a dedicated period well.
1:35.0	So what's principle number one?
1:38.0	The principle number one is the principle of subject days. The principle of subject days. This is going to run counter to a lot of what you see out there.
1:51.8	Well this is one of the best ways to make your
1:55.8	dedicated period more efficient and also help you remember a lot of stuff very
2:01.4	well. Now the classic advice out there is do questions random every single
2:09.6	day. That is the classic advice from many people.
2:14.0	But the thing is, most people would do a lot better if each of their study days had a particular focus.
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