Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and thank you for downloading this week's

episode of the EM Clerkship Podcast. I hope you are all doing very well. And as always, shoot me

an email if there are any issues I can help you with, or if you just need somebody to talk to,

I am here for you. I care help you with or if you just need somebody to talk to, I am here

for you. I care about you. Very important content these next few weeks. I have been brainstorming

this for several months, actually. This was going to be the core selling point of a paid

course I was going to develop, actually, on teachable or something,

until I decided that I was just going to do this for free and just, we've had this conversation

before in the real talk episode, how to crush your slow. That was going to be the topic.

That was going to be the course. I was going to call it slow crushers or something stupid.

Anyways, and I didn't want it to be generic, cliche advice. I really wanted to call it slow crushers or something stupid. Anyways, and I didn't want it to be generic

cliche advice. I really wanted to craft an actual system for you, the slow crushers method

or something. Going beyond be professional, own your patience, yada, yada, yada, cliche advice,

right? Like, I was trying to come up with an actual system that I thought would really work well.

And so I literally sat down and I brainstormed on my office whiteboard.

Everything I could think of that if you did it, you would be the best medical student I ever had. That was like the driving

question. How to teach and create the perfect med student? How would I train you myself if I knew

that you were all going to come rotate at my hospital with me in a few months? The perfect

med student, which for you means a great slow, right? And even more

than that, a really good med student, they get more than just like a good flow. They get really

good comments on their slow. And that's especially important when you're interviewing.

So to understand my strategy and my mindset, you have to understand the emergency department

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