Behind the Knife, the Surgery Podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day. Hey behind the night, listeners.

The weather's getting warmer, the days are getting longer, and that can only mean one thing.

It's time for a new intern's to hit to hospital.

Don't worry, though.

We've got your back.

I'm Shanass Hussein.

And I'm Nina Clark, and this series will give you some practical tips and tricks for dominating your intern year.

Today, we're focusing on your learning. Intern year feels a lot like drinking from a fire hose.

While you're shuffling through your list and the normal daily to-dos that surgical patients require,

you're also somehow expected to know about those patients' disease processes and study for that abside exam that's

looming in January. Today, we're going to talk through some specific resources and tips for

staying on top of it all. Shana's how did you structure your studying as an intern?

I went through so many different tribes to figure out what worked best for me, so if that's the case

for you, don't feel like you're

doing something wrong. That's completely normal. I originally started with reading a textbook

that was very dense and I would try and assign myself to read like a chapter over the weekend

because I just figured I didn't have enough time during a week. And honestly, when you're

learning to first kind of manage the work life balance while working 12 to 13 hour days, I think that's okay to maybe not study right off to bat when you get home during the first couple of weeks.

But I would say that that strategy was not a success for me.

Once I got a better handle of working those

full days and maybe not passing out immediately when I get home, I found a way to read a couple of

pages a day. I had a senior tell me that if they read about eight to 10 pages a day, over the course

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