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Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

The USMLE: How To Rock It

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

If you are a medical student or someone studying for a big exam, this episode is for you. We will first discuss the mental roadblocks that prevent students from performing at their top potential for exams. We also break down and outline some effective study strategies, and provide a sample day-by-day study plan for any 2nd year medical student preparing for the USMLE Step 1 exam. Finally, we have also created a 3-step challenge all students can follow.

By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.75 Psychiatry CME Credits.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast.

0:12.2

I'm here to talk about getting rid of burnout, increasing job satisfaction, and feeling

0:16.6

like an expert in what you do.

0:18.6

One thing that created a lot of burnout and angst for me was trying to get continued medical

0:22.0

education right at the last minute.

0:24.2

So why not join the CME membership and do CME while listening to this podcast?

0:28.6

Go to Psychiatrypodcast.com, sign up, sign in, take the test, and the certification

0:32.5

is emailed to you in seconds.

0:34.4

All right, welcome back to the podcast.

0:36.4

I am joined today with Trace Huang.

0:39.7

He is a fourth year medical student who is doing a project with me.

0:44.5

Today we will be talking about a medical student's road map to success on the US MLE, mindset,

0:52.5

planning, executing, or we're going to be talking about common issues that medical

0:58.5

students have, fear of failure, self-fulfilling prophecy, viewing mistakes as failures, not

1:05.7

being motivated enough, test taking anxiety.

1:09.2

We're going to talk a lot about test taking anxiety, studying with a poor method, thinking

1:15.5

thoughts like I am a horrible student, not giving yourself enough credit, perfectionism.

1:22.2

Everyone seems fine.

1:23.2

Why am I struggling so much?

1:25.0

This is really for two audiences.

1:28.1

Number one, it's for the medical student in the trenches about to take or prepare for

1:33.1

a big test.

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