Are you studying harder than you need to?...
Medicine is tough – with so many exams and endless content, it’s difficult to find down-time, let alone extra time to socialise or build your CV with research and society work. No wonder burnout is so common in medical students.
Fortunately, it IS possible to study medicine smarter not harder.
I was able to unlock more time by studying smarter – its what helped me to consistently rank top of the year for 6 years at university, whilst finding plenty of time to get involved in research, building and scaling a national organisation and starting a successful startup; more importantly though, all while protecting myself from burnout and getting as much down-time as I wanted.
Unlocking more time will help you to…
✅ Enjoy more of uni life
✅ Build your CV through research & society work
✅ Start a side hustle
✅ Have more time for a part-time job
✅ Create more freedom
HOW to study is just as important as WHAT to study...
Med school pressures…
Unfortunately, academics matter…
Even though high grades don’t correlate to being a better doctor, in its current form, it does relate to having more choice of where you’ll be when you graduate as a doctor. In the UK, more emphasis is being placed on how well you perform, with high decile rankings contributing to FPAS more than it has ever before.
Building your CV…
National selection and post-graduate training favours though who have found the time to get stuck into extracurricular work – whether that be research, teaching, leadership and management or society work. More free time = more CV building opportunity (if thats important to you).
Creating med school memories…
Studying in such a way that creates more free time allows you to get stuck into more of medical school life. Your 4-6+ years of medical school will go by quick, but the memories will stay with you forever.
Resisting burnout…
With all these pressures, its’ no wonder that med students are high risk for burnout. Discovering how you study best and unlocking more time can help give you the freedom to invest time in whatever matters most to you – giving you that all important buffer against burnout.
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