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This title is awesome, it’s like “how I would study software if I could start over” cuz I see that trend soo much but this is more about studying rather than what you study
One think that changed my grade from 60% to 80-85% was to understand physiology and anatomy in a relevant way. I didn’t learn random details again but what I did was instead of memorizing symptoms and clinical features. I simply learned the reason why. For example nephrotic syndrome. I can just memorize proteinurea, pitting edema coagulopathy and lipidemia. I had learned why protein is going away, and because you lose protein you have less albumin in your blood and that makes your oncotic pressure low and you body needs to fix it somehow. You have two ways, 1- you can increase the products that take part in oncotic pressure 2- you can decrease the amount of water in your blood. For 1, your liver tried to produce more albumin but you don’t have any, so it makes lipids to compensate. 2nd you lose the water, the water outside of your veins cause edema. The thing that keepsmthe water from mobilizing in your body is albumin, you don’t have any so water mobilises and that’s why when you press on it you cause pitting. Antithrombin 3 is a protein you need so that you dont clot. You lose that also and now you have coagulopathy. This way you can quickly work your way around everything and even give educated guesses on things you don’t actually know so that your chances of getting the questions right even if it is something you are not familiar with. This way you can also create discussions, give well-thought answers to your teachers and ask meaningful questions in classroom and on rotations which will make a place in you professor’s head even though you are not correct everytime since you are showing that you have general understanding of the systems, you analyze and compare things and you can think critically.
Also simplifying things is a must. When you put random details on a topic you don’t have general understanding for you forget it. But when you learn it in a birds eye view and than get into spesifics you will see where those details are coming from and it will make it stick to your brain and you will be able to remember it in a real life scenario
@@internetstranger3686 I used lecturio. There is a prof. called carlo raj that teaches you pathophisiology of everything. I found his videos super easy to understand and really logical. But just find what works for your own mind and what you can understand.
Generalizing the tips for any subject: 1. Simplify, simplify, simplify! Simplify & make the material intuitive to you--less is more. How will I use this info IRL? Fake it till you make it. 2. Pick your losses. Concentrate on what’s most important to you & why (fit other areas in if time allows). 3. Projects - Center studying on what you’re likely to use during the week for your current project. This allows you to apply/build on the experience for your project from what you just studied.
I would also rather say "learn things in a practical way, not just a theoretical way. Meaning, learn them how you will have to retrieve and use the information, not just for pure memorization"
I graduated medical school when in my country we only started having home PCs, and the internet was very slow (I'm not that old :D it just took time for technology to reach it). I obviously had no clue about a better way of learning, and studied exactly as you described - for exams, trying to cram as much as possible, forgot everything the day after. I managed to work in a small hospital, where one needs quite restricted amount of knowledge. 5 years later I moved to another country, and I was shocked, I was supposed to know much much much more, the students and interns that worked in our department knew a lot more than myself, asked me so many Qs, I was burned out trying to catch up, I think mostly because I still used the same methods, saw no connections, and needed to restudy material all the time. Currently I'm on a maternity leave, I've watched all of your videos, changed my learning style and it just makes so much more sense. I'm so grateful that you share this knowledge for free. I hope you understand how many lives have you changed. Thank you.
In summary: 1. Forest, then trees. Common things are common. Look for horses, not zebras. So focus first on learning the simple, basic, foundational, fundamental things, then get the details. For example, read a book like Clinical Pathophysiology Made Ridiculously Simple, then Pathoma or even Robbins Pathology. 2. How is it clinically relevant? Figure out how this knowledge or information is going to be necessary for real living people. For patient care. Don't think in terms of a long list of abstract diseases, per se, but think in terms of signs and symptoms. A patient will not present with a STEMI or aortic dissection, but rather chest pain that feels like an elephant sitting on them, etc. In other words, read a book like From Symptom to Diagnosis, Frameworks in Internal Medicine, or the Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery, because these books will teach you how to think in schemas or frameworks or whatever you want to call it.
I am a surgeon of 25 years experience and reasonably famous in my field in my region. I am in a level of creating new technique to suit patients, and able to combined patient perception of disease/ past experience to formulate a plan. Sometimes I am also able to undermine underlying motivation and demotivation. Takes lots of practice. The problem in medical school is u need to perform within certain period. Medicine is lifelong learning. Be humble. Patients is always our teacher. Same disease manifest differently in different patients. Keep a keen observation and keep an open mind. I dare not teach medical students because my management is not that text book but it works. Also one more tips: ur grade in medical school is not that important. Those of us who do well in future career are actually medical students with mediocre grades
@@janeeyre1455 Wahhhh i admire to be like u someday!! I'm currently in vet school and sometimes it's just kind of discouraging when i don't do well in class. Not really competitive with others but when i do below average of the class, it makes me really sad :
@@janeeyre1455 thank you for sharing your experience sir, I’m not trying To be rude. But, being a decent student myself in med school, you saying that students who did well in med school didn’t actually turn out to be good doctors scares me, what makes you think so? Is it experience? Considering I know the theory and perform the practicals better than most my peers, what would I lack. I’d love a response whenever you’re free.
@@ryuk2479 I think success is hard to define. I have a friend who dislikes human contact despite graduate top. She chose microbiology . ,even got phd. But of course financially she is a bit disadvantaged. Is she a failure? Of course not. Good to seem think u are better than ur peers. Medi ine is not a race,but a self discovery in addition to to use ur skills to help others
Not many folks even in med school have the insight to come to these conclusions. I’ve had a similar experience to what you describe. It is extremely interesting to me that I could have information encoded in my brain in one direction (x disease causes chest pain, y disease causes chest pain and so on) but when asked in the reverse direction (what are the causes of chest pain?) the neural pathways to answer that question literally don’t exist. Absolutely fascinating but drives me absolutely crazy. Not only do we have to learn things in a way that we can remember them, we also have to worry about learning them in a way that they will come to mind when the situation arises in real life, which seems crazy but these are definitely 2 separate objectives. I think we learn the preclinical knowledge in a way (disease oriented knowledge) that makes it impossible to retrieve it and effectively use it with an undifferentiated patient in front of you. The first 1.5 years in my opinion should be spent learning like this (bc I think you have to in order to gain effective knowledge) then 6 months or something should be spent drilling down on how to approach patients clinically which requires your knowledge to work in the reverse direction. Then you can go on to clinical rotations and build on that with patients
''a unique experience that i dont wanna do again'' but you did!! and now it lead you to your position now, an obstacle that opened other doors for you while closed this one ❤❤
By YouSum Live 00:00:50 Overengineer your learning approach for exams. 00:02:29 Be discerning about the level of detail you study. 00:04:45 Utilize your clinical attachment days effectively. 00:06:14 Study topics from a clinical reasoning perspective first. 00:08:58 Simplify complex topics to aid understanding. 00:11:20 Deliberately seek simpler ways to understand overwhelming information. 00:15:34 Study Anatomy with a practical, operational mindset. 00:17:37 Make things simpler and more intuitive to understand complex topics. 00:17:59 Break down overwhelming information into simpler parts before diving into details. 00:18:22 Consider the clinical application of knowledge before learning new concepts. 00:19:00 Recognize the difference between being a medical student and a doctor in training. 00:19:46 Selectively prioritize what to learn and focus on clinically relevant information. 00:20:17 Optimize clinical placements by aligning your study with anticipated experiences. 00:22:00 Engage actively during clinical placements to maximize learning opportunities. By YouSum Live
Thanks alot Doc! Vet student here! Been waiting for a video like this; and honestly, i've watched your other videos, but I was'nt sure how to apply those ideas in the context of my profession. However, this video cleared up lot of my doubts, and I have a general idea to finally study in a way that gives me long term learning in a much effective way. Thanks again, loved the vid!!!
Thank you Dr.Sung I've graduated from med school more than a year ago and I couldn't agree more on what you said.. I also think that one should be aware when things are going wrong early on and act actively to that because the more time goes on the more you'll be overwhelmed and it's really easy to fall into depression especially in medschool..but as always.. Never Give Up!
This video is literally an answered prayer! The way you broke it down was absolutely genius, and now I feel that much more empowered to succeed through my preclinical years.
A lot of humility in this video. ❤ Sounds like the idea is to work backward from hands-on experience to know what you need to focus on. But you still need some base level of knowledge to understand the hands-on experience. How do you recommend studying for necessary information you need to have before you can participate in a hands-on setting?
M1. Only learned for exam M2. Learn to much on detail M3. Waste clinical year /There is something you can t get with just studying How to use anatomy - i put my self in a position where what if i am a first person that can ever do this operation - Cause they have consequences, they have relevant -make thing more simplier and intuitive /How am i actually gonna use this knowladge -pick your losses - use clinical placement more effectively
“using what you learn and applying it to a real life situation” is indeed meaningful and useful. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us Dr. Sung.
Watching this while studying for my final year medical school final exams. It may be too late for me to apply what I learnt in this video, but I’ve internalized it and can now teach it to juniors below me. Great video Justin!
This came at a great time! Started my first placement last week and I definetely related a lot with your experiences. Ive been focusing all my outside studying for my boards but maybe if i center it around my placement ill end up learning most of what I need both to do well in hospitals and my exams
I'm currently preparing for NEET - UG and saw this video as I was struggling to study. I'm really glad that I found this video! Thank you so much for sharing your experiences :D❤ 2:35 I had the same mindset to learn everything and whenever I failed to do so I would procrastinate and that would lead me to just memorize for my exams (short term memory) as I procrastinated the whole time just because I thought it was hard. 18:59 This line hits hard. :")
literally every med student and med school needs to watch this video!!! i completely relate and thank you sooo much for making this video! transition from 2nd to 3rd year was hard for me. i felt lost and also had a hard time switching the way to think.
I'm not a medical student but a nursing student and its nice to see that most of these study tips still apply. Also interesting to see that medical students could struggle with some of the same aspects of clinical application as we experience as nurses.
Knowledge about is different from knowledge of. Representative practice! I think practice design should be focused on far more by educators and learners.
Very informative. I have the same problem, when I'm at my clinical rotations I just freeze at questions and cannot think my way through the symptoms. I will definitely be implementing what I've learned here today. Thank you for this video
IDK if this helps anyone but One thing that helped me when I would draw a literal blank in a consult, is to answer the question with another question which is usually the holy triad (medications? allergies? Medical conditions?). That usually gave me enough foundation to get a thought process going. You need to see the forest first before examining each tree
Thank you 😊!!! I’m currently in my last year in high school and ofc I’m going to med school. I think this will be able to me out a lot, thank you very much 🙏🏾
Currently a nursing student, but I want to go to medical school later in life(prioritizing family right now), and his mention of learning what symptoms point to what diseases(rather than learning the symptoms of every disease) is kind of how we learn. They don’t teach us every disease, but they teach us how certain symptoms present and why the body may react that way. Watching this video made me feel confident that my nursing knowledge(and study habits) will transfer to medical school.
Not even a medical student but I love watching your videos. I cannot wait to take your course! I’m a professional but still want to sign up for your academic course.
Honestly, this is one of the most useful advices I’ve ever been given to. Currently, I’m a first year Medstudent who are struggling in finding the most efficient learning method and I make those abovementioned mistakes too 😅😅. Hope this channel will develop stronger to help Medstudents like me reform their learning method
Thank you so much for this. My heart sank because I just took my finals and BOMBED them. I was lucky enough that I did very well on my other tests/assignments to pass the class, but I realized this as well towards the end of the semester that I needed to make it simpler and there is no way in heck a person can memorize all the powerpoints in a given semester + going forward everything builds on top of each other. I realized it's better to get a solid fundamental understanding first, and as you said put the smaller details in later so it makes sense. I only have 2 years left of "school," and I feel so lost.
wow, i am really so grateful - these tips are profound and so many daily standard complications are adressed - i feel like finally i got a key to my study problems... i would definitely love to hear more content about what to do in the lectures, even more how to create the different times in semester (mostly beginning without exams, later one exam after another, also lots of lessons, that are mandatory and only seem to take time) . And also how to combine university with private life and how to just get everything organized well
Summary Mistakes in studying in medical school: 1. Stop learning for exams only. It is okay to do this pre-clinical years, but when you get to the clinical years you have to Practice in a way suitable for practical clinical application. Meaning using knowledge in a way Suitable for real life situations. Also, this strategy is not reliable because it basically stores information in short-term memory. This is a strategy that does not help in creating foundational knowledge that you can use later on. 2. Learning too much detail. learning too much information can distort your memory and make you forget the big picture. How to solve this? by making information easier to understand and to memorise. Take the time to deliberately make information simpler and more intuitive. You, of course, should always learn the details. But you need to always make the information easier afterwards. Tip! Understand it from a clinical point of view first, then go back to the details. Tip! You can't learn every single thing you study. You can learn most of it, but not all. So, pick your losses. Make a decision for what is important to learn and why. (the clinical perspective before mentioned) 3. Not taking advantage of clinical attachments. This point talks about clinical years. There is a lot of learning that could happen during clinical placements. There are somethings that you simply can not learn by only studying. You need patients to give your learning context and relevance.
This video is one of a kind, *make things simpler and make learning intuitive* which actually holds so true, excelling in any field, moving further brings plethora of complex knowledge and our learning gets dissociated, As a person studying commerce, this video has helped me equally because the concepts are much more bulky now and in our schools and colleges we all at some point focus on exam oriented learning without seeing things from a practical approach, which becomes a blunder in long run and also makes learning harder. Thank you for reminding me that again coach.
What a great video! I think the problem with previous ways of teaching is that they're very subject-oriented. Even though you're learning these subjects as stepping stones for your ultimate goal (to become a doctor), you are taught like you would become a biochemist or anatomist. Don't even start about Citric Acid Cycles, steps of DNA transcription and translation which you could easily look up on the internet. Now that I'm re-learning those again for PG exams, I can clearly see how I wasted my undergrad years trying to memorize these with stupid mnemonics! LOL You don't even need that much info to become a good doctor. I hope med students learn from this video, but I was a med student once, and I didn't learn though I saw similar advices.
Great information and tips. Thanks a lot for this. I need to change my study method now. I'm still using old school analysis and memorization, which are good academically but hard to translate into a clinical practical application.
your approach to making medical education practical and applicable is invaluable! Focusing on real-life clinical applications and simplifying complex topics not only enhances understanding but also ensures that knowledge is retained and usable when it matters most. 📚
Thankyou so much I'm currently in 3rd year of my medical school and today i was feeling so sad and overwhelmed by the amount of subjects that i have to study and why can't i remember things but this video really gave me some clarity on what to do..
Thank you so much Dr. Justin! I did learn a lot from you! ❤🎉 I am manifesting to finish my med degree in 2028 with flying colors and also top my board exam❤
Just me yesterday during my exams. So much knowledge about how a particular topic but when a diagnosis came that was not in accordance with what I stored in my brain I couldn’t relate. It gets better.❤
That means … for anatomy.. Start with basics (divisions of abdomen ) then a clinical case (eg. stomach pain) and then relating normal gross and histology of stomach, peritoneum etc .. Am I thinking in the right direction ??
Interesting fixing electronics - base on customer input/information 11:14 ("it does not work") look very similar to medical examination- at least though process is almost the same
Hey Justin thank you for this video Im only 5 minutes in and everything you are saying is me right now I just entered my 2nd year and I did well in the beginning of first year but now im starting to to struggle academically and I think the things you are saying is very representative of what Im currently doing
I'm sure it took a lot of courage to make this video🥲 This is literally the story of my current existence 😭I'm currently doing my clinicals and everything you did, is exactly what I'm doing. Please make more videos like this😭. I don't have fail first to get it right. Thank you so much, Doc 😂🎉
Just also started to realize these advices when I'm like halfway thru my course now. And it kinda hurts to know this but still have to memorize lots of not that significant details bcoz it would be the one getting ask on exams ;(. Sometimes i would be really happy bcoz i feel like I understand the concept, but since i didnt really memorize the tiniest details, I still wouldn't do that well on the exam hays. But still it's really much more important to understand the idea of what ure learning coz its also the one u need to understand other subjs and when u need to apply them. I guess medschool is just like that, I hope we all learn a lot so we can treat and help others in the future!!
I would beg to differ. In medical school, there are case presentation wherein differentials are part of the presentation given all the symptoms of the patient presented. This is already part of the learning process in medicine.
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"you are not a medical student, you are a doctor in training."
This title is awesome, it’s like “how I would study software if I could start over” cuz I see that trend soo much but this is more about studying rather than what you study
Higher order it is :)
One think that changed my grade from 60% to 80-85% was to understand physiology and anatomy in a relevant way. I didn’t learn random details again but what I did was instead of memorizing symptoms and clinical features. I simply learned the reason why. For example nephrotic syndrome. I can just memorize proteinurea, pitting edema coagulopathy and lipidemia. I had learned why protein is going away, and because you lose protein you have less albumin in your blood and that makes your oncotic pressure low and you body needs to fix it somehow. You have two ways, 1- you can increase the products that take part in oncotic pressure 2- you can decrease the amount of water in your blood. For 1, your liver tried to produce more albumin but you don’t have any, so it makes lipids to compensate. 2nd you lose the water, the water outside of your veins cause edema. The thing that keepsmthe water from mobilizing in your body is albumin, you don’t have any so water mobilises and that’s why when you press on it you cause pitting. Antithrombin 3 is a protein you need so that you dont clot. You lose that also and now you have coagulopathy. This way you can quickly work your way around everything and even give educated guesses on things you don’t actually know so that your chances of getting the questions right even if it is something you are not familiar with. This way you can also create discussions, give well-thought answers to your teachers and ask meaningful questions in classroom and on rotations which will make a place in you professor’s head even though you are not correct everytime since you are showing that you have general understanding of the systems, you analyze and compare things and you can think critically.
Also simplifying things is a must. When you put random details on a topic you don’t have general understanding for you forget it. But when you learn it in a birds eye view and than get into spesifics you will see where those details are coming from and it will make it stick to your brain and you will be able to remember it in a real life scenario
That's great, where do you get the info about the why if the classes don't provide it? Books? UA-cam? What would you recommend? I'n interested
Wow that’s amazing. Thank you so much for sharing!
Hey I wanna learn from u 🥺
@@internetstranger3686 I used lecturio. There is a prof. called carlo raj that teaches you pathophisiology of everything. I found his videos super easy to understand and really logical. But just find what works for your own mind and what you can understand.
Generalizing the tips for any subject:
1. Simplify, simplify, simplify! Simplify & make the material intuitive to you--less is more. How will I use this info IRL? Fake it till you make it.
2. Pick your losses. Concentrate on what’s most important to you & why (fit other areas in if time allows).
3. Projects - Center studying on what you’re likely to use during the week for your current project. This allows you to apply/build on the experience for your project from what you just studied.
I would also rather say "learn things in a practical way, not just a theoretical way. Meaning, learn them how you will have to retrieve and use the information, not just for pure memorization"
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What is the IRL
@@هُدىحسين-س7ذ IRL = in real life
@@هُدىحسين-س7ذ in real life short form
I graduated medical school when in my country we only started having home PCs, and the internet was very slow (I'm not that old :D it just took time for technology to reach it). I obviously had no clue about a better way of learning, and studied exactly as you described - for exams, trying to cram as much as possible, forgot everything the day after. I managed to work in a small hospital, where one needs quite restricted amount of knowledge. 5 years later I moved to another country, and I was shocked, I was supposed to know much much much more, the students and interns that worked in our department knew a lot more than myself, asked me so many Qs, I was burned out trying to catch up, I think mostly because I still used the same methods, saw no connections, and needed to restudy material all the time. Currently I'm on a maternity leave, I've watched all of your videos, changed my learning style and it just makes so much more sense. I'm so grateful that you share this knowledge for free. I hope you understand how many lives have you changed. Thank you.
Been waiting for this type of content.
As a medical student who started late in medschool (28 y/o) due to problem in studying; thank you Justin!
I'm gonna be 28 when I start medschool too! :)
Cheer dude
I started medschool at 33 years old. Im still coming to get you son
@@mikkosilakka lol im starting now and I'm 35
@@Armanijesus Nice, good luck my bro!
I'm a second year Uni student age 21. I want to drop out and re-do my Grade 12 so I can do Medicine at 23.
In summary:
1. Forest, then trees. Common things are common. Look for horses, not zebras. So focus first on learning the simple, basic, foundational, fundamental things, then get the details. For example, read a book like Clinical Pathophysiology Made Ridiculously Simple, then Pathoma or even Robbins Pathology.
2. How is it clinically relevant? Figure out how this knowledge or information is going to be necessary for real living people. For patient care. Don't think in terms of a long list of abstract diseases, per se, but think in terms of signs and symptoms. A patient will not present with a STEMI or aortic dissection, but rather chest pain that feels like an elephant sitting on them, etc. In other words, read a book like From Symptom to Diagnosis, Frameworks in Internal Medicine, or the Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery, because these books will teach you how to think in schemas or frameworks or whatever you want to call it.
Thank you so much for your comment, it really breaks everything down 👍🏾
I am a surgeon of 25 years experience and reasonably famous in my field in my region. I am in a level of creating new technique to suit patients, and able to combined patient perception of disease/ past experience to formulate a plan. Sometimes I am also able to undermine underlying motivation and demotivation. Takes lots of practice. The problem in medical school is u need to perform within certain period. Medicine is lifelong learning. Be humble. Patients is always our teacher. Same disease manifest differently in different patients. Keep a keen observation and keep an open mind. I dare not teach medical students because my management is not that text book but it works. Also one more tips: ur grade in medical school is not that important. Those of us who do well in future career are actually medical students with mediocre grades
@@janeeyre1455 Wahhhh i admire to be like u someday!! I'm currently in vet school and sometimes it's just kind of discouraging when i don't do well in class. Not really competitive with others but when i do below average of the class, it makes me really sad :
@@imher6039 don’t be discouraged. Have a broad concept in understanding principles in medicine. Always learning and be reflective .
@@janeeyre1455 You just put so much hope in me. Thank you.
@@janeeyre1455 thank you for sharing your experience sir, I’m not trying To be rude. But, being a decent student myself in med school, you saying that students who did well in med school didn’t actually turn out to be good doctors scares me, what makes you think so? Is it experience? Considering I know the theory and perform the practicals better than most my peers, what would I lack. I’d love a response whenever you’re free.
@@ryuk2479 I think success is hard to define. I have a friend who dislikes human contact despite graduate top. She chose microbiology . ,even got phd. But of course financially she is a bit disadvantaged. Is she a failure? Of course not. Good to seem think u are better than ur peers. Medi ine is not a race,but a self discovery in addition to to use ur skills to help others
Not many folks even in med school have the insight to come to these conclusions. I’ve had a similar experience to what you describe. It is extremely interesting to me that I could have information encoded in my brain in one direction (x disease causes chest pain, y disease causes chest pain and so on) but when asked in the reverse direction (what are the causes of chest pain?) the neural pathways to answer that question literally don’t exist. Absolutely fascinating but drives me absolutely crazy. Not only do we have to learn things in a way that we can remember them, we also have to worry about learning them in a way that they will come to mind when the situation arises in real life, which seems crazy but these are definitely 2 separate objectives. I think we learn the preclinical knowledge in a way (disease oriented knowledge) that makes it impossible to retrieve it and effectively use it with an undifferentiated patient in front of you. The first 1.5 years in my opinion should be spent learning like this (bc I think you have to in order to gain effective knowledge) then 6 months or something should be spent drilling down on how to approach patients clinically which requires your knowledge to work in the reverse direction. Then you can go on to clinical rotations and build on that with patients
''a unique experience that i dont wanna do again'' but you did!! and now it lead you to your position now, an obstacle that opened other doors for you while closed this one ❤❤
By YouSum Live
00:00:50 Overengineer your learning approach for exams.
00:02:29 Be discerning about the level of detail you study.
00:04:45 Utilize your clinical attachment days effectively.
00:06:14 Study topics from a clinical reasoning perspective first.
00:08:58 Simplify complex topics to aid understanding.
00:11:20 Deliberately seek simpler ways to understand overwhelming information.
00:15:34 Study Anatomy with a practical, operational mindset.
00:17:37 Make things simpler and more intuitive to understand complex topics.
00:17:59 Break down overwhelming information into simpler parts before diving into details.
00:18:22 Consider the clinical application of knowledge before learning new concepts.
00:19:00 Recognize the difference between being a medical student and a doctor in training.
00:19:46 Selectively prioritize what to learn and focus on clinically relevant information.
00:20:17 Optimize clinical placements by aligning your study with anticipated experiences.
00:22:00 Engage actively during clinical placements to maximize learning opportunities.
By YouSum Live
As a medical student i see this as a big win
Hello from Pakistan Justin! Your tips have been helping A TON, please never stop making content
Thanks alot Doc! Vet student here! Been waiting for a video like this; and honestly, i've watched your other videos, but I was'nt sure how to apply those ideas in the context of my profession. However, this video cleared up lot of my doubts, and I have a general idea to finally study in a way that gives me long term learning in a much effective way. Thanks again, loved the vid!!!
As a first year medical student, these tips are gold! Especially for preclinical years! Hats off to you Dr! Amazing tips!
Thank you Dr.Sung
I've graduated from med school more than a year ago and I couldn't agree more on what you said..
I also think that one should be aware when things are going wrong early on and act actively to that because the more time goes on the more you'll be overwhelmed and it's really easy to fall into depression especially in medschool..but as always.. Never Give Up!
First year Radiology Resident here!
And yes I don’t want to go back in medical school😂
Thank you Dr. Justin
were you frequently sleep deprived?
Thanks my Learning Coach,
It’s so inspiring to always hear you talk about how you transitioned from been an MD to follow your passion ❤❤❤
I'm not a med student, but love your video! Another excellent one, thank you!
This video is literally an answered prayer! The way you broke it down was absolutely genius, and now I feel that much more empowered to succeed through my preclinical years.
A lot of humility in this video. ❤
Sounds like the idea is to work backward from hands-on experience to know what you need to focus on. But you still need some base level of knowledge to understand the hands-on experience. How do you recommend studying for necessary information you need to have before you can participate in a hands-on setting?
needed this! good to know that you had the same struggles with medical school too
M1. Only learned for exam
M2. Learn to much on detail
M3. Waste clinical year
/There is something you can t get with just studying
How to use anatomy
- i put my self in a position where what if i am a first person that can ever do this operation
- Cause they have consequences, they have relevant
-make thing more simplier and intuitive
/How am i actually gonna use this knowladge
-pick your losses
- use clinical placement more effectively
“using what you learn and applying it to a real life situation” is indeed meaningful and useful. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us Dr. Sung.
Big Kudos. Justin is a great man. And a great teacher. ❤
Thank you for this video.
Sincerely, a med student who is deeply depressed.
Watching this while studying for my final year medical school final exams. It may be too late for me to apply what I learnt in this video, but I’ve internalized it and can now teach it to juniors below me. Great video Justin!
Find the shortest book on any topic and read the whole thing.
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This came at a great time! Started my first placement last week and I definetely related a lot with your experiences. Ive been focusing all my outside studying for my boards but maybe if i center it around my placement ill end up learning most of what I need both to do well in hospitals and my exams
I'm currently preparing for NEET - UG and saw this video as I was struggling to study. I'm really glad that I found this video! Thank you so much for sharing your experiences :D❤
2:35 I had the same mindset to learn everything and whenever I failed to do so I would procrastinate and that would lead me to just memorize for my exams (short term memory) as I procrastinated the whole time just because I thought it was hard.
18:59 This line hits hard. :")
literally every med student and med school needs to watch this video!!! i completely relate and thank you sooo much for making this video! transition from 2nd to 3rd year was hard for me. i felt lost and also had a hard time switching the way to think.
I'm not a medical student but a nursing student and its nice to see that most of these study tips still apply. Also interesting to see that medical students could struggle with some of the same aspects of clinical application as we experience as nurses.
Knowledge about is different from knowledge of. Representative practice!
I think practice design should be focused on far more by educators and learners.
Very informative. I have the same problem, when I'm at my clinical rotations I just freeze at questions and cannot think my way through the symptoms. I will definitely be implementing what I've learned here today. Thank you for this video
Definitely did not expect this amount of clarity from one video. Thanks a ton. ❤❤
IDK if this helps anyone but One thing that helped me when I would draw a literal blank in a consult, is to answer the question with another question which is usually the holy triad (medications? allergies? Medical conditions?). That usually gave me enough foundation to get a thought process going. You need to see the forest first before examining each tree
Thank you 😊!!! I’m currently in my last year in high school and ofc I’m going to med school. I think this will be able to me out a lot, thank you very much 🙏🏾
Me too
You should make a medical school playlist!!!
Incredible! Your content has completely changed the way I approach topics in medical school. Amazing work, thank you very much!
Currently a nursing student, but I want to go to medical school later in life(prioritizing family right now), and his mention of learning what symptoms point to what diseases(rather than learning the symptoms of every disease) is kind of how we learn. They don’t teach us every disease, but they teach us how certain symptoms present and why the body may react that way.
Watching this video made me feel confident that my nursing knowledge(and study habits) will transfer to medical school.
Not even a medical student but I love watching your videos. I cannot wait to take your course! I’m a professional but still want to sign up for your academic course.
Honestly, this is one of the most useful advices I’ve ever been given to. Currently, I’m a first year Medstudent who are struggling in finding the most efficient learning method and I make those abovementioned mistakes too 😅😅. Hope this channel will develop stronger to help Medstudents like me reform their learning method
Thank you so much for this. My heart sank because I just took my finals and BOMBED them. I was lucky enough that I did very well on my other tests/assignments to pass the class, but I realized this as well towards the end of the semester that I needed to make it simpler and there is no way in heck a person can memorize all the powerpoints in a given semester + going forward everything builds on top of each other. I realized it's better to get a solid fundamental understanding first, and as you said put the smaller details in later so it makes sense. I only have 2 years left of "school," and I feel so lost.
Thank you for the video!
this is one of the most valuable videos i have seen as an incoming medical student. i cannot thank you enough!
wow, i am really so grateful - these tips are profound and so many daily standard complications are adressed - i feel like finally i got a key to my study problems... i would definitely love to hear more content about what to do in the lectures, even more how to create the different times in semester (mostly beginning without exams, later one exam after another, also lots of lessons, that are mandatory and only seem to take time) . And also how to combine university with private life and how to just get everything organized well
Thank you, really inspiring
Only 3 months left in my physician degree , wish me luck and i wish this was made 3 years ago 😂
Summary
Mistakes in studying in medical school:
1. Stop learning for exams only.
It is okay to do this pre-clinical years, but
when you get to the clinical years you have to
Practice in a way suitable for practical clinical
application. Meaning using knowledge in a way
Suitable for real life situations.
Also, this strategy is not reliable because it
basically stores information in short-term
memory. This is a strategy that does not help
in creating foundational knowledge that you
can use later on.
2. Learning too much detail.
learning too much information can distort your
memory and make you forget the big picture.
How to solve this? by making information easier to
understand and to memorise. Take the time to
deliberately make information simpler and more intuitive.
You, of course, should always learn the details. But you need
to always make the information easier afterwards.
Tip! Understand it from a clinical point of view first, then go
back to the details.
Tip! You can't learn every single thing you study. You
can learn most of it, but not all. So, pick your losses. Make
a decision for what is important to learn and why. (the
clinical perspective before mentioned)
3. Not taking advantage of clinical attachments.
This point talks about clinical years. There is a lot
of learning that could happen during clinical
placements. There are somethings that you simply can
not learn by only studying. You need patients to give
your learning context and relevance.
Gracias por el contenido. Aprender es realmente maravilloso
This video is one of a kind, *make things simpler and make learning intuitive* which actually holds so true, excelling in any field, moving further brings plethora of complex knowledge and our learning gets dissociated, As a person studying commerce, this video has helped me equally because the concepts are much more bulky now and in our schools and colleges we all at some point focus on exam oriented learning without seeing things from a practical approach, which becomes a blunder in long run and also makes learning harder. Thank you for reminding me that again coach.
Studying for usmle step 2. Thank you so much for your content!
What a great video! I think the problem with previous ways of teaching is that they're very subject-oriented. Even though you're learning these subjects as stepping stones for your ultimate goal (to become a doctor), you are taught like you would become a biochemist or anatomist. Don't even start about Citric Acid Cycles, steps of DNA transcription and translation which you could easily look up on the internet. Now that I'm re-learning those again for PG exams, I can clearly see how I wasted my undergrad years trying to memorize these with stupid mnemonics! LOL You don't even need that much info to become a good doctor. I hope med students learn from this video, but I was a med student once, and I didn't learn though I saw similar advices.
This is such a refreshing take on learning medicine when my classmates and I have just been blindly cramming XD Thanks Dr Sung!
i'm loving the quality of your thumbnails recently! :)
Taking up law in Ph. Applying your methods in law school. Continue to share your knowledge doc.
This is gold, thank you ✌🏽
Awesome video! I'm so grateful for your advices.
Great information and tips. Thanks a lot for this. I need to change my study method now. I'm still using old school analysis and memorization, which are good academically but hard to translate into a clinical practical application.
Wow you deserve to have so many followers!
starting med school next month, thanks a ton for the video
how is it
your approach to making medical education practical and applicable is invaluable! Focusing on real-life clinical applications and simplifying complex topics not only enhances understanding but also ensures that knowledge is retained and usable when it matters most. 📚
Thankyou so much I'm currently in 3rd year of my medical school and today i was feeling so sad and overwhelmed by the amount of subjects that i have to study and why can't i remember things but this video really gave me some clarity on what to do..
Thank you very much for this amazing video!
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Great experience sharing and reflections❤
Tips for high school students? Overwhelmed by physics, chem and ext maths rn.
REEEEELLLLL💀💀
Thank you so much Dr. Justin! I did learn a lot from you! ❤🎉 I am manifesting to finish my med degree in 2028 with flying colors and also top my board exam❤
Thanks a lot dr Justin.... Hope you make more videos related to how to learn the clinical subjects in an effective way...❤
When I learned about exposure therapy, I processed it well - because I needed it to help me solve a problem - my struggle with anxiety.
- Cole
Pre-Med here loved it
Being a biochemistry student this is quite useful. 😊
Just me yesterday during my exams. So much knowledge about how a particular topic but when a diagnosis came that was not in accordance with what I stored in my brain I couldn’t relate. It gets better.❤
That means … for anatomy.. Start with basics (divisions of abdomen ) then a clinical case (eg. stomach pain) and then relating normal gross and histology of stomach, peritoneum etc .. Am I thinking in the right direction ??
Interesting fixing electronics - base on customer input/information 11:14 ("it does not work") look very similar to medical examination- at least though process is almost the same
Hey Justin thank you for this video Im only 5 minutes in and everything you are saying is me right now I just entered my 2nd year and I did well in the beginning of first year but now im starting to to struggle academically and I think the things you are saying is very representative of what Im currently doing
I hope too, solidarity
Thank u so much Justin!
Was waiting for a video like this
I'm in nursing school. this is helpful
I'm sure it took a lot of courage to make this video🥲
This is literally the story of my current existence 😭I'm currently doing my clinicals and everything you did, is exactly what I'm doing. Please make more videos like this😭. I don't have fail first to get it right. Thank you so much, Doc 😂🎉
Just also started to realize these advices when I'm like halfway thru my course now. And it kinda hurts to know this but still have to memorize lots of not that significant details bcoz it would be the one getting ask on exams ;(. Sometimes i would be really happy bcoz i feel like I understand the concept, but since i didnt really memorize the tiniest details, I still wouldn't do that well on the exam hays. But still it's really much more important to understand the idea of what ure learning coz its also the one u need to understand other subjs and when u need to apply them. I guess medschool is just like that, I hope we all learn a lot so we can treat and help others in the future!!
From Iraq thanks Dr.justin
I would beg to differ. In medical school, there are case presentation wherein differentials are part of the presentation given all the symptoms of the patient presented. This is already part of the learning process in medicine.
Thankyou sir! Super helpful❤️
First two were my biggest mistakes while studying for my engineering degree
Thanks Doctor sung appreciated this video so much ❤
Thank you very much sir !!!
Thank you so much justin! Support and love from Pakistan ❤
Thank you for this video sir.
This is great! Thanks
Mistake 1 wasn't a mistake, it was the exam system failing students by incentivizing the wrong things
This is brilliant!
This was really helpful
Incredible advices!
lucky me im just now starting med this seems useful
Thank you so much Dr Sung
Love uuu justin❤❤❤
This video is precious