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Episode 76: Learn from two medicine insiders the best and worst things to do before medical school starts.

Discussion Points:

Stories about what we did after college before med school

-recognize non-traditional students and paths

Did we read anything medical related?

-did we feel prepared

-what did we wish we did

-what was useful or useless

Suggested activities for the summer before med school

-Move

-Spend Time with Your Family

-Stay in Shape and Go to the Gym

AND

-Join a medical mentoring program (Medical Mastermind)

-Do some passive learning (USMLE Audio Reviews)

-create the file folders in your brain

-don’t stress

-don’t read too much

-buy the “basics” for med school – First Aid and USMLE Audio

Episode 75: Did you know that resident unions have been forming in recent years? And with success?

House Officer Unions Successful

Dr. Sklar and colleagues published a report on the first 3 years of progress of a resident union at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. There were definite gains in physician professionalism and unexpected strides toward improved patient care for disadvantaged patients. The resident union actually created a patient fund to help pay for medication, transportation, and other expenses for patients that can not afford it.

Why didn’t they tell me about this when I interviewed there?

Resident Unions Not Unique To America

Cruess and Cruess published in May 2011 that American physicians will follow a long line of physician unions the closer we get to a government-owned and run healthcare system.

What union will you belong to?

The Longest Running Resident Advocacy Group

The Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR) has been advocating for residents for over 50 years. They have over 13,000 residents as members and are the largest group of its kind.

Episode 74: This is where I ask him the big question – you don’t want to miss his answer and the reason he gives for it!

Caribbean Medical Schools

This is the final reveal!

Take a listen and see exactly why people complain about the quality of medical students coming from “some” Caribbean medical schools.

In summary, this two-part series on “Do Caribbean Medical Schools Suck” has addressed the following points:

* The quality of medical training is on par with US Medical Schools

* The standard of care is often not based on American culture

* The content for licensing in the US is often outdated

What do YOU think? Do they suck?

 

The opinions expressed in this interview are solely those of the interviewee and do not necessarily reflect those of Premedical Solutions, LLC or The Medical Mastermind Community and its members.

Episode 73: Yes, you read that right! You won’t believe your ears on this one…

The opinions expressed by this eye witness do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Premedical Solutions, LLC or the Medical Mastermind Community and affiliates.

Our hope is simply to encourage communication and an open dialogue about what is happening in the culture of medical education in the United States in order to best utilize the most valuable resource in medicine – the people.

Enjoy.

Episode 72: Learn about time inventories, respecting deadlines, goal setting, audio notes and more…

Time Management Strategies For Medical School

* Do a time inventory and schedule time inventories every 3 weeks.

* Set goals.

* Set specific tasks with time frames

* Use an organizational system (use David Allen’s 2-minute rule)

* Physical fitness

* Use peak performance times

* Clean the clutter in your office, home, and nooks and crannies

* Set and respect deadlines

* Treat emails and your physical inbox as OTHER people’s agenda, not your own

* Negotiate your open-door policy

* Assign responsibilities during the conversation on the subject, and communicate feedback action steps on-the-spot

* Observe meeting start and end times strictly

* Manage multiple projects so you can mentally change gears and keep busy

* Say “no” to new projects if you can’t commit the time necessary, or if it unrelated to your Definite Major Purpose

* Reward yourself and alternate pleasant and unpleasant tasks

5 Time Management Strategies: A Physician Interview

Interviewer:            On the line with me today is Justin Anderson Anderson from Apollo Audio books. We’re glad to have you back. Welcome, Justin.

 

Justin Anderson:            Hi, Interviewer. Thanks for having me back.

 

TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS: JUSTIN ANDERSON

 

Interviewer:            We’ve enjoyed having you. Today, we’re going talk about time management and we want to pick your brain a little bit. And I sent you earlier this week 15 Time Management Tips and you picked your top five and even added one there.

 

So, what I want to do at this time is let you start off telling us about this top five tips that got you through medical school regarding time management and the very first one being a time inventory. Will you tell us about that?

 

TIME INVENTORY

 

Justin Anderson:            As a medical student, you are from day one totally overwhelmed with what you have to cover. And, you know, they all often make that analogy of, it’s like, time to take a drink of water from a fire hose. You can’t possibly retain everything all the material that you have to get through.

 

And so, whether it’s for your block exams or is it for studying for the USMLE, as the USMLE comes closer. I mean, I would always come and sit down and say, “Exactly, how much material do I need to get through?” And what I learned six months in the medical school is that for me to retain the information, I would have to make it through that information three times.

 

And so I would sit down and calculate out. Well you can do it two ways. You can either A, if you’re a reader, then you sit down and calculate out, how long it takes you to read X number of pages? And you use that to say, “Well, how am I going to get through the material three times?” Or B, if you used audio like I used as a student and I had a, you know, 10 hours of audio that covered pathology. Then, I would say, “Well, I need to go – you get two to three times to take 30 hours.”

 

And the thing is that once you start thinking about how many hours you need to study a day, then once you get a week or two into it, you need to decide, “Am I still on my schedule or am I not on my schedule? Am I getting further and further behind?”

 

And if you’re getting more behind, then what are you going to do? How are you going to adjust your study methods in order to get back on track? If you’re doing just right, then that’s great.

 

And I think that times that I really felt that it was the most important to do,

Episode 71: Listen to this live Mastermind Webinar with rural physician, Dr. David Yale. Learn, first-hand, what it takes to practice rural medicine in the 21st Century.

 

In this episode we are going to meet a rural physician. He is the real deal. He practices rural primary care. And when I say rural, I mean rural. When he goes to the grocery store, he says it’s like rounding on his patients. You got to hear this. What I specially appreciate is he takes us back to that first year of medical school, and what his experience was like. And comes away with a few gems. For those of you that care about community service and communities in the United States and abroad that are medically under served, you definitely want to tune in to this guy’s vibrations because he knows what it takes to serve the underserved. Last thing I want to say, is that this is a physician member of the mastermind community that finds support and strength in community through the regular teleconferences that we have on a weekly and monthly basis for different topics including a new bi-monthly Imcat series. Without any further adieu, I give you Dr. David Yale.

 

MEET DR. DAVID YALE

 

David Yale:                  My name is Dave Yale. I’m a family physician. I’ve been working in a kind of the rural mountains in North Carolina for almost four years now. It’s kind of my hometown. It’s warm so – I sort of, you know, just came back home and practiced medicine here where, you know, I essentially sort of do full practice, you know, full spectrum family medicine. I deliver babies, and take care of kids, and take care of adults and stuff like that. There’s not a lot of specialists a lot here. So we end up doing a lot of the stuff ourselves. And, you know, one of the biggest things that you deal with as a rural doc is, there’s just not a lot of camaraderie, or there’s not a lot of other doctors around. And you’re always looking for, you know, to get around other medical type people and just bounce ideas off of each other and things like that.

 

And you know, that’s really kind of where I got in touch with the Dan, through the email, just trying to get you know, get involved in a group of docs or you know, pre med students or med students things like that just to, you know, kind of open my horizons a little bit, because it kind of gets lonely up here sometimes. So he had mentioned, you know, just kind of being in med talking about, you know, my medical school years, and resident years, and kind of what it’s like being a doc and being a family doc and things like that. And I’m happy to, you know, answer any questions or you know, just kind of talk about the different things that I’ve don through the years and things like that if you’d like me to.

 

Interviewer:                That will be great. Please do.

 

Rural Physician Background

 

David Yale:                  Okay. So I’m sort of a non-traditional student. I grew up – I don’t have – you know, my family is not – wasn’t – none of my family members had really even gone to college or even really graduated from high school. So I was kind of the first person in our family to get into college much less be able to get into medical school. And there are all kinds of you know, problems and things that you run into as sort of a non-traditional student, you know, that go along with that. You’re not used to the kind of the education workload that a lot of these kids, you know, who were second or third generation doctors or medical students are used to. You know, you’re more used to sort of a hands-on approach to things.

 

And that was a big – that a huge – that was a huge stumbling block for me. I ended up taking a lot of Kaplan courses when I was studying for m...

Episode 70: How tired can YOU get in medical school? Find out what to do about it and how to prevent it in this episode of the Medical School Podcast.

Medical School Fatigue is a Serious Problem

Dr. Linda Clever will tell you what you can do about it in this episode of the Medical School Podcast.

Listen in as she discusses her 5 Steps to Renew Your Energy!

Episode 69: Doctor Dan landed an exclusive interview with the ONLY licensed distributor of Gold Standard USMLE and USMLE Help. Listen here…

Want all 200 hours of USMLE Step 1 through Step 3?

When you enroll in the Basic Science Years membership, you get instant access to the USMLE Help Step 1 Biochemistry audio program, along with our base set of other USMLE Step 1 podcasts.

To keep the price low, we’ll ship you disks with the USMLE Help Step 1 Anatomy audio program and the entire Gold Standard USMLE audio program over an 18 month series. I’d suggest cutting back on one trip per week to Starbucks, use that money instead to buy these USMLE audio programs, and then get active and listen to them at the gym or while traveling!

If you are already beyond the first two years of medical school, you would be better served joining as a Clinical Science Years member. We are in the process of licensing negotiations that would allow you to receive instant access to the entire Gold Standard Foundations of Medicine audio course, with disks containing USMLE Help’s Step 2 CK, Step 2 CS, Step 3, and Gold Standard Step 2 of the Boards shipped to you over an 18 month series. This has not yet been worked out, so current Clinical Science Years members enjoy only our base set of MasterMind Podcasts for Step 2 and 3.

Compare which membership is best for you:

Episode 68: Larry Johnston from Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine tells us exactly what he did to ace his medical school Histology and Biochemistry exams. You don’t want to miss this one…

Medical School Genius

About 1 in 3,000 people can be considered genius.

But what if genius were defined as the assimilation of opportunity and elite preparation? If that’s the case, then the Study Techniques course  in the Medical Mastermind Community is exactly what you should do to improve your academic performance.

Can everyone ace medical school?

Of course not.

If everyone had access to the Study Techniques course, it could affect the medical school class’ bell curve and that would require a change on the part of the faculty.

Of course, for everything teacher may try to make tests difficult in medical school, there are those who seem to figure out their tricks and ace the exam regardless.

This podcast interview will introduce you to one of those student that can ace medical schools.

Elite preparation or Genius? You decide.

The live, interactive Webinars are one of the staples of the Medical Mastermind Community.

All members have experienced the Webinars, either live with Doctor Dan or by watching a video tutorial created from the Live Webinar recordings.

“The MMC is loaded with recorded Webinars.”

On a given Webinar, we have people at all levels of medical education, representing the Pre-MCAT Years, Post-MCAT Years, Basic Science Years, and Clinical Science Years. This fact allows us to:

* Get insight into how to perform at the next level in your career journey

* Gain confidence by learning from people who actually know what they are talking about

* Have fun skirting some of the biggest obstacles that thousands of students struggle with

* Help people right now by offering the experience you already have

The Napoleon Hill Foundation supports our style of MasterMinding!

Listen to this interview with the Education Director at the Napoleon Hill Foundation:

MasterMind Meeting format:

* Generally, topics are submitted at least one week in advance and a didactic portion of 20 minutes begins a journal-based discussion of the topic to encourage evidence-based medical education.

* Then questions are fielded.

* Finally, we each go around the virtual “room” and have up to 5 minutes to share – WITHOUT INTERRUPTION – our experiences and failures regarding the topic.

* A video recording of the introductory didactic section only will be posted inside the Archives Section for use by other community members only, not the general public. A brief portion of the presentation may be made public on the podcast and several other video web sites. If you do not want your voice heard on the recording, then wait until the didactic portion is over before asking questions. Otherwise, anonymity is enforced.

We use a hybrid model from 3 different genres:

* “The WHO?”  The Healer’s Art Course – a round table of physicians of all levels of experience and training, sharing their experiences and encouraging each other. I took this course in 2003 and learned a lot from it, so I can’t help but borrow some of their style.

* “The WHAT?”  The Mastermind Group – a structured meeting where each individual brings a success and a challenge to the group and each has an opportunity to share their experience, strength, and hope with each other

* “The HOW?” Internet Business Mastery model – a combination of electronically delivered resources (PDF’s, video tutorials, and online lessons), combined with DVD Home Study Courses with manuals shipped from fulfillment publishers

The combination of of these influences synergistically allows us to:

* Find relief in sharing and listening to experiences of life and in medical education.

* Harness the individual’s unique expertise and use it for the good of the group.

* Not limit the number of participants based on geographic isolation, access to exclusive resources, or other discriminator. Thus, we have an ideal model to level the playing field academically and professionally.