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    You Can Nail It
    You Can Nail It
    You Can Nail It
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    You Can Nail It

    By David R. Gross

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    Imagine what it feels like to nail a three-point basket, just as the buzzer goes off, and win the game! A lot of preparation and practice are necessary to make that happen. You can duplicate that feeling when you open the letter accepting you into medical, dental or veterinary school. To have a successful career in medicine, veterinary medicine or dentistry students must be able to compete.

    This guide is for only those students who want to do everything possible to gain acceptance into a medical, dental or veterinary school. It teaches how to prepare and how to practice for academic competition. Successful students prepare themselves by improving their time management skills and learning efficiency. Improving learning efficiency results in better understanding, better mastery of the material, and better grades (the score). Efficient and effective learning also provides maximum free time for non-academic activities, a critical part of the total learning experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid R. Gross
    Release dateSep 9, 2011
    ISBN9780982971369
    You Can Nail It
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    David R. Gross

    David R. Gross practiced veterinary medicine for ten years before returning to school to earn MS and PhD degrees. He taught and performed research for thirty-six years, completing his academic career as professor and head of the basic science department at the Veterinary School of the University of Illinois. Gross has co-edited three multi-authored textbooks, authored more than one hundred scientific articles, and given many scientific talks at national and international meetings. Since retirement, he has written and published 3 memoirs, a historical novel and a self-help book. He currently lives in Everett, Washington.

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      You Can Nail It - David R. Gross

      You Can Nail It

      by David R. Gross, DVM, PhD

      Copyright 2011 David R. Gross

      Smashwords Edition

      Dedication:

      To all those undergraduate students who did not get accepted into a professional program because they did not know how to manage their time, study and learn effectively and efficiently or how best to prepare for and take an exam. To all those first year veterinary and medical students who were smart enough to gain acceptance into a program but found they were making Cs and Ds, or worse, instead of the expected As and Bs because the competition was so fierce. I wish I could have helped all of you more when you needed my help.

      Acknowledgments:

      To my wife Rosalie who for fifty-one plus years has always been supportive.

      Preface

      Imagine what it feels like to nail a three-point basket, just as the buzzer goes off, and win the game! A lot of preparation and practice are necessary to make that happen. You can duplicate that feeling when you open the letter accepting you into medical, dental or veterinary school.

      To have a successful career in medicine, veterinary medicine or dentistry students must be able to compete academically. Students must compete to get into a good undergraduate program in a top-rated college or university. Pre-professional undergraduates must compete successfully to gain admission to a professional school. Students in a professional program must continue to compete successfully to gain acceptance into the best internship and residency programs. To have a successful career doctors must continue to improve their knowledge and skills and strive to be the very best they can be, the essence of competition.

      If you accept and practice the concepts described in this guide you will prepare yourself for success by improving your time management skills and learning efficiency. When you improve learning efficiency, the result is better understanding, better mastery of the material, and better grades. Efficient and effective learning also provides maximum free time for non-academic activities, experiences that are a critical to forming the whole professional.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Building the Foundation

      1.1. Learn to study and learn effectively

      1.2, How to set the stage for future success

      1.3. The importance of academic success

      Chapter 2: Undergraduate, pre-professional

      2.1. Learning to compete fairly and effectively

      2.2. Get organized

      2.3. Set priorities

      2.4. Make certain you have all the requirements

      2.5. Choosing electives wisely

      2.6. Time management

      2.7. Where to go for information on requirements and

      the application process

      2.8. How to nail your interview

      Chapter 3: Some things to do before classes start

      3.1. How a professional curriculum differs from your

      previous experience

      3.2. Get organized

      3.3. Build an effective study and learning environment

      3.4. Develop a realistic learning schedule

      3,5, Learn efficiently

      3.6. Trial schedules

      3.7. Specific things to do prior to the first day of class

      Chapter 4: The real secret for success

      4.1. Preparation before class

      4.2. Making the most of in-class time

      4.3. Review as soon as possible after class

      4.4. Use your study time wisely

      4.5. Levels of learning

      4.6. Revising your schedule

      Chapter 5: Preparing for the first round of exams

      5.1. A list of lame excuses I have already heard

      5.2. Remember, the goal is constant improvement

      5.3. Group study

      5.4. Use your study group to help you improve your

      Study schedule

      5.5. Speed, the key to free time

      5.6. Things you need to do for personal satisfaction

      5.7. Let’s recap

      Chapter 6: How to take exams successfully

      6.1. "Tricks" to get ready for exams

      6.2. Objective questions

      6.3. Subjective questions

      6.4. Essay questions

      6.5. Flash cards

      6.6. Using old exams

      6.7. Mimic the exam environment

      6.8. Tricks during the exam

      6.9. Cheating

      Chapter 7: What to do for your next round of exams

      7.1. If you did well continue with what you have been

      doing, it is working

      7.2. If you did poorly on the first round of exams now

      is the time to diagnose problems

      7.3. Improve your guessing game

      7.4. If you still need help

      Chapter 8: Do not take life-long decisions lightly

      Chapter 9: Preparing yourself for final exams

      Chapter 10: Postgraduate, internships, residency, and

      Fellowship programs

      10.1. Compete successfully

      10.2. Stay organized

      10.3. Setting priorities with even more stringent time

      constraints

      10.4. Time management when you do not have complete

      control

      Chapter 11: Life-long learninglearning

      Chapter 1: Building the Foundation

      Learn to study and learn effectively

      As long as you can remember, you have always wanted to be a veterinarian (or a pediatrician, or a surgeon, or a cardiologist, or an orthodontist). If you learn to study effectively and efficiently, you will be able to learn and retain a lot of useful information, make very good grades, and have many good choices on what to do with your life. Even if you decide against being a doctor, you will have more free time for fun.

      The techniques described in this guide promote effective studying, learning, test taking, and time management. Any student, at any level, can adapt and adopt these techniques. It is all about making efficient use of your time, using tried and true methods of studying, and being good at taking exams.

      Here is a little philosophy. If you feel up to it, read on. If not, what the heck! We do not appreciate most philosophers during their lifetime anyhow.

      Think seriously about the kind of person you would really like to be for the rest of your life. Do you want to be a unique professional or just an assembly-line product? Start now to identify the academic areas in which you are most interested. If you are interested, you will do the best work while exploiting your strengths. As you progress through your formal education select electives and learning options in areas you are the most excited about. Do extra work in those areas. Formulate a plan to deal with any academic weaknesses without sacrificing time to improve on your strengths. Consciously and systematically, make the effort to think about how you can deal with others more effectively.

      For example, do not spend hours with classmates and study groups without learning how to improve and maximize relationships. Take the time to treat, react, interact, and deal with every person with whom you come in contact the same way you want that person to relate to you. It takes time, effort, commitment, and thought to do this, especially when you are tired, out of sorts, irritated, short tempered or not feeling well. Ask yourself; how would I want this person, or this group of people, to interact with me under these circumstances? If you treat others accordingly, you will find life is more enjoyable and infinitely more rewarding. That is the real key to success, professionally and personally.

      1.2. How to set the stage for future success

      Effective, efficient learning requires four specific

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