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Unavailable7: 10 Traits You Need to Succeed in Medical School
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7: 10 Traits You Need to Succeed in Medical School

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7: 10 Traits You Need to Succeed in Medical School

FromThe Premed Years

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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Jan 2, 2013
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Podcast episode

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Session 07 In today's episode, Ryan is joined for the first time by his wife, Allison Gray, who is a Senior Neurology Resident, her last year of residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. http://www.medicalschoolhq.net/about/ A senior high school student sent in a very personal email describing her dream of becoming a doctor along with her struggles in life. She also posed two questions, being: What qualities are essential to have in order to get through medical school? Do you really have to be academically gifted and grow up in an advantaged family? In response to these questions, Ryan and Allison came up with a list of qualities that would help students through medical school and even through undergraduate, residency, and beyond. 10 Traits You Need to Succeed in Medical School Discipline Self-discipline comes from your own motivation or parents and teachers As a medical student and physician, you agree to become a life long learner and you need to discipline to be able to study and keep studying. Make studying as a priority regardless of what's going on in your life Discipline is important to learn on an ongoing basis so you can serve the patients you're taking care of Persistence/Drive The journey to become a doctor is a long road and even as a physician. Keep pushing yourself even when it gets hard. Pick yourself up after each problem you encounter and move on. It's not how you fall but how you pick yourself back up. Remember that medical school is a very big investment so you have to keep pushing yourself. Humility You run into arrogant people in medical school and think they're the "best thing since sliced bread." Learn how to be humble and how to be a good team player. Challenge yourself to be the best but realize there are other people around you that have skills and knowledge. It's impossible to know everything and you have to rely on other people - There is "too much to know" all by yourself so you have to work as a team. Team Player A skill you need to hone even when still in high school such as working in study groups Participate and do whatever it takes to help out with patient care. You can't accomplish anything without a team, which is very pervasive in the field of medicine today. You will work with nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, technicians, physician assistants, social workers, case managers, and office staff. Be willing to do "scut work" - this is a common term in a hospital setting where a resident asks you to do little tasks such as getting a chart or the most minuscule tasks (but it's a different story when they ask you to pick up their dry cleaning) Bright You don't have to be a valedictorian or the smartest person in your class. Quantifying smartness can be difficult but you can look at your grades to measure your success. You need to do well in school since medical school only gets harder. Part of being bright is knowing how to know your limits and what you need to ask help with.. Adaptable You go through many different rotations in your clinical years. In medical school rotations, you'll be exposed to many different teams of people and exposed to different subject matters in a very fast pace; you get exposed to different areas of medicine all the time. You switch teams constantly with different attending physicians and every attending works differently so you have to be able to change accordingly as part of the team. Go with the flow and adapt to change. Empathic Being able to put yourself in another person's shoes and understand what they're experiencing Empathy is not sympathy. You will be taking care of patients from all walks of life and even if you come from a completely opposite background to someone, you need to provide the best care for the patient. This is one of the most key things to being a good medical student and a good physician. Your judgment or biases have no place in the pat
Released:
Jan 2, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Premed Years is an extension of MedicalSchoolHQ.net. Started by Ryan Gray and his wife Allison who are both physicians, it is another means of bringing valuable information to pre med students and medical students. With interviews with deans of medical schools, chats with trusted, valuable advisors and up-to-date news, The Premed Years and MedicalSchoolHQ.net are the goto resources for all things related to the path to medical school. We are here to help you figure out the medical school requirements. We will show you how to answer the hard questions during your medical school interviews. What is a good MCAT Score? What is the best MCAT Prep? What the heck is the AMCAS? What is the best undergraduate program? What is medical school like? What so you do to volunteer and shadow? Get your questions answered here.