One common question that many aspiring med students want a definitive answer to is: how long should I study or prepare to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)? The question seems simple enough, but the “right” answer is far from simple. The truth is: there is really no right answer. For me, the right […]
Lost in the Sauce: M1 Study Tips
This post is mainly for my M1s, but it can totally be helpful to any M2-M4s reading! It’s very easy to get ~lost in the sauce~ in medical school, and by that I mean the load of information coming at you each and every day! I get it — it’s a lot! It’s like nothing […]
It’s Not Just Muscle Memory
When we first started learning all the shoulder, arm, forearm, and hand muscles in anatomy, I felt extremely helpless. There were SO many muscles in the forearm that sounded so similar, with such long names – flexor carpi radialis, extensor carpi radialis, flexor digitorum radialis, etc. It didn’t help that the muscles were pretty difficult […]
