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MY ADVICE TO THE NEWEST PRECLINICAL STUDENTS.

Congratulations to you all. I'm using ISIs and venmotors as a point of contact.
In as much as I would like to commend you all for a job well done, passing the premed and moving on to the promise land, I also want to reiterate that your journey to becoming a doctor/dentist just got started. Premed is notorious for painting the wrong picture of what the medical school truly entails, and the earlier you begin to disinhibit your senses from the euphoria of your premed accomplishments, the better med school might be for you. It's no longer a myth that the correlation between premed and medical school proper is almost nonexistent or very thin so to say, that's why in places like the USA one can study music at premed and still doing very well in medical school. Indeed, Medical school is an entirely very different 'pot of soup' not similar to anything you've ever come across before. Your degrees in pharmacology, pharmacy, anatomy, biochemistry, physiology etc, often becomes redundant once you set your foot into medical school.
Things are just different here and even the military can't boast of such rigour and organisation. That's medical school for you.

Learn to be serious: One important mistake preclinical students often repeat is the culture of taking things for granted. This is often orchestrated by the fact that most of us started reading even before the commencement of lectures or even worse, when we already have a degree in one of the preclinical subjects, let say anatomy. This often makes us feel there's no need learning "flexion and extention" since we already knew the circle of Willis. Attitudes like this often leaves us less attentive in class especially when very simple concept are being discussed, because we feel they are too simple and doesn’t deserve our time. The problem here is not that anybody will ever ask you flexion and extension in exams, but that we are starting on a wrong footing, which is "inattentiveness" in the the class. This often results to more episodes of inattentiveness, until it becomes a habit. Don't even make the mistake of thinking that you get serious when more difficult concepts are discussed, often at times it results in a vicious cycle, where you continously see every concept being discussed as below your standard. In as much as I will like to advice you to start reading as early as your premed days, please whenever you're in class, always keep your knowledge aside and pay close attention to whatever concept the lecturer is discussing, that way you will get the opportunity of adding more to your knowledge and becoming better. Seek knowledge like a hungry lion, don't ever take anything for granted in medical school.

Your style of studying: I have to talk about this because it's very clear that most medical students especially preclinical students do not know how to and what to study at any instance. The problem here is not that we don't have a good reading culture and cannot not 'jack' till day break. No, the issues pertains to the fact that we don't study smart. Earlier on this page, I shared an experience of how I studied with last anatomy and clinched a distinction in anatomy. We all need to understand that MBBS is an undergraduate degree and as such we have to make studying more appealing and realistic, not cumbersome as though we are doing PhD. Sincerely, there's no sense in reading Keith Moore or guyton cover to cover, apart from the fact that you barely have time for that, it's very difficult to retain information in such books. Your aim should be, retaining as much information as possible not filling your room with big books. Pick a single textbook that's concise and straight to the point, then kill yourself on it. Repetition is the key to knowledge, so why not choose reading ganong for a third time, when your peers are still yet to finish Guyton for the first time. Who do you think will be better of? Also, another important blunder I have seen most medical student commit, is reading too many textbooks at a time. My brother you will end up confusing yourself and burning up your energy for nothing. Sincerely, you don't need so many resources, just master one and make others your reference resources. There are other ways we learn in medical school, lectures, practical sessions, tutorials, and even online. Explore this alternatives, and don't kill your self on tons of BIG BOOKS. You should know that the best student is not he who has tons of textbooks, but he who has tons of information.

Setting goals: We should all learn this. I'm happy whenever I meet young preclinical students talking about how they want to get distinction in all the subjects. This is a very good way to kick off your medical school. Set goals, even high falutin ones. One important thing about setting goals as this is that, it keeps you on your heels always, you might not be able to acheive most of these goals at the end of the day, let say getting a distinction, but for sure you will never struggle in medical school. There's a very thin line between passing and failing in med school, unfortunately everyone is predisposed to this two spectrums. But passing becomes normal and natural, when you set goals far higher than just to pass. You will discover that when people are running helter scelter during an MBBS exams, you will calm because the worse that can happen to you is to pass.
Another aspect that you shouldn't ignore is working on these goals and bringing them into fruition. It takes great efforts, and at no time should ever deviate. Fight to the end, and you will reap the fruit of your labour.

Handling success and failure: Both success and failures could be a double edge sword, and you should be careful which edge you've choose at a particular time. Handling success in medical school is very paramount. If you mismanage your raining days, be rest assured you will plunge yourself into dry season prematurely. Whenever you do very well in a test or an exams, please learn to be humble, remain focused and fix your eyes on the price. Whatever success you acheive should act as a catalyst for more success, more like a positive feedback. But I have discovered that people often allow there success get into their heads, and you shouldn't be found in such category. Whenever you do well a test, you become popular and the next is that everyone wants to be your friend, you begin to organise tutorials, moving from pillar to post, always on the go. I'm not saying you shouldn't share your knowledge with your peers, off course you should, but don't develop short term memory as to how you arrived at your point of success. Don't abandon your books because you felt you've arrived. It will surely backfire. Handle success with care in other to acheive more sucees. Failure on the other hand should be handled with upmost care. Never dwell on your failure. When you don't get it right, forge ahead with good spirit and determination to get it right the next time. Never look back at your failure and don't ever get depressed because you failed.

Dissociate yourself from toxic people: There are this category of people that always see the negative side of everything. It will do you alot of good never to found yourself mixing up with such people. They will infect you and soon you will become like them. Discover people that see the two sides of everything, and make them your friends, if you must have any. Be with people that inspire you always, people that share similar dreams with you, that way you will enjoy medical school. More importantly, never allow people's negative opinions get to you, especially when you are doing well. People often mock excellence and excellent individuals, and you should get used to the fact that their opinions has no bearing on your life. Shame them with more success and excellence, that's their remedy.

Get involved: Finally, don't be carried away by the rigour of medical school. Get involved in other things. Broaden your knowledge.
Try sports, politics, history, art, movies. Be refreshed all the time. Because the best doctor is one who knows little about everything.

I wish you all the best.

Many thanks to you sir for this invaluable advice.
You really made my day; I'll keep this in mind.
Thanks again.

Xsem:
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It seems you have information about this scholarship. Please I would like to know how it's done.
Thanks

People are not the ones to make choice for you. If you don't know much about any of the courses, make research through the internet and individuals studying the courses to get more enlightened.

I would advise you to forget about the starting level, whether 100level or 200level, and focus more on other more important factors. The year is almost unimportant here since anything such as strike, loss of accreditation, or even failure/repetition of a year(though I don't wish you any of this) can make things worst. The most important factor to be considered is what your dream for choosing a medical course is(which of them will offer you the opportunity to achieve such dream?), which of them will give you the satisfaction you need? Other factors such as the school and its history with accreditation and strike, number admitted compared to MDCN quota for the school, pass rate in the school's MBBS/BDS exams could be considered.

In addition, you can ask this question in this thread on Nairaland: "The medical students and aspirants thread" to get more enlightened and properly guided by students in both fields.

I advise you not to waste your time on that site. That site is a scam. Many people, including me, have tried it in the past; it never pays.

HeirApparent:
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself"
(Albert Einstein)
How can a student understand his/her subjects so well that he or she could simply explain it succinctly to a six year old? Is that even possible?
Yes it is. I assure you it's possible, if only you're willing to put in the intellectual work required. In my last post, I did say that the proper place to start studying your textbook is the fundamental concept of the subject. And that you can express the definition of the central concept of the subject in your own words, without distorting its sense.
To succeed at this, you need to do some due diligence in checking up the meaning from other sources outside your textbook such as an encyclopaedia, dictionary, internet e.t.c. Then compare your findings with the definition in your textbook. Try to determine what is common to all of them and get a sense of what they all agree on. Write out what you think their shared meaning is. Do you understand it? Can you express it again in other words? Can you explain it further? Can you illustrate it? Can you give an example of how it applies to real life situations? Once you succeed in having a firm grasp of this central concept, being able to express and explicate it in your own words, it becomes a formidable framework within which you can integrate other "parts" of the textbook.
You see, the proof of your understanding of a subject or course is not your ability to reel out definitions but in your ability to express basic concepts briefly and concisely, in your own words, explain it in clear and simple terms, illustrate it using analogy, as well as give example of how it applies to real life scenarios.
What is calculus? Can you explain the concept of calculus to a six year old, using your own words? How does calculus apply to your everyday life? Can you illustrate the concept of calculus, using the appropriate analogy?
Friends, I kid you not, there is a path to real knowledge. Though the terrain is rough and tough, the discoveries it makes possible are phenomenal!
Can I digress a bit? Please indulge me.
We are living in very strange times and we can't afford to continue in this feeble mode of learning any more. The times have changed. The quality of your life is a function of the quality of your thinking. Please, don't do yourself a disservice by being obsessed with merely obtaining a good certificate (it's not wrong in itself), but concern yourself more with cultivating your intellect. Learn to exercise your mind by thinking through the logic of your textbooks.
Does it not bother you that despite spending 3yrs in studying the human anatomy in your secondary school biology(even if it's at the elementary level), yet, most biology students can't explain how all "parts" of their own body function together as a coherent whole? And this is after being taught the anatomical systems: The skeletal system, nervous system, respiratory system, reproductive system, circulatory system, digestive system, excretory system and immune system. Plus all the sense organs: the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and the skin.
It breaks my heart when brilliant and A-list biology students stutter and beat about the bush when asked to explain the functional relationship between the nervous system and the excretory system. If you belong or once belonged to these league of smart students, yet you cant give us a clear picture of how these several parts of our body interrelate mutually as a whole, please, "hide your face!" (I'm only kidding). Did I hear you say that what am saying are things that are supposed to be learned in a medical class? Not true. Remember that a medical class is an extension of a biology class.
Am I trying to have a go at biology students? Definitely not. I was a victim myself! It's not a student problem (students have a role to play though). It's a system problem. The dilapidated state of our educational system is my recurrent nightmare. But, I strongly belief you and I can effect a drastic change. Meanwhile, thanks for indulging me.

I give you kudos for this wonderful and indispensable message.
I really learnt a lot from this. In fact, I see this message as personally directed to me.
Thank you very much.

Please if you wouldn't mind, you can make this an update to your first post.

On another note, I seek permission to copy this but with proper acknowledgment.

okwabayi:
...all this plenty talk yet the crux of the matter was still not mentioned.
Tufia!

Don't be in a haste, and forget that every work has a background, an objective and an introduction.
Therefore, knowing how to convey his message is the writer's judgement.

Even if there are flaws to the process adopted, I expected to see a constructive, not destructive, criticism.

HeirApparent:
If Education were a religion, textbooks would be the bible or quran of academic subjects. All textbooks focus on a special way of thinking about a special set of things. Chemistry textbooks focus on a special way of thinking about chemicals and how they interact. Psychology textbooks focus on a special way of thinking about human behaviour. Mathematics textbooks focus on a special way of thinking about numbers, shapes and figures. Physics textbooks teach a special way of thinking about mass and energy and their interactions. Biology textbooks teach a special way of thinking about living things. History textbooks (not historical novels) teach a special way of thinking about events in the past. This is true of all textbooks without exeption. To study textbooks properly, students must be able to identify the Big picture within it. That is, to see and identify the "scaffolding" that connects all the ideas within the textbook. This scaffolding or framework is the basic and fundamental concept of the subject. What is psychology? What is physics? What is economics? What is financial accounting? More often than not, students tend to read this introduction to the subject or course and erroneously memorize the definition, before hastily moving to other parts of the textbook. This is absolutely wrong! It simply reveals most students' misconception of what knowledge really is. As a student, you need to understand that your textbook (in any subject) is a repository of knowledge, in a derivative form. Do you know what that means? Imagine, for a moment, a newly manufactured motorcycles from Japan, disassembled for the purpose of shipping to Nigeria. That's how textbooks are. They contain "disassembled" knowledge (Knowledge in its analyzed form). Now, when those motorcycles arrive in Nigeria, they are again reassembled, ready for sale. In like manner, students must learn to "reassemble" the "disassembled" knowledge in their textbooks. Which means your chemistry textbook, for example, is a body of chemical facts and information that you must systematically construct and integrate into your mind in such a way that they form a "system" of meaning in your mind. This system of meaning is what I call "knowledge" in that subject. But, this systematic construction requires "building" skills. Here's how it works:
*As a knowledge builder, like all skilled builders, your first preoccupation is the foundation of your subject. In the introductory page or preface of most of your textbooks, it contains the definition and general overview of the subject: What is sociology? What is government?
Pay a close attention to this definition, with a view to conceptualizing the meaning it expresses. That is, instead of trying to memorize the definition, you are trying to understand what the definition is saying about the subject.
Please, understand that "meaning" is created by the human mind and encoded in a system of language. To get the meaning, you must decode the system of language within which it is embedded. It is interesting to know that a given "meaning" can be expressed in several ways, without sacrificing the core sense of the expression. For example:
1)Chief Edmond gave up the ghost yesterday.
2)Yesterday, Chief Edmond breathed his last
3) Chief Edmond, yesterday, was taken away by the cold hand of death
4)Chief Edmond's demise occured yesterday
5)Chief Edmond kicked the bucket yesterday.
Etc etc
Here are 5 different constructions (there could be more), expressing basically, the same meaning without distorting its core sense of "death".
The point I'm making is that the definitions in your textbooks are not sacrosanct and you can succeed in expressing its meaning in your own words without distortion. Of course I'm aware that every subject has technical terms or "concepts" peculiar to it and sometimes, some of these concepts are used to define the subject. Moreover, retaining these concepts in your definitions lend more credence to it. So, how do we sort this out? This is a legitimate question and we shall consider it in the next post. Thanks for stopping by.

This is very nice; you are actually making a great point.
However, you should have included the second part here.

Please you can still do it now.

Again, if you wouldn't mind, you can edit the text and insert distinct paragraphs to increase its readability.

Thanks for your anticipated understanding.

crafteck:
Being devoted or not has nothing to do with being intelligent

You misunderstood the topic.
The topic does not say you must be or need to be a devoted Christian to be intelligent. Instead, by saying you can, it is a correction to those who see being devoted as a distraction to success, and an encouragement to those who wants to be devoted to their faith and still become successful.

In summary, it's just telling the public that being both is very possible.

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MercyPromise7:
I'm sorry. It's creative nonfiction, that's why it's a bit long.
Thanks anyway for the complement. I might find some of my interesting stories to post on this platform in subsequent days.

Wow!
Such a nice story.
Forget about the length. I can even use the story to improve my vocabulary.
Thanks a lot.