How I Create BALANCE Even In Medical School // 3 Steps to Create the PERFECT Study Routine

Hey friends! In this week's video, I'm breaking down EXACTLY how I create a study routine that works for me and my goals as a first-year medical student and more importantly, how you can do it too!
One of my GOALS in life is literally to share to as many students as possible that you CAN indeed have a life in medical school. Lol anyway, be sure to download the workbook I created to go along with this video too! Hope you enjoy!!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - intro
0:44 - Step 1: define your goals
0:28 - Step 2: brainstorm your perfect week
05:43 - Step 3: time block your week in detail
11:10 - top 4 routines to make your study routine stick
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[@cyajohnson9701]

Omg!! I’m starting med school this fall and I was dreading long study days + giving up my weekends to study but this is giving me so much hope. I love the idea of treating it like a “hard” 9-5 job! The pdf doc is perfect! Thank you! 😭

[@itslifebymaggie]

You’re so welcome, glad it was helpful! Best of luck in med school, you’re gonna crush it!! ✨

[@jared394]

Can you do a short video on how you use google calendar? Thanks!

[@bhavikadarji3448]

This is so helpful!!! Keeping this saved for starting my first year this year, thank you!

[@itslifebymaggie]

Yay I’m glad!!

[@thankgodsunday8461]

❤❤

[@nexusSix_237]

Lol..the pharmacist I worked with did the same. As soon as she was accepted in the pharmacy program she just got C's and "relaxed"....she said because once your IN your IN . It's getting accepted that's the hard part.

[@genesisrojas1015]

Wow. 😮… Well said. Is a pass fail school a DO school? Osteopathic? Do MD schools do the traditional grading that Maggie avoided? I’m just trying to understand how it works… thanks guys.

[@ivannamorejon8745]

SOOO HELPFUL!! Thank you 💓 I’m an incoming MS1, how do you prevent feeling guilty/bad for skipping certain topics during studying?

[@itslifebymaggie]

I’m so glad it’s helpful!! I think feeling guilty is inevitable honestly because we are human and it’s in our nature to want to do everything so well but I think back to my #1 goal which is to pass. If it’s super important then I can still stop studying by 6:30 but then plan to do it first thing the next morning! And if I do that I usually study it better in the morning anyway so it’s a win win!

[@Tclaughable01]

U don't need to think about grades , if you study for grades you won't benefit anything from these studies , remember in the future those studies will safe a life of a patient

[@genesisrojas1015]

Is a pass fail school a DO /Osteopathic school? Do MD schools do the traditional grading that Maggie avoided? I’m just trying to understand how it works… thanks guys

[@itslifebymaggie]

The DO schools I Interviewed at all had traditional grading and most of the MD schools I interviewed at had P/F. It can be either type of grading whether it’s DO or MD!

[@pounepoune1]

Is it common to have a “pass/fail” kind of school? I think it’s great to not have to obsess about grades but I didn’t realize that was something med schools did. Don’t grades ultimately matter to know where you’re gonna match?!

[@itslifebymaggie]

Lots of schools have a pass/fail grading system! And there’s a bunch of other factors that are important for residency like letters of rec, grades from clinical years, research, etc!

[@breynoso19]

It's becoming a lot more common now, but schools sometimes still rank students within the P/F system. The STEP 1 was recently changed to P/F. This is good as getting the highest of grades isn't the only thing that makes a good doctor. Now they also take into consideration what else you do in med school: research, rotations, community involvement, letters of rec/clinical evaluations, etc...