 How do I become an amazing student on my clinical rotations? In this video guys, I'm not going to only share with you how to become an honor student or how to get your attending to like you. I've done that in the past, but instead I'm going to give you a simple system on how to go from start to finish on any rotation and simply 10x your results and become a freakishly awesome clinical student and you're going to be hard to ignore. Now that sounds attractive, I'm going to give you that system after this intro. Alright guys, what is going on? Luxury of an MD journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. If you're new to this channel and you want to learn how to not only survive on your medical journey but thrive then consider giving this video a like first of all and then subscribe to this channel and join the community. You'll also be helping me get to my impossible goal for the year with just 25,000 subscribers so go ahead and subscribe if you haven't already. But again in this video we are going to talk about how to 10x your results as a clinical student, not just how to get honors, not how to do well on your shelf exam. If you follow the steps in this video you're going to be able to do all of those but also take yourself to a completely different level and by the end of your clinical rotations and your third year you're going to be leaving most of your peers in the dust and if that sounds attractive let's get into the system. So the first part guys is on a daily level you need to be creating a list of need to know. Sounds weird but as we're creating a to-do list as we're taking care of our patients there are going to be things that were taught things that come up that just doesn't make sense right. My attending for example maybe teaching me about an EKG and I may be nodding along but half the stuff doesn't even seem like English it doesn't make sense so what you can do is just have a way I usually have a sticky note on the bottom of my patients charts and I just write everything that I need to look up that night. Anything that didn't make sense an acronym that I don't know what it stands for a medication that I don't really understand what it's used for anything a disease when you first start a rotation you're going to have a huge list of need to know it makes sense you still are mastering the basics but every single day your only goal is aside from whatever studying you're giving yourself is before I go to bed I'm going to be looking up every single thing on here some things are gonna be very quick you're gonna be able to google a term really quickly and then realize oh that's what that stood for I understand that anyways or you may just have to watch a quick video and then understand the concept but make sure it's a goal for you at the start of a rotation for you to create a list of need to know and every night get through that list what you'll find guys is as you progress day in and day out towards your end of your rotation you're going to master the basics pretty quickly your classmates are still going to be working on the basics because they're not keeping a list of what they want to look at instead they're relying on other resources they're relying on like you world and they hope it shows up on their practice questions that's a fine technique for doing decent on the shelf exam but if you're proactive on answering the questions that you're weak at you're going to get to the advanced topics much quicker and a couple benefits come out of it one you're just going to look comfortable on the rotation your attending says something your resident says something it feels natural because you looked it up and you don't have that gap in your knowledge anymore your classmates may honestly still made they do that nod that we always do but really not understand what the topic is but you're going to be able to use that topic and apply it to your patient people are going to be able to see without you even bragging that you know what you're doing you know what you're talking about so that comfort level is going to come out if you keep a list of need to know and cross it off on a daily basis the second thing that comes off is you do better on your shelf exam and here's why normally we study we do practice questions and then we try to review it the last couple of weeks before the exam doing this technique guys you tend to remember things much better you know those questions that show up in your self exam the ones where you've had a patient with that disease or you've treated somebody with that medication those are like you know low hanging fruits easy money question that you love to see the more you start doing a list of need to know you're basically going to be giving yourself more opportunities to have low hanging fruits and easy money questions so i found that you know whenever i would do it even if my patient didn't have a specific disease if an attending mention disease i would just write it down quickly look it up and it usually sometimes that would show up on the exam and i don't think i would have learned it otherwise i wouldn't have learned it through you world or another practice question or review book but i learned it just because i had to look it up and i felt comfortable it's probably a hard question for most of my peers but i had seen it you know in one sense or another and so it helped me do well on those shelf exams so just keeping a list of done keeps you more comfortable for those questions that most people are put on their toes for so make sure you do the list of done if you want to do well on your shelf exam now the final bit that comes with keeping a list of done and basically working on your gaps of knowledge from the very start is every rotation that you go through guys you're going to have less and less um gaps you know even if you're on obi-gan rotation then you go into internal medicine and then you go to family and neuro all those are different but medicine still overlaps throughout many fields and so if you know how certain medications work in one patient population you're going to be able to apply similar principles in another there's going to be less for you to learn but if you're still trying to learn how to treat blood pressure when you're in internal medicine then re-learn it when you're on neurology you know that's just extra effort that you could have been using to master topics within those specific fields so as you go through your list of need to know and you start mastering things you're going to have less basic concepts to master on new rotations and you can move quicker to advanced topics you're going to be that student where everyone's like oh man he's so smart or he or she is so smart and they just know what they're doing you want to get to that point so i promise you guys if you create a list of needs to know cross it off on a daily basis by the end of your rotation you're going to be just on a different level and keep doing that over rotation over rotation that promise you you're going to just be able to 10x your results and that's what really you want because you want to become the best version of a clinician that you can possibly be so that's my simple system guys on how to become a 10x clinical student at the start create a list of things that you don't know look them up fill in those gaps and keep at it and you are going to become just much more comfortable with the material the variant you're just going to see how far you are compared to your classmates that's where you want to be right so hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did just comment down below let me know one thing you're going to plan to take away from this video or any questions you guys have about your clinical rotations honestly you could say hi i'm more than happy to just kind of communicate interact with you guys in the comment section so go ahead and comment down below with your comments if you did like this video make sure you give it a like subscribe to this channel and join the 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