 Hey everybody, welcome back to my channel. So this episode I wanted to talk to you guys about the ways that I found support throughout my journey into medicine, specifically medical school and residency. How did I make my way and what support did I use and what support networks were important to me? So I'll talk about that in this episode because I think that's super important as far as helping you just kind of get encouragement along the way and just actually basically helping you make it through. So I'd have to say I really relied heavily on my friends. You know people who were also going through the same training and medical school education as me that understood my struggles and you know had the same goals. That was really instrumental. It was something that you know as we were all going through the process we were able to support each other, study of course and study groups together. Pretty much you know kind of be a shoulder to lean on when things got really rough and stressful. So I think a support group of like-minded people who are doing the same thing you're doing is really essential. The one thing that really helped me at med school was a study group people that I found in my class that were similar to me as far as personality and study habits go and that motivated me throughout and we worked together pretty much through all of our major exams like step one. So those people really were pivotal in my success in medical school. So I found that trying to study alone really wasn't as effective because a lot of times you're easily distracted like me or you just kind of need someone to push you to motivate you because it's really tough to do that on your own a lot of times. Especially in the subjects that are really hardline biochemistry, anatomy you know it's kind of hard to like you know get all that knowledge memorized on your own because that's all it is just memorization. So study groups really helped in that setting and then when we studied for our board exams we really pushed each other we did questions together and we just had like marathon study sessions. So we would all get together cook food reward ourselves with fun activities afterwards and that's how we made it through and honestly speaking that's the only reason why I would my group did very well on our step one is because we really really pushed each other. So that's something to look into early. And so I highly recommend if you're a med student aspiring med student in undergrad find yourself a study group and really connect with the people in the group so that you guys can have something that's pulling you together to keep you guys on top of each other when it's time to motivate one another to study and do well. So hopefully you'll take this advice and good luck with everything. I know exams are finishing up for this semester so good luck to you guys and I'll see you next time in the next video.