 and they just wanted to know what they could do, what they were doing wrong, what they could possibly do to ensure success in this next semester of physician assistant training as opposed to the first semester when they did not do so well. Common mistakes, problems that people have that cause failure, a basic study plan template that you can follow in order to set yourself up to have success from the very beginning of the semester. The things that you can do today in order to improve your success in school. Hey guys, my name is Boris, I'm a physician assistant and today my video is going to be about failing in PA school. Of course, the lessons in this video can be applied to failing in medical school, nursing school, undergraduate education, anytime where you're in a high stress academic environment but specifically this is going to be about PA school because what inspired this video is a counseling that I did with somebody who found me through my YouTube channel who had unfortunately just had to take a leave of absence due to not doing well in their first semester in PA school and now they're going to start again in a new semester and they just wanted to know what they could do, what they were doing wrong, what they could possibly do to ensure success in this next semester of physician assistant training as opposed to the first semester when they did not do so well. And so this video is going to be broken up into three sections. The first one is gonna be common mistakes, bad habits, things that people do studying, not studying, just common mistakes, problems that people have that cause failure in PA school and other high stress academic environments. Section two is going to be a basic study plan template that you can follow in order to set yourself up to have success from the very beginning of the semester. This is not gonna be a very comprehensive thing because I don't know exactly what classes you're taking but this is just gonna be rudimentary bare bones exactly how I personally found success and I found that other students that I had that found success in physician assistant training. And then of course, section three is going to be things that you can do today in order to improve your success in school. Whether you're just getting started, whether you haven't started yet or you're already a few weeks into the semester, things that you can implement today in order to find better success in PA school, medical school, nursing school, undergraduate, whatever program you're currently in. All right, so here we go. Let's start with common mistakes. And I hope you don't mind, I'm gonna be reading off my notes here. So, common mistake number one, idealism. People who make this mistake might say things like, I have to learn everything because it's so important or I'm hesitant to use on key quizlets, resources from other students, study guides from other students, maybe that have been passed down. I hesitate to use these resources because I think that I should know more in depth the information that I'm learning from my classes. So yes, you should know the information in depth, the better you know the information, the better you're gonna do. Unfortunately, idealism like this is going to bite you in the butt and possibly prevent you from having success or even passing your semester. And then your entire education is basically useless because you're not gonna pass the program, you can't sit for the boards or whatever exam you have to take, like the pants, and you're not gonna become a physician assistant, doctor, nurse, whatever your training program might be. So this kind of idealism, although it's correct, the more you know the better if you focus too much on learning more than you really need to know in order to pass the exams, you may not make it through the program and that's gonna hurt you long term. So idealism, I have to learn everything that is going to bite you in the butt. The more you know the better. However, you'll only get to practice and apply this knowledge if you end up passing the program and your licensing exam. Your job right now is not to learn absolutely everything. It's not even to learn as much as you possibly can. Your job right now is to learn just as much as necessary to pass and hopefully do well on your next exam. And then the one after that and then the one after that and then you move on to the next topic and that's it. I'm just gonna repeat myself one time for emphasis. Your job right now is not to learn everything. It's not even to learn as much as you can. It is to learn enough to pass your next exam and then move on. Common mistake number two, neglecting necessary information and resources. So what's gonna be on the exam, right? The age old question, the all important question and we don't know exactly. Nobody knows exactly what your professor is going to choose to put on the exam. What we do know, however, is the information and the resources that the professor will use in order to make the exam. And when I say we do know this, that's only if you're prepared and you're using all the resources necessary and you've done your research on this particular class. So the most important thing to know is what the professor uses in order to make the exams. Is it gonna be a textbook? Is it gonna be PowerPoint slides? Is it just things said verbally during the lecture? Is it some other resource that you don't even know about that might be uploaded to Blackboard and that you may not even know about? The professor may or may not even talk about it but they draw questions from this resource in order to make questions for your exam. So the most important thing is to know what resources your professor uses in order to make the exam and to study those resources. It sounds self-explanatory, it sounds obvious, but you would be shocked how many people fail because they don't study from the proper resources. And sometimes, like me, I was guilty of this, they may not even know that certain necessary resources that the professor uses to make their exams that those resources even exist. I promise you this is important and people have failed because of neglecting to study the necessary resources. So make sure you know exactly what your professor has at their disposal, PowerPoint slides, book chapters, labs, lecture materials, additional resources, et cetera. This is a perfect example, okay? This is from my own PA school failure and then also success in the same class. So during my first semester, I actually started doing quite poorly in physiology. Well, I studied and I studied very hard and I used the PowerPoint slides and also the book chapters in Netters Anatomy that were assigned, but I failed or I did not do well. I got like high 70s, low 80s, which was not enough to pass sometimes. I completely neglected a Word document, a Microsoft Word document that the professor had posted to our Blackboard folder. Now sometimes the professor did use this document in class and sometimes she even referenced it, but sometimes she did not. However, every exam did draw a lot of the questions from this document, which until about halfway through the semester, I didn't even realize existed. So once I discovered this document, I can't remember who told me about it, but once I discovered it, I started incorporating the information therein into my studying and I started doing very well in physiology. I think I even pulled up my grade to like a B plus or maybe even an A or A minus. I started doing very, very well, but only after I discovered this document that was totally necessary to my success. I even, this is gonna be a total humble brag, a not humble brag. This is just me bragging because I'm so proud of this. This is my proudest moment in PA school. I even set the curve on one of the physiology exams that everybody was freaking out about because I learned literally every single thing that was in this extra document and that's only after I discovered it. So the point is make sure you know all of the possible sources of information that your professor is going to draw exam questions from. All right, common mistake number three and this one's kind of related to number one but it's a little separate so I thought it was worthwhile giving it its own number. This is mistake number three, which is called focusing on smaller topics at the extent of bigger topics. Some might say it's called getting into the weeds. So what is getting into the weeds? It's basically wasting your time, getting way too much detail, learning way too many details that are cool to know, it's fun to geek out about and might even help you in your clinical practice. However, at this time, like I said, your primary job is passing the exam and getting into the weeds, studying these smaller topics, wasting your time and energy on these smaller topics that you may not need for the exam, that's getting into the weeds. So usually, not always, but usually, bigger and more important topics are presented first in lecture and in your PowerPoint slides. So get into the shoes of your professor. Let's say you have two hours to present all the topics you think are necessary about a certain, I don't know, let's say cardiology, pulmonology, whatever they're talking about that day. What are you gonna do first? Well, probably the ones that you think as the professor are the most important. So not always, but a lot of the times, the most important topics, the ones that you really have to know for the exam are gonna be presented first, okay? So these are the ones that you should probably study first. Definitely listen up and lecture also, whenever a professor says something like, this is important, or this will definitely be on the exam. Yeah, that should go without say, but some people don't think this is as obvious as I do. I was one of those people at some point during my education where if the professor says this is important, you circle, star, bold, and put that stuff in red text and you study that first, okay? So just put that on your absolute list of absolute must-knows, not things that you'll get to in time. If there's more time, no, this is what you study first, okay? So topics that are presented first, topics that the professor says are important, and topics that the professor either highlights or says this will be on the exam or is bolded, highlighted, put in red text or yellow text on the PowerPoint slide, those are the things you study first. Study the bigger topics, the more important topics before getting into the weeds and studying smaller topics. Oh, and I just said one more thing here. Knowing the big topics very well and not knowing some of the smaller topics at all is better than knowing a little bit about everything. Okay, I'm gonna say that again. Knowing the big topics very well, knowing the very important topics very well and not knowing some of the smaller topics at all is better than knowing a little bit about everything. Big topics, small topics important, not important. Knowing just a little bit about everything, no. You want to know the bigger topics very, very, very well. Okay? All right. And common mistake number, let's see, one, two, three, four. All right, four out of four. So the last common mistake is going to be neglecting or misusing study groups, okay? Group studying, studying with more than one person at a time, or with one other person besides yourself. So some people study very well in study groups, some do not. Personally, I found it best to study on my own at first and then study with a group one or two days before the exam, why? Well, sometimes your friends, your study groups, focused on things that you either forgot to study about or things that you just don't understand very well and hearing them explain these topics, hearing them explain these things that you may not understand very well, even if you studied, maybe your group member or one of your friends will say something about a topic in a way that will stick with you and that you'll remember the next day on the exam. I cannot tell you how many times this happened to me, how many times I either totally forgot to study a topic or I studied it but it was like, I don't know, I'm wasting my time just because I'm just not gonna get this, I don't understand this. And then sure enough, the day before the exam, I was studying with another person and they explained it in a way that just stuck with me, because they explained it in a way that maybe the PowerPoint slide or the book did not and I just, boom, I got it. Whatever it is they said, sure enough, there was a question on it on the exam and I nailed it because I listened to my friend or my study group member talk about this topic. So should that be exclusively how you study? For some people maybe, for me definitely not but should you not use study groups at all even if you prefer to study on your own? Absolutely not. You need to incorporate at least a little bit of group studying, trust me, it's necessary. So anyway, I try to incorporate at least a little bit of group studying for every exam. It's a way to share resources also. For instance, one of my group members always made quizlets and they were very good at it and sometimes they found pre-made quizlets that happen to have a lot of the information for our exams. So this person was vital to my success. Another person had a subscription to PA Easy and other person had a subscription to Rosh Review. Now these are resources that are much more important in your second year of PA school when you're kind of doing more pants review and when you're doing an invitation exam review. However, during didactic year, it's not bad to review these things once in a while, especially in a group setting, all right? So it's a way to basically split up the work, say making study guides, say you make a study guide for some topics and they make a study guide for other topics and then you kind of teach each other which is quicker. Also, it's a way to financially spread out resources. Someone gets a subscription to Rosh Review, someone gets a subscription to PA Easy and so on and so forth and that way you split resources both in terms of time studying and time making resources and also time money spent on resources like Rosh Review, PA Easy, et cetera. All right, so, and also last advantage of using a study group, it's a way to just break up the monotony. It's just a way to feel like other people are there with you, you're not alone, taking on this gargantuan task of PA school, nursing school, medical school, undergrad, especially as a science major, it's just a way to have other people there with you just even on like a personal, emotional support level, not even just studying but just like, hey, we are struggling in this together. We're in the trenches together and that's a huge advantage. So mistake number four is neglecting or misusing study groups. Okay, we're gonna move on to our next topic which is a basic sample study plan, how you should organize your study. So this is for every single class. You study differently for certain exams in certain classes but however, this is just a very basic overview of how I would go about studying for any class. So the very first thing that you need to do is to make a comprehensive list, no other information, no study points, no necessary knowledge, just literally a itemized list of topics that are going to be on the exam using the necessary resources as I mentioned earlier in the video. So you make a list of things that you need to know. Next, you need to fill in the important which are usually bolded or underlined or somebody said in class, this is going to be on the exam, this is important. You make a list or you add to your list the necessary things that you have to know about these topics. That's first, things to study first, okay? So for instance, like vancomycin red man syndrome, you know, to people who went to PA school and medical school, that's like tied together in your brain forever and ever and ever and ever because we saw the PowerPoint slide in pharmacology, vancomycin red man syndrome. Let me just fact check myself here real quick because it's been a while since I've been in PA school but yeah, okay, red man syndrome is an infusion related reaction peculiar to vancomycin. Anyway, so yeah, literally three years later, I still remember it because this was something that was on the PowerPoint slide in red in bold, you have to know this. So sure enough, I studied it first and sure enough, it's still in my brain to this day even though I've never infused vancomycin because I've always worked out patients. Anyway, that aside, once you've made your comprehensive list of topics to study, you need to put in the things that you absolutely have to know about each of these things. Not every topic will have them but for the ones that do, fill these in, okay? So for pharmacology, it might be a particularly dangerous side effect, a particularly dangerous interaction for clinical medicine, it might be something that's emergent or life-threatening about a particular disease and also it's very commonly going to be two diseases that are kind of similar and sometimes are easy to mistake for each other so it's gonna be the one or two things that differentiate those two diseases from each other. For instance, gout or pseudo-gout, very, very particular difference, the different kinds of crystals that cause them although the presentation is quite similar. So very, very hot tip here for pharmacology, it's usually gonna be the most dangerous and or most common side effect or interaction for clinical medicine, it's going to be usually something that's very emergent or life-threatening and or something that's gonna differentiate it from a very similar disease, okay? Those are the things that I would study first. All right, so now number three, once you've made your comprehensive list of topics that are gonna be on the exam and once you've filled in the absolutely must-know information about the topics that you have, you're going to number three, briefly summarize in one short sentence or less, preferably just a short bullet point, each pertinent fact about each topic, okay? Very, very, very short sentence or bullet point and what you may notice is I'm basically making a study guide here, okay? And then of course, number four, number four is gonna be you review this study guide as many times as you have time for. So about reviewing the study guide, I like to make my study guides with terms on the left and then the facts, the things that I have to know about these terms on the right. So I don't write it under, I write it next to. That way, you can fold over your sheet of paper and you can, or I guess in Word document or something, but you can fold it over or cover it with another sheet or a note card and quiz yourself. That is the secret to studying efficiently is you're constantly, from the very minute you start studying and even creating your study guide, you're quizzing yourself. It's active studying rather than passive studying, okay? Passive studying, you're just reading the slides over and over again. For some people that works. Active studying is you are actively, your mind is engaged the whole time, you're not just reading, you're actually trying to draw the information forward, you're quizzing yourself right away from the very moment you start even making your study guide. So when I make my study guide, I make it side by side, take that advice for what you will. So you can also use resources, you can make quizlets, on key, you can use pre-made quizlets or on key that other people have made maybe in your class or maybe from years past, be careful with these because they may not be comprehensive. It's best to make your own resources, but of course, you know, some people find success using resources that other people have made. And then once you have all your resources, you have to just put in the necessary repetitions. So studying is exactly the same as lifting weights or running or swimming, any kind of physical activity that you're training for to get better at, to get stronger at, you need lots and lots of quality repetitions, okay? How many repetitions? Everybody's different, you know? Everybody studies differently, everybody needs a certain amount of repetitions per topic to really get it down. You know, I might need five, you might need three. I might need 20, you might need 10. You might need 100, I might need 400. I don't know, the point is you gotta get your reps in. And one thing that's very important is if you feel like you're getting bored with a topic like God, I've heard this so many times, I should stop studying it, no. That means you need to repeat it a few more times so you can get every single detail 100% and get that A plus on the exam, okay? This is especially applicable if you're an undergrad and just failing is, or sorry, not just passing is not enough, but you actually have to have as close to 100% as possible because GPA matters. You know, in PA school and medical school, GPA matters less. It still matters, but it matters less. So anyway, the point is the last part of this Reviewing Your Study Guide is just putting in the necessary repetitions. One caveat to that is for some topics, some people might say, you know, I'm a visual learner, okay? For some topics, you kind of have to be a visual learner no matter who you are. So for things such as biochemical pathways, you know, step one, step two, step three, if it's step three B, it's X, Y and Z, you know? You're going down the list of a biochemical pathway or in things that require visualization like anatomy and physiology, you have to know where certain nerves are in relation to other nerves, muscles, X, Y and Z. You know, you have to be able to physically just visualize things inside your brain. So for things like that, there are certain concepts and certain topics that are just by nature, by design, more visual. So things like biochemical pathways, things like anatomy, you either have to draw these things out, write them out yourself and or, excuse me, use what I call our blank out diagrams. Now, what is a blank out diagram? A blank out diagram is where you either have the anatomy or the pathway, you have it laid out the whole thing or part of it and you have certain terms, certain parts that you have to know, blanked out for you to fill in yourself, you know, using active learning. And so for a certain pathway, it might be good to have multiple versions of this with certain ones blanked out and certain ones showing. So you can eventually, by studying all of these blank out diagrams, know the entire pathway after you've studied all the different pieces and parts. Now, a lot of times your professors will provide these. If they don't, they're very easy to make. You know, you could just kind of blank them out with a marker or you can use preview for Mac, paint for Windows, you could just use photos on your iPhone and just put like a rectangle over whatever term it is. Blank out diagrams are excellent for learning visual concepts. For me personally, I learned best on a whiteboard by just drawing these pathways out over and over and over again. But, you know, everybody's different. So the point is you need, need, need repetitions. Think of it that way. You're getting the necessary repetitions in. You're not just reading, you're actively quizzing yourself the entire time you're studying, using these blank out diagrams, using the study tools that I mentioned previously. Quizzing yourself will give you a lot more bang for your buck. You get a lot more learning per minute of studying if you're doing active studying, okay? Now, we've discussed common mistakes. We've discussed this basic study template, how I go about studying for every single class. And now, the last section of this video is things that you can do today in order to improve and ensure success in whatever program you happen to be in, okay? So, what is your to-do list of things to do today? And so, this will be most powerful if you haven't even started your program yet. Let's say you're starting in a week and a few weeks, you know, next semester, whatever it may be. It'll be best if you could start this way before you even start the program. If you happen to already be in the program, you're already in the middle of the semester, it's still totally helpful, okay? So, what is it you do? Here's what you do, your to-do list today to improve and ensure success. The very first thing you have to do is make a list of all of your classes, you know, write it down, Google Doc, physically, whatever. You make a list of all of your classes in this current or upcoming semester. Then what you do is you speak with at least one, preferably two or more students who have already taken the classes and have succeeded. So, for instance, a couple of examples. If you're an undergrad, talk to people who already took the class, you know, last semester or two semesters ago, last year, whatever, upper classman, same classman, doesn't matter. Someone who took the class already, and this is the key word, and did well. If someone got a C or barely passed the class, don't talk to that person, okay? They could still be a good friend of yours, but don't talk to them for this particular purpose. You wanna find at least one person, preferably more than one person, who succeeded in that class already, okay? So an undergrad, probably an upper classman, or somebody of the same major who already took the class. In PA school, medical school, or nursing school, talk to your mentor who's already been assigned to you. Talk to people who are student tutors who have obviously done well. Talk to somebody you know in the previous cohort or even two cohorts ago who did very well in that particular class. Now, what are you gonna ask this person? What you're gonna ask this person is what I mentioned previously at the beginning of the video, and that is where does the professor get their information for the questions for this exam? For instance, I'm gonna give you a few different examples, okay? If I was your mentor, this is what I would tell you. All right, so example number one. One of my A&P professors only got the information from PowerPoints. That's it. There were book chapters assigned. There was a lot of stuff set in class. However, what my mentor found was that this particular professor only makes questions from the PowerPoints. So essentially, if you study everything that's in the PowerPoints, you're good. Move on. Don't waste your time reading the chapters. Pay attention in class if you really need to or if the professor requires it. But this could be a class that you don't really have to pay attention to very much in class because you already know that all the necessary information is going to be in the PowerPoint slides. So ask this upperclassman or whoever that you know already succeeded in the class that you're currently taking or signing up for, ask them exactly where the information lies that you really need to study and maybe ask a follow-on question and ask what are things that I really do not need to waste my time studying such as. The book, is this a class where I really have to pay attention in lecture or should I just pretend I'm paying attention? X, Y, and Z. Ask them exactly how to succeed in this class, okay? Okay. Example number two. A different professor for A&P that I had and we had a different one first semester, different one second semester. And this is an example I already brought up. So some of the information for this person's exams came from the PowerPoints but a lot of it came from this word document that was just buried in our blackboard folder for the class that she sometimes mentioned, sometimes didn't but she never explicitly said, hey, if you wanna succeed in my class you really need to study this word document. She never really emphasized that. So some of the class knew it, some of the class didn't. I by sheer dumb luck discovered this thing randomly just searching through blackboard and once I started studying it, I realized, oh my God, a lot of the information for the exams is in this blackboard document. And so that's something that I would tell MNT if I had one, how to succeed in this particular professor's class, definitely make sure you study this particular document, okay? So that's just something that you should know where the information for your exams is coming from. Example number three. One of my professors had very, very, very long detailed PowerPoints, but also this professor loved to go off on tangents during class and also loved to email us additional PowerPoint slides last minute, like sometimes even the day before, sometimes even I swear to God, even the day of the exam and said, you know, the topics and these additional PowerPoint slides are gonna be on the exam, which was, ugh, I don't know, cruel and unusual. Let's just say that for what it is. But however, it's one kind of little trick that you could say if this professor is interrupting your studying at midnight to send you eight slides and say these are important, maybe prioritize studying those extra slides because the professor literally took time out of their own evening to send you extra slides. So probably they think this is important, okay? And a lot of times, you know, I neglected to study those slides and was like, you know, this is last minute stuff that they're adding, I'm just not even gonna worry about it. And of course, sure enough, that stuff ended up on the exam, okay? So in this particular class, this professor had very long detailed PowerPoints. They also set a lot of things during lecture that did not end up on the PowerPoints and they also used PowerPoint slides that they added last minute and stuff from all those different sources ended up on the exam. So if I was mentoring somebody how to succeed in that class, I would say one, this is one class that you absolutely have to pay attention in. There's that. Two, take seriously the last minute PowerPoint slides that the professor adds and also, yeah, basically study every slide. You're gonna hate your life in this class, but it's just gonna be one of your harder ones, okay? Anyway, so that's what I would say for that class. And then last but not least, what do we got here? Oh yeah, my last example is, actually I'm not gonna say the name of the class, let's scratch that. One of my professor's exams mostly came from the PowerPoints which were actually pretty limited and I also found that a lot of the material came from the book. So when I was studying for this exam, I studied basically exclusively from the PowerPoints and noticed that I would get a B sometimes a C. So in a pinch, I would start with only the topics on the PowerPoint. However, if I wanted a guaranteed B or even an A, I realized I had to study the book chapters that were assigned, but the book chapters were very, very, very, very, very long. So what I ended up doing was I would only study the figures and the lists that were kind of set aside in the book. I wouldn't read every word, I would start with like the tables and the figures and the lists. So if you must read the book, that's what I would start with. And then if you have time, of course, you can go read more and get more detail. However, I would start with just the figures if you're reading the book, okay? So basically what I did in order to study for this class was I would start with the PowerPoints once I had that down, then I would go into the book and study topics from the figures that were not already in the PowerPoints. And if I really had a lot of time, then I would read more of the chapter, but I usually didn't. I did not pay attention in class at all. This was like a three-hour class. And what I ended up doing was just spending that class time pretending to pay attention while I was making PowerPoint slides or while I was making study guides out of the PowerPoint slides and also possibly the book, okay? So use your class time wisely, ask your mentor, ask whoever you're talking to who had done well in the class before. If this is a class you have to pay attention in. If it is not officially, yeah, you should pay attention unofficially. Maybe consider using some of that class time to just make the best use of your time and make your study guides while you're actually kind of sitting in class, okay? Okay, that's all I'm gonna say for that one. Uh, let's see here. Oh, and last on my list of things that you absolutely have to do today in order to ensure success, if you haven't already done so is, talk to your friends, talk to your family, talk to your boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife, tell them that the next few months, however long you are in this program are going to be selfish. They're gonna be selfish for you to invest in your future. You won't be around much because school is gonna be your first, second, third and fourth priority. And your physical and mental health are gonna be your fifth priority. Those are your only priorities while you're in school. That's the only way you're gonna get through this. So doing the math, 80% of your focus, of your mental energy, of your waking hours are going to focus on school. 20% of your mental energy, of your waking hours, of your time are gonna be focused on your mental and physical health, which means 20, 30 minutes in the gym, even if it's just walking on the treadmill, I don't care, get in the gym, do something active, meditate, eat good food, watch a movie, play some music, whatever it is for your mental health that you need, that is a priority. So again, 80% of your time, waking hours and energy is gonna be focused on school. 20% is on your health. That leaves less than 1% for everything else and I'm sorry to be so kind of like anti-social about it, but this program is hard. Things are gonna be way worse for you if you don't get through it. And the only way to get through it is to focus strictly on school and your own personal health. So just sit your family, friends, everybody down that's important to you and just make them understand this fact that as long as this program is going on, that's what your priorities and your focus have to be. All right, that's essentially it, I think, right? Oh, sorry, one more little bonus tip, okay? Now this one you may or may not get from whoever you talk to who has succeeded in the program that you're about to be in and that is find out if there are any difficult professors. Any professors that just, they like to ask gotcha questions, they like to trick you, they're kind of mean for lack of a better term. Professors that are just particularly difficult or if you've just noticed after a couple of weeks in the semester, this particular professor is specifically difficult for you as a person for whatever reason, the way they talk, the way they ask questions, the way their brain works is just difficult for you. What you're gonna do is you are going to come up to this professor after class and you're going to ask to further clarify some of the topics discussed in class today. You're gonna ask to speak with them during office hours or even right now and you're gonna do this regularly, okay? You're gonna regularly spend time with this professor that is particularly difficult for you or just particularly difficult in general. You're gonna learn this person's thought process and their learning objectives, what they really, really hope to teach the students in their class. You're gonna figure out how their mind works. You're gonna figure out how they hope that you're gonna start thinking and the things that they hope that you will know by taking their class, okay? You're gonna basically become their best friend. Suck up relentlessly, bring them coffee, spend a lot of time talking to them, figure out exactly how they think and what they hope that you will take away from their class and ask about these things regularly throughout the entire semester and I promise you if you do these things, your success in PA school and undergrad and medical school and nursing school and whatever program you may be in, your success will drastically, drastically improve if you follow these steps. All right, guys, let me know if you got anything out of this video. Let me know if you agree with me, if you disagree with me, any tips that you might have for succeeding in a difficult, rigorous program that I did not already mention, just post them below, help each other out, we're all in this together and yeah, I'll see you guys in the next video.