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Lorna

How To Cope during Exam Season

Exam season can be stressful, overwhelming and tiring. It is likely that you are putting pressure on yourself because you want to achieve high grades and have specific requirements to meet for university. To reduce exam anxiety, think about how you are going to revise, structure your revision timetable and

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Medical Application Support and Resources
Lorna

How To Avoid Loneliness Applying To Med School

You might never have embarked on a pathway where achieving that goal – a medical school place – is so much dependent on your personal drive; I felt really daunted at the start of year 12, thinking that I would never actually get to go to medical school. It can be especially isolating if very few people, or no-one else from your school, is applying to study medicine. I felt lucky to have two other people in my year going through the same process, yet even then, we weren’t applying to the same medical schools.

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Academic Support and Resources
Lorna

How To Survive Your First Year At University

Even if you’re not a diehard fan, most aspiring medical students have heard of the Emmy winning medical drama, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’. In the very first episode Dr Miranda Bailey gives her five interns (including the infamous Meredith Grey!) five rules to survive their internship, which is roughly equivalent to FY1.

Following in that vein (pardon the pun!), here’s five of my ‘rules’ for surviving and thriving in your first term of uni!

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Wellbeing
Lorna

The Meaning of Work Life Fit

What is a work-life balance?  Image reference: https://dadbloguk.com/dads-work-life-balance/ Firstly, I want to challenge the notion that it is a ‘balance’, and propose that a better term may be ‘work/life/family/friends/health fit’. Can you ever truly balance something that is inherently fluid and constantly changing? Will ‘work’ and ‘life’ ever truly be equally

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Wellbeing
webo21

Overcommitment

Hi I’m Anusha and I’m Matthew and we are your wellbeing officers on the VMS Student Committee. Approximately every fortnight we will be posting blogs up about different topics related to mental health and wellbeing as well as discussing some in the weekly Virtual Medical Society meetings. We know that applying to medical school/dental

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Wellbeing
webo21

Resilience

We’ll be exploring what resilience is and how we can show it. We’ve heard about it and most of us have shown it at some point in our school careers, but do we really know what it means? Well, the Oxford English Dictionary defines resilience as “the capacity to recover

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Wellbeing
webo21

Coping with A-level and Higher Stress

Hands up if A-levels are easy? Said no-one, ever. Having gone through the whole year 12 experience, we understand that this can be incredibly stressful. But it doesn’t have to be. Our top tips: 1. Know when to ask for help– whether it be a friend, teacher or any of the

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