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Get Into Medicine

The Get into Medicine Conference is a complete guide to the medical application journey. Students get essential insights into the medical UCAS application process (such as the NEW personal statement structure), connect with professionals, fellow students, and gain a deeper understanding of a future career in medicine.   During the

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Ash

Get Into Medicine

The Get into Medicine Conference is a complete guide to the medical application journey. Students get essential insights into the medical UCAS application process (such as the NEW personal statement structure), connect with professionals, fellow students, and gain a deeper understanding of a future career in medicine.   During the

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Ash

Get Into Medicine

The Get into Medicine Conference is a complete guide to the medical application journey. Students get essential insights into the medical UCAS application process (such as the NEW personal statement structure), connect with professionals, fellow students, and gain a deeper understanding of a future career in medicine.   During the

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Lorna

Active Revision Techniques & Effective Study Methods

Most students rely on passive study methods particularly when they first start learning how to revise. This is because these techniques such as making pretty notes and highlighting revision guides feel like an easier method.

A balanced approach that combines both passive and active techniques can be highly effective. Let’s explore some active study strategies you can consider…

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Lorna

What Is The Pomodoro Technique?

Since pomodoro involves smaller, more manageable tasks it makes it easier to start and complete. You are less likely to feel overwhelmed by how much you have to do and instead can do it in parts in each of the 25 minutes. This a technique used to help focus on studies and it helps you do more effective work. By placing a time limit for you work, it helps you make as much progress as possible within the given time.

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Ash

Get Into Medicine

The Get into Medicine Conference is a complete guide to the medical application journey. Students get essential insights into the medical UCAS application process (such as the NEW personal statement structure), connect with professionals, fellow students, and gain a deeper understanding of a future career in medicine.   During the

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Academic Support and Resources
Lorna

Reflection: Areeba’s 1st Semester of University

Reflection is a crucial process in medical education and practice, providing healthcare professionals with a means of learning from their experiences and improving their skills and knowledge. Reflection is defined as “a process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe, analyse, evaluate and so inform learning about practice”

If there was one word I could use to describe my first semester at university it would definitely be busy. Amongst the academia involved in studying medicine, I have thrown myself into a multitude of diverse experiences ranging from society events to joining the university badminton team. I have enjoyed every bit of university so far and am looking forward to my second semester.

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Ash

Get Into Medicine

The Get into Medicine Conference is a complete guide to the medical application journey. Students get essential insights into the medical UCAS application process (such as the NEW personal statement structure), connect with professionals, fellow students, and gain a deeper understanding of a future career in medicine.   During the

Read More »
Ash

Get Into Medicine

The Get into Medicine Conference is a complete guide to the medical application journey. Students get essential insights into the medical UCAS application process (such as the NEW personal statement structure), connect with professionals, fellow students, and gain a deeper understanding of a future career in medicine.   During the

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Medical Application Support and Resources
Lorna

Professional Growth Experience & Reflection

Reflection is a process of analysing an experience and evaluating one’s actions during the event or considering the effect the event may have had on the individual. It is critical in improving medical practice as it enables clinicians to learn from mistakes, advance their skills and assess their personal wellbeing. Since reflection enables improvement, it is an integral feature of lifelong learning, a key component of a career in Medicine. It also improves the ‘quality of care for patients’ (MDU 2022) and in this way can aid the doctor-patient relationship. Without reflection, mistakes may reoccur or ‘remain disjointed and worthless’ (Artioli 2021) since changes to improve systems will not be implemented.

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