Seven Habits of Highly Successful Medical Students

Habit 1: Learn how you learn. Then just do it. ​
             Figure out how you learn best and the most efficiently. Field of medicine requires life-long learning. As a doctor, we will need to constantly update our knowledge of our field by reviewing textbooks, reading journals, attending conferences, and discussing interesting cases with colleagues and learning from them. Thus, it is best to know you learn best early.

Habit 2: Look beyond your books. 
             Get involved in extracurricular activities, you will never know what benefits you will get, such as establishing connections with department chairs.

Habit 3: Give back. 
             Volunteer experiences are not only for getting into medical school. Medical school provides numerous opportunities for you to give back to the community. This gives you the chance to meet new people, develop and hone skills, and even better, they can go on your residency application.            

Habit 4: Be adventurous, both professionally and personally – you never know where it may lead you.
              Early exploration helps you to make your decisions - your specialty, the type of hospital environment you want to work in, the medical cultures, etc.

Habit 5: Recognize your own strengths and weaknesses. 
             Identify strengths and weaknesses. Feed your strengths and work on  your weaknesses.

Habit 6: Establish a circle of mentors.
             Some schools have formal mentoring programs, while some schools only have mentors who you can connect if you have any questions. Take advantage of these, and try to establish connects from various backgrounds and fields. These can range from senior medical students to professors and chairs. They can provide fruitful advice on perspectives and issues that you are going through as they have seen students and peers go through the ups and downs of medical school.

Habit 7: Take time for you. 
             Medical school is not everything, live the life! Finding the balance is critical for your career.


(Source: Faculty of Medicine)
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