Starting Med School – Life of a Medic

#AskAMedStudent: What stationery should you take to med school?

#AskAMedStudent: From reading your blogs I learnt that you cover 8 PBL cases in Manchester. What diseases/illnesses do you cover in the first and second year? Do the cases change for different years?

#AskAMedStudent: How much of A-levels do you actually need to remember for Medicine as I’m worried I’ll forget everything and that I won’t be good enough?

#AskAMedStudent: In Med School, do students usually or would you recommend study alone or in groups?

#AskAMedStudent: During lectures, what do you do? Do you add any important points to the slides then after the lectures, summarise the lectures?

#AskAMedStudent: How did you prepare for PBLs?

#AskAMedStudent: I’m a year 1 medic and I really struggle with knowing how much I need to learn for anatomy and how to study it. How did you prepare for anatomy sessions and learn it all?

#AskAMedStudent: How should I study in medical school? Do you recommend typed or hand-written notes? I’ve just finished first year at Leicester but I don’t think my note-taking has worked very well and I’m unsure how to improve it.

#AskAMedStudent: I will be starting medicine at Manchester in September. Anything you would suggest to do before starting?