Hey guys! This weeks video is just a time-lapse of some studying I did one day this week. I’ve been studying in my dad’s office, so I’ve been WAY more productive, and in this video I managed to study for about 4 hours in a row! I spent some free time catching up on work from our previous blocks in medical school that I’m not too comfortable with yet Hope you enjoy it!
Hey guys! This video is a revision of calcium and phosphate regulation, and the different mechanisms that try to maintain homeostasis. It is a common topic that you will cover quite a lot on your medical school journey – first whilst you are preparing for WAPT, but also again throughout the Wits GEMP years (for instance in your renal block in GEMP 1, your MSK block in GEMP 2, and also your endocrine block in GEMP 2)! As mentioned, if you are trying to get in to the Wits Graduate Entry Medical Program and are looking for some help, please follow the AMP’d4theWAPT social media accounts by using the following links:
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This week I wanted to talk about feeling overwhelmed with med school work and dealing with self-doubt and the so-called impostor syndrome
Here’s a topic that I get asked about quite often, and some points of view on how I stay motivated
Hope you enjoy it!
These are strange and scary times indeed! Everywhere we look, every social media account, every Instagram post, every news article is centered on one thing and one thing only – Coronavirus. The impact that it is having across the world is mind-boggling to see, and the stories of the effects (and after-effects) it is having on a global scale is sometimes difficult to comprehend in its scope.
I would like to open this blog post up to anyone who reads –
I would love to know your story and how this has affected you and your family? Where in the world are you? How is your country handling the pandemic? How has it affected you personally? What are your daily lives like at the moment? What are your circumstances? What are you most worried about? What has been the hardest thing for you to deal with at this stage? How do you foresee the coming weeks and months?
Feel free to write as much as you’d like! Who knows – maybe we can gain hope or perspective from the life you’re living right now!
It’s the one great thing about the internet – it allows us to connect with people across the world and to hear and share their stories. I’ve certainly shared many of mine over the last couple years, and would love to know yours now!
Keep safe!
Wade
This is something that has been requested quite a bit on the YouTube channel, and so I finally sat down and did a video on how I study in medical school. Personally, I don’t feel like it’s anything special or unique – these are just the techniques that I have found work best for me at this point in my studies. I hope you enjoy the video! It is quite long as I tried to describe how my studying progresses through each block and for exams, as well as some general tips I think could help with your own studies.
We are fast approaching our exams for our 5th block of medicine – the cardiovascular system! As such, I’ve started studying quite a bit and thought I’d do another “Study With Me” video!
It seems like it’s been ages since I sat down and wrote an actual piece for the blog! This week marked exactly 6 months since I started medical school, and it has been one hell of a crazy ride so far! I’ve had a week off now as we have just finished our 3rd block exams, and for the first time since I received my acceptance for GEMP in January I have been sitting and thinking about how much my life has changed in the space of just 6 months.
Things move so quickly that it’s easy to forget oneself, and to forget the big picture and how things are turning out. This year has gone by so fast and yet simultaneously so tiresomely slow at times with hundreds of hours spent sitting in the library over course packs, lecture notes, and text books. It feels like those 8 years of trying to get into GEMP (and the almost 16 years of wishing to become a doctor) have been erased in the blink of an eye, and the new rate of learning to become a doctor has equally become such a natural progression in my life. And that is CRAZY! It is literally my dreams coming true with every day that passes, and that was a dream that for so long seemed like an improbability! As things stand, in 3 and a half years I will be a doctor!!
It’s crazy to think that in a weeks time we will be finished our second block of medicine already! It has been an endless blur of lectures and countless hours spent studying in the library, and the ever-increasing workload seems never-ending – but it is everything I hoped for! I am honestly enjoying medical school more than I can say!
We write our second block exams this coming week, and then we’re gifted an entire week off! That little holiday is a beacon of light and a great motivator to use every remaining bit of energy we have now to study, and it will all be over in four days! Here’s a video of the past week spent preparing for these exams!
Here is a quick review of everything covered in our first block of GEMP, called Basic Concepts in Medicine and Health (BCMH1)!
My South African Medical School Journey 