Medical
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Exam Week Execution Plan: From Final Review to Test-Day Performance
By: Lynda Malcolm, JD, MD Exam week is looming. Notes are marked up, practice questions worked through, and the big exam is now just over a week away. You’ve already put in the hard yards. This final stretch is where many students lose their edge. It’s not because they don’t know the material, but because…
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Struggling with Anatomy? 8 Concepts That Make Anatomy Click
Anatomy is often seen as a subject you simply need to memorize with hundreds of names for bones, muscles, and nerve pathways. But anatomy is really a language, a common systematic way of describing the human body so that clinicians, students, and researchers can communicate clearly from anywhere in the world. In this post, we’re…
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The 80/20 Rule in Medical School: Focusing on High-Yield Tasks
By: Lynda Malcolm, JD, MD Med school throws an impossible volume of material at you. It all feels important. Success comes from realizing what matters and what doesn’t. The students who crush medical school aren’t the ones suffering through late nights and endless study. They’re the ones who have figured out that only a small…
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Interview with a Medical Student: How StudyFinder AI changed the way I study
Oliver Ma, Medical Student – Australia What are StudyFinder AI learning modes? StudyFinder AI offers several different learning modes to suit your needs at different stages of training. Set your training level between pre-clinical, clinical, or both! Example Prompt using StudyFinder AI Explore an example prompt using StudyFinder AI to explain types of stroke all…
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Webinar: Boost Productivity with AI You Can Trust!
Study Smarter with StudyFinder AI – a new AI-powered tool in Clinical Key Student Presenters Shiran Juttla and Dr. Isabel “Izzy” Candir explain how StudyFinder AI addresses your biggest challenges, by providing a single, trusted platform to find curated educational content from Elsevier’s extensive library. With StudyFinder AI, you can: enabling you to find what…
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Webinar – The Art of Failing: How to Fail Well
Presenter Dr. Maria Ahmad explores the psychological and professional impact of failure, particularly within the demanding field of healthcare. The session reframes the concept of failure as an inevitable and valuable “setback”—a crucial component of learning, growth, and long-term success. Session Highlights Four Key Shifts in Perspective: 1. Self-Worth vs. Mistakes: Drawing on Carol Dweck’s…
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Must-Have Books for Medical Students after Year 1
As a first year medical student your goal was understanding the basics: medical terminology, anatomy, and physiology. Now, as a returning medical student the focus is preparing for clinical practice and exams, we know the right book can save you hours of confusion. Here are books worth checking out chosen to specifically support challenges during…
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Surviving the Transition: Real Talk for Incoming Medical & Nursing Students
By: Lynda Malcolm, MD, JD Somewhere in your first few weeks, there’ll be a moment when you start to doubt yourself. Everyone around you seems so confident and prepared while you are a bundle of nerves. You’ll begin questioning whether you belong here. Newsflash—you do. The truth is everyone has doubts. Here’s what the brochures…
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The guide every health science student should read before using AI again
If you study medicine, nursing, or any health profession, you already use artificial intelligence. The question is no longer whether you use it, but how . And that’s precisely where “Learning in the Age of AI: A Practical Guide for Health Sciences Students ,” by Dr. Javier Flores Cohaila, comes in, now available completely free for download on our HUB. This is not…
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Every Clinician has Faced Failure. What Matters is How They Responded.
Online Session The Art of Failing: How to Fail Well Thursday, September 17th 6pm UK | 1pm US ET 🔗 Register Here The thought of failure fills us with dread – whether failing an exam, not getting a job we wanted, or making an incorrect diagnosis. And because we talk about failure so rarely, we…