Vitamin Z

Medical School Podcast. Tickling your cochlea, est. 2019. Tweets by @zach_nayer and @austinwu52

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After months of hard work and mild-moderate hustle, we're super pumped to be launching a new podcast called Vitamin Z: a show about medical school and health policy with an off-beat sense of Dad humor. Check out our promo video! #MedTwitter #FOAMed #MedStudentTwitter

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@reubixxcube That’s the topic of our very first podcast episode!

https://t.co/YxsmiDQHOS

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Paging @ZDoggMD check out this medical student rap battle:

https://t.co/l6elC2r0Bi

[Zach Nayer, MD @zach_nayer]

Before the pandemic derailed our fourth year class show, my classmates and I made a medical student rap battle parody based off the original Super Hot Fire. This is the type of energy that's about to join frontline healthcare:

https://t.co/k8cJjehTyI

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Welcome to the high-yield part of YouTube

[Zach Nayer, MD @zach_nayer]

Before the pandemic derailed our fourth year class show, my classmates and I made a medical student rap battle parody based off the original Super Hot Fire. This is the type of energy that's about to join frontline healthcare:

https://t.co/k8cJjehTyI

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@freshribesh Check out our podcast! We spoke to awesome people in every major medical specialty.

[Bryan Carmody @jbcarmody]

USMLE Step 2 CS suspended till June 1... at the earliest.

https://t.co/zYHVesgBb9

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Braedon Murdoch, MS4 and incoming ophthalmology resident discusses tips and tricks for nailing the increasingly important Step 2CK exam.

Just released on Apple podcast!

[Gus Godley MD/MBA @GusGodley]

We are now starting week 2 (!!) of the student-run Medical Personnel Support group, providing childcare, grocery runs, and pet sitting @The_BMC @BUMedicine. We are still hoping for more volunteers, check out our website to request services or volunteer! https://t.co/uFZMzUEIMi

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Hello #medstudenttwitter! We are looking to expand our show and build a core team of producers, audio engineers, marketing & social media managers, and co-hosts.

Help us create a voice for med students across the country. If interested, DM/email us at [email protected]

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Tune in now on Apple podcast!

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What is it like to be a mother in medicine? Dr. Katherine Chretien @MotherinMed, hospitalist and Dean of Student Affairs at George Washington University and Kate Curley, fourth year medical student at GW discuss their personal experiences on this week's episode of Vitamin Z

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New episode on physician advocacy featuring @DrLeanaWen, Visiting Professor at @GWpublichealth and former Baltimore City Health Commissioner, out now!

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7) Lastly, there is no one recipe for success. Only listen to advice that makes sense and works for you. Best of luck 🍀

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🚨New Podcast: USMLE Step 1 🚨

After some rigorous research (see below) fourth year medical students David Strum and @zach_nayer taped an episode on how to do well on step 1. This episode is best listened to before January 2022. Here are some pearls from that conversation:

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6) Take frequent breaks, even if that means just standing up and perusing @DGlaucomflecken tweets for a couple minutes each hour.

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5) For spaced-repetition: use Anki wisely for non-conceptual topics like pharm, micro (use decks that incorporate @SketchyMedical), and weak topics. Starting huge Anki decks (20k cards) during dedicated can cause flash card burnout.

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4) The single most predictive factor of success on this exam is how many practice questions you do and answer correctly ✅ Do questions every day during dedicated, even while reviewing content. Best q-banks: UWorld > USMLE Rx > Kaplan

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3) Schedule a practice exam at your Prometric center to get familiar with the testing site and simulate test day conditions (minus intra-exam lacrimal hypersecretion and fecal incontinence)

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2) NBME practice exams and UW self assessments should be taken at regular intervals during dedicated study. In our experience, NBME practice scores are more indicative of true performance than UW self assessments (scores slightly inflated)

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1) every dedicated study schedule should be broken into three phases: content review (covering all topics of First Aid), UWorld first pass, and UWorld second pass of questions answered incorrectly (or full pass if time permits)