After my presentation today, I went to the toilet and wept like a childā¦
Despite all the preparations, reading, countless hours it was not even regarded as average, according to them I did absolute rubbish.
I donāt even know what to do anymore, itās like the harder I try in this program, Im constantly reminded that itās not even average, itās below average infact itās rubbishā¦
I knew postgraduate was hard but nothing prepared me for how hard it actually isā¦
If you are not mentally strong donāt bother coming for residency, i cant Ehen believe it was even worse than this,
I just feel broken and humiliatedā¦.
Imagine 31 year old me, weeping like a child in a locked toilet, that what it has now come to because I want to be a Surgeonā¦.
This WAEC glitch has significantly affected thousands of children.
They should release the answer scripts for students to review and challenge them.
If nothing is done by the end of this week, we will have to take the matter to court.
The pain for students has been unbearable.
Hillside University was honoured to welcome the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) accreditation team for the accreditation exercise of our Nursing Science programme.
The visit reflects our commitment to quality nursing education and the training of competent,
Nobody talks about the 10th time you explain something to yourself before it finally clicks. That moment isnāt failure,itās exactly how learning works. Keep goingā¦.
In 18 months,
Iāve written the 3 hardest exams of my life
Final year exams
USMLE Steps 1 and 2
Now I can say that Iām 2nd best graduating student in med school with honours and a step 2 result of 275 all these while being a pathology tutor and throwing parties with my friendsš
Do you know that overreading is a thing?
Many of you have probably heard this saying before:
"No knowledge is a waste."
In medical school, knowledge can actually be a waste.
Yes, I said it.
You can spend hours reading the wrong things, walk into the examination hall, and realize that many of the things you studied didn't even show the slightest trace of themselves in the exam.
Meanwhile, the things you didn't study as deeply,the things you underread ended up appearing over and over again.
At that point, the knowledge you spent so much time acquiring became a waste.
Not because the knowledge itself was useless, but because it didn't help you in that examination hall.
It didn't improve your score.
It didn't move your future forward.
So, at that moment, it became wasted effort.
That is why you need to understand something.
There is overreading, and there is underreading.
Your job is to avoid both.
Never overread.
Study in a guided way.
Think about your books philosophically.
What actually matters?
What doesn't?
Does this textbook matter?
Or does it not matter?
For example, in my own school,I don't know about yours this is how it works.
For Gross Anatomy, textbooks matter.
You read your textbooks because you need a solid conceptual understanding of Gross Anatomy to answer examination questions.
During dissection, however, you make use of manuals.
You also study your atlas because of the diagrams and structures.
Each resource has its own purpose.
For Histology, the lecture slides are usually enough.
In fact, almost nobody carries a Histology textbook around here.
For Biochemistry and Physiology, the lecture slides are also usually enough.
Sometimes they even explain the material better than the textbooks.
So, what am I trying to tell you?
If you begin to study without guidanceāwithout knowing what is actually important, what your lecturer emphasizes, and what the examination is likely to focus onāyou will eventually experience the effects of overreading.
You'll spend your limited time and limited energy studying things that don't contribute much to your examination performance.
And that's a mistake.
Medical school doesn't give you unlimited time.
It doesn't give you unlimited energy either.
So you must channel those limited resources toward the things that actually matter.
That is why I disagree with the statement that "no knowledge is a waste."
Medical school teaches you something different.
Some knowledge, at least in the context of preparing for an examination, can become wasted effort if you acquire it at the expense of what actually mattered.
Learn this lesson early.
Avoid overreading.