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Who am I to tell me who I am?🙂

[Enyinnaya @enyinna_]

If she’s smart and interesting, I’ll spend. If she isn’t, I’ll still spend. If she wants luxury dates, I’ll spend. If she’s okay with coffee, I’ll still spend. If she doesn’t have money, I’ll spend. If she’s making her own money, I’ll still spend. She should want me.

[Mind Over Weakness @mindoverweaknes]

Dark texts that girls, always reply to

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[EPIC MASCULINE @EpicMasculine7]

Stop asking her childish questions…

These questions will expose who she really is 🧵

[Simp Police🚨 @SimpPolice911]

When you call a girl, make sure you do it while walking. OGs know why this is important. Calling her while walking will:

[Padiki @kikiEwool]

I hope everyone that was on about how the President’s directive was not adhered to watches this video.
No one was turned away. Patients were sent to other facilities.

[Dr.kelvin 🇬🇧 🇰🇪 @BecomingKm]

Dentists have a fascinatingly complex relationship with the title "Doctor." They go to an entirely separate school, learn an entirely separate curriculum, and graduate to work in a glorified office park, yet they will defend their medical status with the ferocity of a cornered badger like Gachagua.

​If you want to see a dentist's heart rate spike, ask them an organic chemistry question or bring up a systemic medical issue that occurs below the collarbone. The moment a patient in their chair mentions having a history of cardiac murmurs or being on blood thinners, the dentist's eyes dilate, the drill stops, and they immediately write a panicked referral letter that essentially says: "Please tell me if I can clean this person's teeth without causing a catastrophic event." They want the prestige of the medical fraternity, but the absolute second a patient exhibits a symptom that can’t be solved with an X-ray and a shot of lidocaine, they remember they are, fundamentally, oral architects.

These ones really figured life in medicine.

[Dr Prosper The Philosopher @ProsperThePhilo]

Understand this early in medical school:

The examinations do not reward your knowledge.

They reward your ability to retrieve knowledge.

That distinction sounds small, but it changes everything.

Medical school is not interested in whether you can eventually arrive at the answer after thinking about it for five minutes. Medical school rewards whether you can produce that answer immediately, under pressure, when the clock is running.

Look at how examinations are structured.

You are given an MCQ question and expected to identify the correct answer almost immediately.

You sit for a viva and a lecturer asks you a question. Every second you spend hesitating, rambling, or trying to remember is a second in which your performance is dropping.

You walk into a spotter examination and see a structure, a specimen, a diagram, or a slide. You are given 60 to 90 seconds to identify it and write what is required. The examiner does not want to know that you could eventually figure it out after ten minutes. They expect you to see it, recognize it instantly, and respond.

That is the reality of medical school.

The examinations are not designed to reward possession of knowledge.

They are designed to reward rapid retrieval of knowledge.

This is where many students make a critical mistake.

They know a lot.

In fact, some students know far more than their grades suggest.

The problem is that they cannot produce that knowledge quickly under pressure.

Ask them a question and they begin to stare at the ceiling.

They start searching through their memory.

They start circling around the answer.

Eventually, they may arrive at it.

But that delay is exactly what hurts them in examinations.

The goal is not simply to know.

The goal is to know so well that retrieval becomes automatic.

If you need thirty seconds of mental searching before arriving at a basic answer, then you have not yet mastered the information at the level medical school demands.

Now, before we even begin discussing study methods, you need to understand the situation you are dealing with.

The first reality is volume.

Medical school is enormous.

Anatomy alone is massive.

In fact, one thing I have learned is that you should be suspicious of every summary and every compressed text.

Because every summary is incomplete.

Every truly detailed anatomy textbook is huge.

The reason is simple: the subject itself is huge.

The same thing applies to physiology.

The same thing applies to biochemistry.

The volume is not an illusion. It is real.

The second reality is specificity.

Medical school expects precision.

You are not expected to know broad ideas alone.

You are expected to know specific structures, specific pathways, specific branches, specific enzymes, specific functions, specific exceptions, and specific relationships.

A vague understanding is rarely enough.

The third reality is depth.

You are expected to understand concepts deeply enough to explain them, discuss them, apply them clinically, and write about them in essays and professional examinations.

So when students ask me about study methods, I always feel the need to clarify something.

I talk about flashcards.

I talk about past questions.

I talk about mind maps.

I talk about AI.

I talk about audio overviews.

I talk about several tools.

But people often misunderstand what I mean.

They think success comes from using every technique available.

That is one of the fastest ways to fail.

The student trying to use ten different study systems at the same time is usually more scattered than the student using only three systems properly.

You do not need every technique.

You need a few techniques that solve the right problems.

That is the difference.

When you look carefully, medical school really demands four major things from you.

First, you must acquire knowledge.

Second, you must be able to recall that knowledge instantly under pressure.

Third, you must know specific details with precision.

[Dr Prosper The Philosopher @ProsperThePhilo]

Can your system help you recall instantly?

Can your system help you master specific details?

Can your system help you understand examination mechanics?

If the answer is yes, then you are already on the right path.

The student using three techniques consistently for these purposes will usually outperform the student using ten techniques inconsistently.

Medical school is already difficult enough.

Do not make it harder by turning studying into a collection hobby.

Choose a few effective methods.

Master them.

Use them consistently.

And let those methods serve the objectives that medical school actually rewards.

[Real Ferd @ferd_real]

@ProsperThePhilo great content bro💯

[Dr Prosper The Philosopher @ProsperThePhilo]

Go do something else.

Come back later.

And continue reading.

No drama.

No motivational speeches.

No forcing themselves.

Just consistency.

What other students saw as work had become normal life to them.

And what they deliberately scheduled were the things other students considered leisure.

That was probably the most striking thing I learned from studying their experiences.

I felt like sharing it because it changed the way I think about studying.

The journey toward distinction continues.

And hopefully one day, I will come back and tell you about my own distinction story.

[SALTPOND TIGERWOOD @Arthurockgh]

Wahalahi say they are untouchable. If you are angry at them go and treat yourselves, las las ebi we the bottom feeders naa go suffer not Stormzy et al
Nonsense, look at the Hospitals and ask yourself if it is development, instead of yall to pressure government to see the urgency and build more hospitals you are saying rubbish

[Real Ferd @ferd_real]

@Arthurockgh you see o

[SALTPOND TIGERWOOD @Arthurockgh]

This is very untrue bossu, e issue isn't whether the Minister is a doctor or not. The issue is his approach. constant public reprimands, hardline responses and "I order you" style of leadership are exactly why we're here.

Healthcare no be some place where you just bark orders and expect problems to disappear. Structures have to exist before directives can work. If people think his actions show a gap in understanding how the ministry and the health system operate, then that criticism is justified.
Even ordinary citizens should be mad at that cos he has been shit with his approach

[Summie's write @RuthSummie]

How many have you read?

Buchi Emecheta – Second Class Citizen
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Yejide Kilanko – Daughters Who Walk This Path
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hibiscus
Ayobami Adebayo – Stay With Me
Ukamaka Olisakwe – Ogadinma
Aiwanose Odafen – Tomorrow I Become a Woman
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe – The Son of the House
Lola Shoneyin – The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
Sefi Atta – Everything Good Will Come
Chika Unigwe – On Black Sisters Street
Buchi Emecheta – The Joys of Motherhood
Nnedi Okorafor – Who Fears Death
Sefi Atta – Swallow
Lesley Nneka Arimah – What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Chinelo Okparanta – Under the Udala Trees
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani – I Do Not Come to You by Chance
Chika Unigwe – The Middle Daughter
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun
Yejide Kilanko – A Good Name

[Mastery Mindset @_masterymindset]

He literally explained How To Hold A Conversation With Women.

[Linda @alexanderlinda_]

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[Meistermind @mistameister]

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[Linda @alexanderlinda_]

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[Linda @alexanderlinda_]

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[BehindTheKnife @BehindTheKnife]

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