How STATMed Learning Helped One Doctor with ADHD Thrive in Her Medical Career This is a must must must for anyone with ADHD or any other learning difference or if you’re just not a great standardized test taker. I can honestly say I wouldn’t be a doctor today if it were not for StatMed. …
Study for Med School and Prep for the Boards With the STATMed Podcast
The STATMed Podcast is now the newest in the Inside the Boards family of podcasts!
4 Podcast Episodes for Managing the Challenges of ADHD in Med School
In this miniseries, Ryan Orwig examines how ADHD can impact medical students and professionals including ways ADHD can affect the ability to study, take tests effectively, and manage time.
Is Your Approach to Board Exam Questions the Problem?
The way you read board exam questions may be killing your test scores. We break down ways to read these questions to optimize your approach.
Retrain The Way You Approach Standardized Questions With STATMed Learning
“This program doesn’t offer a bandaid solution but one that allows you to understand your mistakes and helps you re-train the way you approach standardized test questions.”
From Metacognition to Motivation – A Deeper Look into Why Smart Students Can Struggle in Med School
We dig into some of the reasons smart students may be failing med school In part 1 and part 2 of this blog post we examined the many different variables impacting student learning and success. Years of study by educational researchers have clearly determined that a student’s ability to succeed is not exclusively related to …
Why Am I Failing Med School?
Working with learning specialists is a great way to develop strong learning and productivity skills and operationalize evidence-based learning approaches like retrieval practice and interleaving. This can go a long way in mitigating many of the adverse effects of these academic systems factors.
I’m Failing Med School — and I Don’t Know Why!
“Often, struggling students may have little or no control over these factors, and they may need to develop skills and approaches to learning that compensate for them.”
Bad Test-Takers Use Partial True vs. Partial False Testing
Imagine you had a friend who came to you in great excitement and told you, “I just had the best date! This person is funny, smart, attractive, a great listener, there’s just one thing… when we were walking down the sidewalk after dinner they saw a puppy and went out of their way to kick it.”
“I have the skills to effectively manage the crazy life of a med student”
How the STATMed Study Skills Class Changed the Game for one Struggling Med Student “Prior to medical school, I never had to work hard for good grades. I never developed proper study habits or coping mechanisms, and that led to failing my first year, the first time I failed anything. After the STATMed Class I …