May 15Time Habits of a Medical Student, MS3My goal for the summer leading up to when I started medical school in 2020 was to become more proficient with computer programming and data analysis. I was accustomed to tracking my billable hours for a previous job and decided to track and visualize how I use my time as…Medical School3 min readMedical School3 min read
Apr 25, 2022Studying Efficiently in Medical SchoolI recently finished up my pre-clerkship years of medical school. As I reflected on the last two years and my experience in working as a tutor both before and during medical school, I noted some habits that I found effective at maximizing my efficiency. …Medical School4 min readMedical School4 min read
Apr 12, 2022Time Habits of a Medical Student, MS21,953 hours of learning in MS2 means 3,916 hours of learning as a medical student. The background for the project is here. Compare to MS1 My second year of medical school was broken up into 5 separate blocks. HHD1 - HHD3 made up the fall term, while HHD4 …Python3 min readPython3 min read
Jun 28, 2021Time Habits of a Medical Student, MS11963 hours later and I have successfully finished my first year of medical school. As has been tradition after finals week. I took some time to generate charts quantifying how I used my time. The background for the project is here. I spent the most time dedicated towards medical school…4 min read4 min read
Apr 30, 2021Time Habits of a Medical Student, MS1 Spring Term“Track” again with some med school time tracking for the spring semester of my first year. Background here. Legend is in the figure below.Medical School4 min readMedical School4 min read
Mar 19, 2021Medical Residencies in One PlaceI was having a difficult time trying to visualize what the path to residency looks like for each specialty. All of the information is freely available online, but I was unable to find a concise diagram that had all of the information in one place. I used LucidChart to make the below image. This list is not exhaustive but gives a very good overview of how each residency fits in with one another. Here is a viewable link to the CSV data I used and here is a link to an editable link to the CSV data.Medicine1 min readMedicine1 min read
Mar 5, 2021Time Habits of a Medical Student, MS1 Spring MidtermI’m back with statistics again **Steven Tyler voice**. I have been using Jupyter Notebooks, Google Sheets, and Google Forms to track my journey through medical school. So far during the spring term, I have logged 450 hours of medical school-related time. With 9 weeks leading up to the midterm, that…Jupyter Notebook6 min readJupyter Notebook6 min read
Dec 11, 2020Time Habits of a Medical Student, MS1 Fall TermMy first term hitting the books is almost in the books! Since beginning medical school this (2020) fall, I have been tracking how I use my time as a means of assessing my productivity and to document my journey. You can read more about that here. In the first 8…Medicine4 min readMedicine4 min read
Oct 16, 2020Time Habits of a First-year Medical Student, Fall MidtermIt is official, I have made it through my first round of midterms as a medical student! Well, almost. I technically have one more exam to complete later this afternoon, but I have made a habit since undergrad of refusing to study past the point that I feel comfortable with…Medicine5 min readMedicine5 min read
Jul 2, 2020Realistically, Can You Take on More Work?As a wise person with the same birthday as myself and who shares 50% of their DNA with me once said, “You never get asked to do less in medical school”. I think the same principle holds true for many other graduate programs and in some careers as well. The…Productivity2 min readProductivity2 min read
