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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW AS A MEDICAL STUDENT IN NIGERIA

Some very important aspects regarding medical education, that all newly admitted medical students should know. 1) COMPETITION First thing you have to keep in mind is that this is not a competition with other students, you are here to become a good doctor and a better human being not to get more marks than your fellow colleagues. Honestly, it doesn’t matter who gets more marks, what matters is if you really know tahr you are here to learn what. 2) CRAMMING Not only cramming takes lot of time, but it is also not beneficial at all, e.g let’s suppose you cram all the origins and insertions of muscles of upper limb before the stage. I can guarantee, if you didn’t properly understand and visualise it before, you’ll have forgotten most of the things by the time your next stage. What you need to do is that you learn the terminology, what does the medical jargon actually means, then you understand the concepts by visualizing it. Look at Netters Atlas, see the muscle, look how it is present i