UnwaveringMed

 ITI is interactive team based instruction where you are paired with a facilitator immediately after lectures to discuss stop points. These can be in the form of questions or open ended statements. It is a resource to help you succeed if you are identified as someone that could use extra help after exam scores are released. At first I thought it was something negative and I hated the fact I was being asked to join. It was offered to me after the first exam and I declined entry because my mindset was I didn’t have these problems in term 1 so why should I join. After I received my exam score for the 2nd exam I knew I had to change things. Continuing to do the same thing and expect different results is insanity. Honestly, it turns out that joining ITI is what helped saved me from myself. Mindset is everything. Although I didn’t get the same outcome from every session, overall it is completely worth it in my opinion to reinforce the material. I hope this helps anyone finding themselves...

 This term was truly a RIDE. While there were many wins, there were also many losses as well. I did not do well on the first 3 exams for this term. I was advised to take a credit remediation to repeat Term 2 in April. I didn't even give it a 2nd thought. At that point in time my grade was above passing but barely. However, I knew that I was more than capable and it was a matter of me getting out of my own way. I met with a learning strategist regularly, someone who had recently graduated so they had been in my shoes once before. They advised me to do a MCQ session with them where I would answer questions that were relevant to the current material and they could try to figure out what my problem was as to why I wasn't scoring as well as I would have liked. Based on that meeting, I was told "Your problem is not knowledge gaps. It's clear that you are studying the right way and know what you are supposed to. Your problem is lack of confidence. You answered every single qu...

 And just like that---Year 1 of medical school has come to an end officially!!! This term was trying in every way possible. I had no choice but to rely on God to carry me through. The volume was coming and I was still trying to understand things from previous weeks. I had to make a choice on whether I was going to feed my fears or trust God. Once I got out of my own way with all my doubts, I really began to excel even more than I had last term. It's very easy to be discouraged when an exam doesn't go the way you anticipated. One bad exam never defined anyone and it never will. I have so much knowledge now and nobody can take that away from me. I saw grades that I have not seen this whole year with these last 4 back to back exams that we had. Nobody but God!!!  We had to take the BSCE 1 which is the comprehensive exam over the whole YEAR. I had no idea how I was going to retain information for it but my strategy was to just take a little at a time when I had a chance. It paid o...