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Can Med School Tutoring Help? 

Yes! Learning with a medical tutor is a great way to give you confidence, catch up and reinforce your knowledge. Having the support of someone who is meeting with you weekly to provide you with a personalised approach and educating you in a way that is tailored to your challenges, concerns and virtues is invaluable.

A medical tutor could help you not just to study medicine, to memorise and pass the test, but med school tutoring might give you a more precious tool: learning how to learn, devising a method just for you so you can learn better.

Here is a list of techniques you and your tutor can start introducing, incorporating, reinforcing, checking and assimilating:

Designing a study plan: organising your studies is the key to learning. You can make a calendar where the day, important dates and schedules are marked.

Studying in a practical way: doing exercises and questionnaires. Solving clinical case studies (problems and practical activities), using drawings to represent ideas.

Using mnemonic devices: it consists of creating keywords and mental images to associate them with a specific concept or idea. These can be very useful for memorising, and show the great plasticity of our brain.

Taking it as a challenge: always try to surpass yourself by assuming it as a challenge to be won.

Don't forget breaks: researchers at Harvard and Kent recommend spacing out study sessions of the same subject just when we feel we start to forget it.

Taking notes by hand: the pomodoro technique, devised by the Italian Francesco Cirillo, consists of working for 20-25 minutes without distractions and then taking 5-minute breaks.

If you apply these techniques with the help of your medical tutor, they will facilitate the study especially of the most dense subjects of the medical school such as anatomy, physiology and others.

You can also include live videos of medical procedures as a tool. You and your medical tutor can go through them discussing them and seeing what is important, what to remember and what to understand from them.

Having the support of someone who, in a one-on-one meeting, is showing you the ropes of how to learn more efficiently and more specifically you can be a great moral support and the key to succeeding in med school.

Visit Superprof and no matter where you find yourself in New Zealand, find local medical tutors ready to guide you, help you in your struggle and cheer you on in order to conquer your goals.

The Challenges of Studying Medicine

The study of medicine presents a series of difficulties. Let's remember that science subjects generally require more time to understand and study.

One of the most frequent reasons why students abandon their careers is that they are saturated and overwhelmed with too much information.

This is a vicious circle because as the students are trying to assimilate and understand the information they are processing, they are introduced to knowledge. Now they need to catch up and that creates a spinning wheel that does not stop.

Medicine, therefore, is one of the most demanding careers.

But one way to counteract that study setting that is so damaging and counterproductive is starting med school tutoring.

Today it is very easy to receive support through courses or classes via webcam. When time is limited you can always just hop on your computer and start a lesson with your medical tutor.

If you are in New Zealand, no matter what city you find yourself in, you can visit Superprof, type down the subject you need help with and your location and a long list of teachers will be provided to you. Most teachers offer their first class for free, you can schedule it the day that suits you best.

Each teacher has an ad that will give you all the information you need to make the best decision. 

Finding med school tutoring has never been easier. Visit Superprof and find the best medical tutor for you.