Interview Season is over at my program

For those of you that I met during your interview trails good luck. Remember when you rank, listen to no one but yourself. Rank where you will be happy to go, where you feel best suits your needs for whatever reason, because in the end you will have to deal with the place you pick, and not the person giving you advise.

Note: the season is over at my program but it might still be going on in other places.

2018 reading list: 5th book in the bag

Finished my 5th book. OOO yeaa.

Book 5: Speed Reading: The Comprehensive Guide To Speed Reading - Increase Your Reading Speed By 300% In Less Than 24 Hours : This is about the 4th book that I've read on reading. All the books have been different. This book dished out the usual techniques to speed read that the other ones expose but in addition to that it also gives ways to solidify and maintain your reading speed. I increased my reading speed to the upper 400wpm, but I never solidified it and I'm back hovering around high 200s and early 300's. My goal is to reach 600 wpm. Anyways back to the book, I thought it did a good job explaining how you can chip away at increasing your speed overall and making it a life long change.

One more book until I've finished my reading goals for the year, one more book till 6 books.

On another note my vacation is almost over. My vacation came at a good time
, it's almost over and its almost time to get back to the grind. Its back to work next week monday. For my last book I'm going to finish the Dubins EKG book.

2018 Reading list: 4th book in the bag

Finished reading my fourth book 2 days ago, monday. 2 more books and I am done with with my reading goal for 2018. Yes. This doesn't mean thats all I will read; I will read a few more.

book:
book 4: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right hook - by Gary Vaynerchauk: this is a book about marketing on social media. Good book. I give it 4/5 stars. It talks about the kind of material to post and how to post them.

Hmmmm... which book to read next?

2018 Reading list: 3 books in the bag

I loove love love books. I love to read. But problem is time, where is the time to read. With busy residency I come home exhausted and too tired to pick up a book. Of course some months are better than others. I'm currently on a two weeks staycation - vacation spent at home and in my city- and I'm enjoying just relaxing. Up till now I've read 3 books two for fun and one to work on a skill.

1) The House of God by Samuel Shed: This details the ordeals of a intern in a hospital called the House of God. Its true depiction of life as an intern, sharing not only what happens to the interns, how they react to it, but also how they feel emotionally and physically. After 6 months in my intern year I can say there are quite a few things that I saw happened to me as well. I did not agree with some of the protagonists -the authors- conclusions. Still its a great book if you want to get an insight as to how Intern year is.
2) Speed Reading: How to double (or triple) your reading speed in just 1 hour!  by Justin Hamond: This book was a quick read. I always wanted to improve my reading speed. I thought the book was short and to the point. While I do not think my reading speed improved in 1 hour I think I with practicing the tips in the book will rev up my reading speed.
3) Pimp, the story of my life - by Iceberg Slim: I first heard about this book while watching a Dave Chapelle skit. An ex pimp looks back on his life and gives vivid details of the horrific things he did to others or that were done him. It reads like a movie. At the end of this book I question whether these events really happened because some of these things seemed so inordinate, or extraordinary or outlandish.


I have already read 3 of the 6 books that I plan on reading this year.

The year 2017 in review and plans/goals for 2018

1/8/2018

FINALLY A BREAK. Today is the first day of my very first vacation in Residency. Its been 6 months of growth and managing patients. I started residency in 7/1/17 and it has been go go go. I haven’t had the time to sit down and analyze what I will be doing, what my plans will be for this new year, and what look at what I accomplished last year. I’m going to take a look at my resolutions from last year and see how things panned out. Dun dun dun dun dun.

“In 2017, my goal is to match into a good residency program, to give a speech in front of a high school students, make more youtube videos, compete in the World championship of public speaking, and give you readers more value by blogging about the standardized exams that Medical students and Residents face.”

The year 2016 in review and plans for 2017

I did match into a great residency program! Yay! I did compete in the world championship of public speaking however I did not make it to the finally stages. I blogged decently until I started residency and it happened far and in between. Out of the minimum of 13 books that I was supposed to read – because I read about 3 books and am literally past the half way point of 3 other books. As for giving a speech in front of large crowds that has not happened yet.

This year I will carry over the things that I was not able to accomplish plus add a few more. For the things I was not able to accomplish I will set the bar a little lower so that I can accomplish them. The idea being so long as I can get the ball rolling and stay consistent I will more likely to follow through. This way of thinking has served me well through out my years. Enough rambling…

My goals for this year are

      1 )      HIT 400’s in the ITE exam. I got a 370 and that was with no studying.

      2)     Read 6 books. I tried to read more than a book a year, however, that didn’t pan out in 2017 because of my busy schedule. 6 books a year is not too bad and it will be more than the 3 books I read last year.

      3)      Volunteer work. I want to volunteer. I did look for different sites where I can volunteer maybe in a soup kitchen but all these places required you to fill out all these forms. I put it off till next tiem and the next time never came. I will try to get on it this time.

      4)      Giving speeches to the youth. I would like to motivate and inspire young minds, to held set them up for a successful life in regards economics/finances/attaining their goals. I’m still trying to figure out how I will get this accomplished

      5)      Blog at between 6 -12 x this year. This bar is really low. Looool. It’ll definitely be cathartic but hopefully serve some value to whoever reads this.
      6) Buy an apartment

Will review again in 3 months – March.