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Podcast title Medical School Podcast
Website URL http://medical-mastermind-comm...
Description The Medical School Podcast has two major purposes: 1) to publish Mastermind Group recordings of experts in various medical education fields, and 2) to prevent physician burnout by teaching wellness in medical education from the peer-reviewed, scientific literature. Doctor Dan recruits the listener into an active role in order to increase awareness about medically underserved populations, sources of stress in medical students and residents, and efforts to remedy the imbalances.
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Episodes

1. What are your chances of matching to a U.S. Medical Residency?
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Description: Episode 35: Learn the your chance of matching based on your background: allopathic, osteopathic, Caribbean, International Medical Graduates. No opinions here – only data released by the NRMP, AOA, and ACGME about the match rates of residency applicants. Watch the entire video podcast here… Here’s an overview the match rates for medical school graduates from all backgrounds: [...]

2. Who is your competition for the NRMP Match?
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Description: Episode 34: Did you know that 23% of physicians in the United States graduated from foreign medical schools? Furthermore, over half of the increase in residency applicants contributing to increased competition in the last 18 years are coming from outside the U.S. Learn all about the NRMP Applicant Pool in this video podcast. Watch the entire [...]

3. The MCAT Elite use Verbal Virtuoso!
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Description: Episode 33: Doctor Dan interviews Tanvir Kabir from the MCAT Elite course and Verbal Virtuoso, both successful programs guaranteed to raise your MCAT score.  Hear his insider techniques that he uses to teach these successful programs. Plus be entertained by his gauntlet challenge to other MCAT teachers! Listen to the podcast here… Tanvir Kabir put off his [...]

4. Princeton Review Test-Taking Skills
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Description: Episode 31: Princeton Review author Chris Manuel explains how to approach tests DURING the exam. He has written content for Princeton Review MCAT and developed 2 in-house Prep Courses, called Ultimate MCAT and Holiday Hell. Listen to the podcast here… Chris Manuel has taught 1,800 students and now trains MCAT teachers at the Princeton Review. He [...]

5. Renal Physiology USMLE Step 1 MP3’s for Members Only
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Description: What do you think of these new USMLE Podcasts? Doctor Dan teaches pathophysiology and physiologic responses of the kidney to various disease states, including primary aldosteronism, DKA, SIADH and diabetes insipidus as examples. Listen to the podcast here… Renal Physiology A. ECF/ICF ECF (1/3) = extracellular fluid of two compartments – vascular (1/3) and interstitial (2/3) ICF (2/3) = intracellular fluid [...]

6. Study Techniques DURING Your Exam
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Description: Episode 30: Learn study techniques to use DURING an exam. This is a nice adjunct to the CD of the Month Club’s Comprehensive Study Techniques, because that CD focuses on techniques to manage a semester or test cycle – not really a single exam! Listen to the 16 minute podcast here… When the test starts: Start your exam [...]

7. Spirituality In Medicine
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Description: Episode 29: Learn how to help your patients’ healing by acknowledging their spiritual beliefs, staying emotionally vulnerable, and even being open to a spiritual journey of your own. Listen to the podcast here… In the last podcast, we discussed the contrast between out perfectionist, type-A personality and the objective information overload that exists in medical education. Internally, we’re [...]

8. Perfectionism versus the Imposter Phenomenon
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Description: Episode 28: I’ve heard of perfectionism, but is the Imposter Phenomenon like being abducted by aliens? No, most medical students do it early in the first year of medical school and Pre-Meds usually live that way! Listen to the podcast here… If a physician is honest with herself, she will have to admit that sometimes medicine isn’t [...]

9. Anatomy of a Bad Residency Program
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Description: Episode 27: In this episode, Doctor Dan pours out his heart in order to save heartache for hundreds of medical residents and students every year. This passionate topic is very controversial, so he uses statistics and the scientific method to make an argument for the existence of malignant residencies. Listen to the 12 minute podcast here… Every [...]

10. MedFools.com – more than just scut sheets!
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Description: Episode 26: Dr. Dan interviews Dr. Ken Lin from MedFools.com. This is a great Mastermind community Spirit because he helped students coming up behind him all the way from medical school and even now as a practicing physician. Listen to the 30 minute podcast here… Dr. Ken Lin has been devoting countless hours to helping students through [...]

11. NRMP – ERAS Residency Match and Scramble Course
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Description: In this unscheduled episode, Doctor Dan outlines his entire 12-part video series detailing everything you need to know about getting a medical residency in the United States. Learn all about match statistics, Caribbean versus International Medical Graduate comparisons, and USMLE competition. There’s simply too much to describe in words. Listen to this podcast here… It took me [...]

12. Medical School Exams
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Description: Episode 25: There’s nothing like block exams, with 2-4 weeks straight of tests. How do you cope? Learn where to get real exam questions to use for practice so that you can adjust your study techniques ahead of time and predict how well you’ll do on the real exam. Listen to the 23 minute podcast here… Medical [...]

13. You Asked, I Answered
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Description: Episode 24: The Medical-Mastermind-Community.com survey results are in! In this episode, Doctor Dan answers listener questions and directs you to resources that will further help you in your medical education journey. Do you have a question for Doctor Dan? If so, please submit your questions on the new “Request Topics” link, below in the show [...]

14. Time-Sensitive Announcements
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Description: 3rd Annual Medical School LIFE Conference will be May 29-30, 2010. The first one was a weekend series for the American Medical Student Association chapter at the University of Houston. Out of those conferences, the Pre-Med DVD Course was build as a sort of basic training. The following year charter members of the Medical Mastermind [...]

15. How I learned To Study For Medical School
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Description: Episode 23: Doctor Dan gives away secrets about his preparation for medical school, integration of speed reading techniques, and his major tenant of goal setting for EACH reading session. These show notes also reveal key insights into discovering your own, innate learning style. Listen to this 33 minute podcast here… Where did you get your tricks, Doctor [...]

16. Medical Mastermind Groups
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Description: Episode 22: Experience the instant refreshment of sharing your everyday experience with peers – of all levels of training! You can have a scientific literature presentation on any topic you choose. Doctor Dan explains the concept of these groups and how he’s merged another genre into what he now calls the Medical Mastermind Group. Listen to [...]

17. 20+ USMLE / COMLEX Books Online – for the price of 1
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Description: Episode 21: What USMLE book should you buy? How about all of them! In this interview with Kiran Bellubbi, I unveil a new collaboration project for the USMLE and COMLEX. You can now get online access to multiple publishers’ titles for less than the cost of one book!! Listen to this 30 minute podcast here… The United [...]

18. How To Study Medicine
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Description: Episode 20: Learn your innate learning style, 14 study techniques, 6 types of material you encounter in medical school and premed courses, 5-Step Study Method, and a cheat sheet that integrates all of these tools into one printable checklist to staple to the front of your notes for a particular test. Listen to the 39 minute [...]

19. Tutoring On The Internet: grad students rule!
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Description: Episode 19: Ever wish you had the T.A. in your pocket? Well, now you can. In this interview with Liam Martin, we discuss a revolutionary new tutoring program for Pre-Med prerequisites that is completely over the internet and telephone. Now you can have a grad student coaching you on study techniques, high yield facts, and [...]

20. Physician Work-Life Balance: Phase 5 is reemerging priorities
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Description: Episode 18: Dr. Dan explains how you can avoid being among the majority of physicians dissatisfied in their work. By looking at the literature and physician surveys you can avoid mistakes that thousands of doctors are making in their career decisions and goals. Listen to the 33 minute podcast here… This podcast is all about Reemerging Priorities, [...]

21. Malignant Residency Programs
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Description: Episode 17: Discover the best-kept secrets of Interview Day. Here Dr. Dan explains what things to keep in mind when choosing a medical school and residency – by learning what the scientific literature says our challenges are. Listen to the 48 minute podcast here… From disappointment with yourself, peers and program directors to the U.S. health care [...]

22. How To Survive Medical School
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Description: Episode 16: Learn the research that shows what it takes to separate successful medical students from those who fail. This is Phase 3 (Assimilati0n) in the Evolution of  a Physician In Training, part of Dr. Dan’s Physician Wellness Initiative. Do you pass the test? Listen to the 17 minute podcast here… No amount of preparation is going [...]

23. Adapting To The Overwhelm: Med School Life 101
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Description: Episode 15: Drinking water from a fire hydrant? Learn what the scientific literature says about the medical school experience. Everyone gets overwhelmed, but what separates those that are successful from those who fail? Listen to this 37 minute podcast as Dr. Dan outlines this important phase in the development of the future physician. The first semester of [...]

24. Don’t Wait To Be Happy
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Description: Episode 14: Are you a perpetual people pleaser? Did it start as a Pre-Med? Dr. Dan reviews a recent article published by The New Physician in which the reasons for premed student unhappiness are exposed. “Basically, you just need to do what makes you happy – and stop worrying about what some admissions committee is [...]

25. Writing Essays For Your Application
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Description: Episode 13: Learn the 10 steps to creating a clear, compelling essay for your application to residency or medical school. There are 5 things that you MUST do and 5 things you must NEVER do. Do you know what they are? Why is the personal essay the most important thing to start with after you’ve gotten [...]

26. Speed Reading for Medical School
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Description: Episode 12: In my experience, EVERYONE wants to know how to learn faster, remember more, and have time left over to spend with their families and social interests. Learn how Doctor Dan does all three by integrating the best Study Techniques into a Medical School Speed Reading Course. Please LOGIN or REGISTER to read the rest [...]

27. The MCAT Myth – quit reinventing the wheel
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Description: Episode 11: Doctor Dan explains how your undergraduate professors may be off base when it comes to how to prepare for the MCAT. The MCAT Myth says that volume, not problem-solving, is more important for the MCAT. Watch this video to learn better. Did you know that the majority of undergraduate professors don’t fully know what [...]

28. USMLE Prep
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Description: Episode 10: Dr. Dan interviews the Chief Operating Officer of a renowned U.S. Medical Licensing Exam prep company and delves into why professional prep courses have become important in the last 5-10 years. What will your USMLE Step 1 score be? The United States Medical Licensing Exam is equivocal to a final exam for all of [...]

29. Surviving the Third Year of Medical School
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Description: Episode 9: Learn the factors that reduce stress in clinical rotations. Taken from Dr. Haglund’s paper from 2009, Dr. Dan discusses the implications of their findings in an effort to better prepare medical students for the challenges that lie ahead. Are you surprised to learn that 80% of medical students experienced personal mistreatment, discrimination and verbal [...]

30. Stress in Medical School and Residency
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Description: Episode 8: Are you a stressed out resident? What about a medical student or Pre-Med that wants a leg up on what your about to get in to? Well, Dr. Dan discusses the first peer-reviewed article on medial education: Sources of Stress for Residents and Recommendations for Programs to Assist Them. Let’s face it, if becoming [...]

31. MCAT Test Techniques
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Description: Episode 7: Learn how to use AAMC (real) MCAT tests to adjust your study techniques in this double-doctor interview! Dr. Dan and Dr. Ferdinand, both physicians, provide invaluable insight into how to think like physicians when taking exams! Good luck trying to find that anywhere else… In this episode, Doctor Ferdinand and Doctor Dan outline the [...]

32. Doctor Dan
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Description: Episode 6: Doctor Dan explains how you can access medical school exams, medical student notes, and the very notes that he wrote as a pre-med student, getting him A’s in all of the medical school prerequisites! Also, there is a multi-media home study DVD course can be included with your Medical Mastermind Community membership. Who is [...]

33. MCAT Practice Tests
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Description: Episode 5: Dr. Ferdinand and Dr. Dan join forces again to discuss the purists mindset for approaching the MCAT and USMLE. Also discussed are the strengths and weaknesses of the official AAMC’s full-length practice tests with explanations. You know you want to know your MCAT or USMLE score in advance! We all want to grade our [...]

34. Test Anxiety – Expert Interview
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Description: Episode 4: Learn how to calm yourself, listen to internal cues, and think positively during an exam. Only a few weeks of practice can have you mentally prepared when you use the techniques discussed here by renowned test anxiety expert Bara Sapir. How do you know if you are TOO nervous for an exam? Do you [...]

35. Medical School Admissions – Interview with a committee insider
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Description: Episode 3: Dr. Shelton explains what medical school admissions departments are looking for in an applicant. Learn how to overcome deficiencies in your application and become the genuine article – a premedical student that really DOES have what it takes! Dr. Wayne Shelton works for www.AdmissionsConsultants.com now, but spent 10 years on the admissions committee for [...]

36. MCAT Verbal Reasoning – Interview with Test Prep New York
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Description: Episode 2: Learn how to approach the MCAT from a totally different perspective. Interview with neurolinguistic programming expert Karen van Hook and test anxiety expert, and founder of Test Prep New York, Bara sapir. No two people read the same MCAT passage exactly the same. Listen in as these to Verbal Reasoning experts tell us how [...]

37. MCAT Prep – Interview with Dr. Ferdinand and Dr. Dan
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Description: Episode 1: MCAT Prep like you’ve never heard before. Dr. Ferdinand and Dr. Dan discuss the MCAT from a physician’s point of view. With both doctors actively coaching premedical students, their synergy on this subject is nothing short of a Mastermind! Dr. Ferdinand’s tells us about his not-so-secret performance on the MCAT and about his fatal [...]