1% each day
Success is a few simple disciplines, practised every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day” Jim Rohn The idea of ‘1% each day’ reflects the Swahili saying ‘Haba na haba hujaza kibaba’ – meaning…
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Foundations of Wellness: A Scientific Guide to Self-Care
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining John F. Kennedy As we approach the end of another long year which is 2023, one cannot help but reminisce that it has been one that threw us…
The Support System, A Student’s Perspective
“Get a support system or else this course is going to drag you through the mud.” These are the words said by my Professor during my first Biochemistry lecture in medical school. To tell the truth, the atmosphere was tense…
Open minds, Open access: The importance of FOAM
Medical education has a heafty price tag on it making it unattainable to passionate clinicians and students, especially in developing countries. Traditionally, the framework would be to read expensive books and cutting-edge journals, and attend conferences in order to stay…
Treatment: PO Glucose 50g PRN, and a friend
Nothing can really HONESTLY prepare you for the workload of med school. At least, nothing had prepared me. Not the YouTube videos, not the high school alumni that came and spoke to us, not even my sister that was in…
How To Fail: A Starting Point
I performed dismally at the beginning of my third year of medical school. This came as no surprise because writing those exams was one of the most challenging tasks of my life, I had an overwhelming sense of impending failure…
The Dunning-Kruger effect: Why it’s normal to feel unprepared for an exam
“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know” Albert Einstein Safia, Wepukhulu, and Karimi have an upcoming anatomy exam. Safia, who has been struggling with the material, has low confidence in her ability to perform…