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• 🎋 Kaizen, Shinrin-Yoku, Kintsugi - Clarissa Mona

  A book that covers three important concepts of Japanese culture and their relationship to change and self-improvement.

• 🛤️ Is Your 2025 On Track?

  Hi friends, and happy Sunday! 🍀 This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ Tips on maintaining balance and productivity through 2025 ✅ Resources for medical students who recently matched into residency ✅ Tools to empower you to get things done and feel fulfilled along the way ...and more! First things first though...a

• 🪨 This Task is Ruining Your Productivity

  Recently, I was listening to an emergency medicine podcast when one of the hosts threw out a term I had never heard before🎧. Si-ssa-phy-sian. I was immediately confused 😵. I knew the topic of the podcast, but was this a new medical term or condition I hadn't heard of?

• 👀 My Thoughts on Match Day 2025

  Happy Sunday friends!💘 This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ Tips and thoughts on Match Day 2025 ✅ A brand new Med School Moose partner to help med students and residents ✅ Insights into my own Match Day experience ...and more! But first, an important reminder📣: The rank order list certification deadline

• 🎥 Med School Moose YouTube Roundup

  Hi friends, it's time for a YouTube Roundup!🐎 I'll be posting these updates from time to time to highlight recent videos on my YouTube channel so you can be sure you don't miss any content!😸 My latest video was the kickoff of a brand

• 🟩 How to Start 2025 the Right Way

  Happy Sunday friends, and cheers to the first Sunday Morning Rounds of 2025! 🥂 This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ Advice for fourth-year med students creating their residency rank list ✅ Videos to help EM residents prepare for a big upcoming exam ✅ Brand new book notes ...and more! Be sure to

• 💭 Comments Are Now Turned On!

  Have you been dying to share your thoughts on one of my many articles on topics for medical students, residents, studying, or productivity?🤔 Well now you finally can!😁 Starting today, comments will be turned on for all articles on the website. My hope by enabling comments is that users like

• 👋🏻 Goodbye, Things - Fumio Sasaki

  A worthwhile read on Japanese minimalism and how to part with old, forgotten, and no longer needed items.

• 💵 The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

  A deep dive into understanding our thoughts and feelings about money, and how that can help us learn to better manage it.

• 🔭 Med School Moose 2025 Outlook

  Happy Sunday friends!🎆 For this last Sunday of 2024, I wanted to spend rounds talking about plans for the future of Med School Moose for the upcoming year🔮. Med School Moose is growing rapidly📈, and you can read all about some things we've been working on lately in

• 🗓️ Med School Moose 2024 Year in Review

  Happy Sunday friends, and greetings from England!💂🎡 I am currently on vacation in London and will soon be heading to Belgium to explore Christmas markets and eat tons of chocolate🎄🍫. Nevertheless, Sunday morning means rounding!👨🏽‍⚕️ As 2024 comes to a close, I wanted to reflect on everything Med School Moose

• 🐣 Overcoming Mental Blocks with A Beginner's Mind

  Previously, we've covered a lot of wonderful concepts like time blocking, habit stacking, and The Pareto Principle that can help boost our productivity and efficiency📈. Today, let's introduce a new concept🆕. Have you ever been working on an assignment or tackling a project, when suddenly you

• 🧬 Sunday Morning Rounds is Evolving...

  Happy Sunday friends!❄️ Today I wanted to share an important update regarding the Sunday Morning Rounds newsletter🗞️. For over a year, Sunday Morning Rounds has been a place where we've discussed study tips🧠, productivity hacks⚡, residency interview advice💼, and so much more. From everyone I've spoken

• ⭐ Resources for Residency Interview Season

  For the past several weeks, we've been diving into every aspect of residency interviews on Sunday Morning Rounds🤿. We've covered what questions to expect during the interview❓, interview mistakes to avoid🙅🏼‍♂️, some tips for virtual interviews💻, and so much more. Now it's time to

• 🛑 Don't Do This During Your Residency Interview

  Between conducting residency interviews at my home program🏠 and helping students prepare for interviews with Interview Boost👓, I've had the opportunity to speak to a lot of medical students across the country. And so far, there's one big issue I've noticed medical students doing

• 🛜 Perfecting Your Virtual Residency Interview Setup

  A couple weeks ago, we talked about tips for virtual residency interviews. At the top of that list was optimizing your space, i.e. making sure you have a high quality computer/desk setup to maximize performance for interviews🧑🏻‍💻. Today let's take a closer look at that🔎. As

• 🧠 Building A Second Brain - Tiago Forte

  A transformative guide on capturing, organizing, and accessing knowledge to boost creativity and productivity. My favorite book of 2023!

• 👹 Monsters and How to Tame Them - Kevin Hart

  A candid guide with Kevin Hart's trademark humor on how to conquer personal fears and inner obstacles.

• 🤬 The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck - Mark Manson

  A refreshingly blunt guide to prioritizing what truly matters and letting go of everything else.

• ⭕ Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

  An eye-opening look at the unexpected factors that drive extraordinary success.

• 🌈 The Creative Act - Rick Rubin

  An exploration of creativity as a way of life, with insights on how to nurture your unique artistic vision.

• 🗣️ Platform - Michael Hyatt

  A practical blueprint for building influence and reaching a wider audience in the digital age.

• 💻 Tips for Virtual Residency Interviews

  Following the Covid-19 Pandemic several years ago🦠, many residency programs started opting for virtual interviews. While some programs have gone back to primarily in-person interviews and others have adapted a hybrid model, we're bound to encounter a virtual residency invite at some point🖥️. Although virtual interviews are a

• 📢 The Most Important Part of a Residency Interview

  Over the past few weeks, we've been dissecting various parts of the residency interview process, including the best way to start a residency interview and residency interview mistakes to avoid. One thing we haven't quite discussed yet though is what I believe is the most important

• 🌍 Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

  A thrilling race against time where adventure, curiosity, and resilience intersect.

• 🙅 Residency Interview Mistakes to Avoid

  Recently, we were talking about starting our residency interview off on a high note with a good elevator speech🎶. Be sure to check out that article out if you haven't already read it! Today, let's take an opposite approach: What are some mistakes to absolutely avoid

• 💼 The Best Way to Start a Residency Interview

  As September comes to a close, residency interviews are on the horizon🌅. Last week during Sunday Morning Rounds I shared my free list of residency interview questions, which can be accessed at any time on my resources page🆓. At the very top of that list of questions to expect on

• 🤔 What Questions Will I Get During My Residency Interview?

  With residency interview season looming around the corner, medical students are starting to get (understandably) stressed😰. Lately when I've been working with students and there's downtime on shift, I try to ask if they have any questions I can answer🤔. After all, I was a medical

• 📝 Tips for Completing 2025 ERAS (Part 2)

  Happy Sunday friends!😸 We are already halfway through September, which is absolutely ridiculous😱. Last week during rounds, we talked about general tips for completing ERAS for the upcoming residency interview season. As a reminder, residency programs will be able to review applications starting on September 25th, so be sure you&

• 📝 Tips for Completing 2025 ERAS (Part 1)

  Hi friends, happy Sunday and happy September!🗓️ As fall approaches🍁, this marks the time of year when medical students and residency programs start to gear up for the residency interview season ahead of Match 2025. Med School Moose will of course be covering various topics throughout the interview season here

• ☠️ Every Patient You See is Dying.

  Happy Sunday!🌞 Last week during rounds, I discussed my takeaways from watching medical students complete away rotations in our department so far🧑🏼‍⚕️. One thing I started thinking about is that some medical students (and even some interns) have a tough time getting into the emergency medicine doctor mindset🤨. Being an

• 🚑 My EM Away Rotation Takeaways So Far

  Happy Sunday friends!😁 As we close out August, I thought this would be a good time to share some tips and takeaways regarding emergency medicine away rotations🥼. By now, many medical students who are applying to emergency medicine for residency have had at least 1 EM rotation🚨. Hopefully you'

• 📏 Solving Problems by Creating Distance

  Hello friends, happy Sunday!👋🏽 Here at Sunday Morning Rounds, we're all about solving problems🤨. In the past we've discussed various ways of doing this, such as using the five why's. But have you ever gotten so deep into a problem to the point where

• 🥼 Do's & Don'ts of Speaking with Medical Consultants

  Happy Sunday!🌅 This week on Sunday Morning Rounds, I want to talk about speaking with consultants🗣️. Speaking with consultants is something we have to do frequently in the hospital🏥. From Infectious Disease🦠 to Psychiatry🧠 to General Surgery🔪, medicine is a team sport, and a multi-disciplinary approach is necessary for complex

• 🆕 Med School Moose Updates

  Happy Sunday! Unfortunately I'm feeling a bit under the weather 🤧. So this week during Sunday Morning Rounds, I want to share some of the latest high yield content I've been working on for medical students and residents as well as an announcement about an upcoming event!

• 🌃 Tips for Surviving Overnight Shifts in the Hospital

  Happy Sunday!🌚 This past month, I've been working a lot of overnight shifts in the emergency department💤. I'll come right out and say it: I absolutely despise overnight shifts😡. Some people love them, but I am not one of those people. For better or worse, I&

• ⌚ Change Your Day in 5 Minutes - Part 2

  Happy Sunday! ✌🏽 Last week during rounds, we introduced the 5-Minute Rule for identifying which task in a to-do list will take about 5 minutes to complete📃. We discussed how the 5-minute rule can be a handy tool in our toolbox for not only getting one thing done, but potentially others

• ⌚ Change Your Day in 5 Minutes - Part 1

  Happy Sunday! 😎 Do you have 5 minutes to spare?⏳ I'm hoping the answer is yes, because this week for Sunday Morning Rounds we'll be talking about a quick tool to evaluate tasks that can entirely change the way we complete them🪛. When we have a list

• 📈 Leveling Up Efficiency with The Pareto Principle

  Happy Sunday! This week during rounds, let's talk about an idea that can elevate our productivity to a whole new level😲. Since this is the first newsletter of July, that means we're now more than halfway through 2024, which is ridiculous📆. But that also makes it

• 🔠 A Mnemonic to Elevate Your Productivity

  This week during rounds, I want to share a mnemonic📖. As we've alluded to for the past several weeks, these summer months are a very transformative time for many in medicine☀️. New interns are starting residency🩺. Some medical students are starting audition rotations on their road to residency�

• 💜 Why We Should Love Stress

  Happy Sunday! As I was thinking about what to write this week for Sunday Morning Rounds, a thought popped into my head. I talk about stress a lot.😅 Whether it's navigating medical school🩺, applying for residency📝, or actually starting a career as a physician🏥, whenever I'm

• 📈 How to Excel on Audition Rotations

  Over the past few weeks, we've been talking about the upcoming transition of medical students starting their residency🩺. That's not the only big change this time of year though. For newly minted fourth-year medical students, these summer months are the time when many start sub-internships on

• 🏁 5 Essential Tips for Month One of Residency

  Happy Sunday!🌞 Last week during rounds, we covered my pre-residency checklist and talked about all the self-care and adulting tasks to check off before starting residency✅. But what about when residency actually starts...what can we do to put ourselves in the best position to succeed?🤔 I'm so

• 🟢 The Best Way to Start Residency

  Happy Sunday! We are less than 1 month away from July 1st, aka the day new interns finally start residency🏥. If you want to make sure you're starting residency at your best, keep reading👀. It's no secret that residency is hard. If it were easy everyone

• 📝 A New Kind of Productivity List

  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…I love lists💚. There’s something about writing out tasks in my favorite planner and checking them off one-by-one that makes me feel like I'm winning the day🥇. Recently I was reading Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver

• 💔 Medicine Doesn't Love You

  The other day I was walking around town listening to a podcast🚶🏽‍♂️when I heard something that kind of messed with my head😵‍💫. "The work won't love you back." The podcast was A Slight Change of Plans by cognitive scientist Dr. Maya Shankar, and she was

• 🌞 A Better Day with Time Blocking

  This week during Sunday Morning Rounds, I have an assignment for you📝. I want you to think about a project you've been wanting to start but have been putting off for a while🤔. Perhaps it's reading that book that's been sitting on your coffee

• 🐝 USMLE Step 2 Buzzwords is Here!

  Great news this week on rounds: I've recently dropped a new video series on my YouTube channel: USMLE Step 2 CK Buzzwords! You can watch the video below⬇️ or by clicking here. Keep reading to find out how and why this new series came to bee...pun intended�

• 🐒 The Monkey Mind & The Monk Mind

  I was watching a video recently when I came across an interesting parable I had never heard before📖. The video was an interview discussing how to overcome uncertainty, and at one point the interviewer made a comparison between the monkey mind and the monk mind. The monkey mind can be

• 🍅 Balanced Studying with The Pomodoro Technique

  Raise your hand if this is you: You've been studying for several hours straight, and after a while you find yourself feeling exhausted and burnt out✋🏻. Or how about the opposite scenario: You've just started studying and decide to take a quick break, only to find