As a student not too long ago, we understand your pain

Studying medicine comes with certain expectations to work very hard on your studies, including lectures, practical sessions, essays, clinical rotations and more. It can be quite overwhelming.

There is major pressure to perform in your examinations at a high level and this is no easy feat. As doctors we have to always be on top of our game; integrating our scientific and clinical learning to be able constantly meet our patient’s needs. These are essential skills that we cultivate over the course of medical school, and indeed long into our clinical careers. Yet, it is hard to do this until examinations arise and there is a huge amount of stress on us to perform.

Learning resources are intended to guide us through this process – yet our experience of learning resources when studying medicine was that they lacked the useful integration of basic science with the clinical context that would have been so useful for us. These resources were often ill-fit for purpose. Moreover, the immense differences in the forms of learning resources made it exceedingly difficult to determine what was useful and what was not. We just wanted to do well in our exams and be capable future doctors!

We believe that a lack of clear curriculum is a major problem to how students learn medicine. (And, without it, it is much harder to monitor your learning and meet your own goals.)

This is why we wrote the Crash Course series.

We wrote the Crash Course Series with you in mind

The amount of knowledge that students are supposed to learn within medical school is tremendous. Many classes will come endless material-content that you’re supposed to simply memorise. The simple problem of memorizing and retaining information is among the most difficult parts of medical school.

We really want to tackle this. Each of our volumes gives clear direction, summarising topics with the exams clearly in focus. We did not simply write an encyclopaedia of every detailed aspect of each topic, but a clean and structured resource that you can easily refer to and work out of.

We made this resource something that will be useful throughout future career; incorporating the clinical picture throughout.

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