Pergatitje per Shkollen E Mjekesise!

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Do te perpiqem te perfshije sa me shume informacione dhe fakte se si te arrish te pranohesh ne universitet e mjekesise dhe te dalesh i/e suksesshem. Shpresoj te ndihmoj disa anetare si p.sh Gjalica dhe Eliona, kjo e fundit eshte shume e merakosur per testin MCAT, dhe me te drejt. Me falni per perdorimin e gjuhes se huaj, por s'kam kohe te perkthej gjithe textin, dhe nuk mendoj se do kete ndonje problem qe do perdore gjuhen angleze per arsye se keto informacione u perkasin vetem studenteve qe vazhdojn per mjekesi ne Amerike.

Para se te filloj i rekomandoj gjithe studentet qe vazhdojne ose kane nderment te studiojne per mjekesi te fillojm sa me shpejt te interesohem per kerkesat dhe testimet qe Universitet e Mjekesise kerkojne. Keto informacione po i marr nga texti: The Complete Medical School Preparation & Admissios Guide by Dr. Andrew Goliszek. Third Edition 2000.

A Self Analysis!

Before doing anything else, you need to do some serious soul-searching. Be honest with yourself when answering the following list of questions and try not to bee too hasty in your evaluation. The self-analysis you make is important when considering a career in medicine. DON'T TAKE IT LIGHTLY!

1. Why do you want to be a doctor?
2. Are you thinking about medical school beacause it's expected of you?
3. What is the most attractive aspect of medicine to you?
4. Are you going into medicine mainly for financial reasons?
5. Do you have a sense of compassion for people?
6. Are you honest with yourself, as well as with others?
7. Are you willing to work long hourse in school and continue to work long hours as a physician?
8. Are you willing to be around sick and dying people?
9. Are you ready to be make personal sacrifices in order to help others?
10. Are you an understanding person? 11. Do you have a sincere desire to put up with intolerable conditions at times for the benefit of others?
12. Are you basically calm and have a reassuring manner?
13. Are you a good communicator?
14. Do you get along with all kinds of people?
15. What qualities do you possess which would enhance a doctor-patient relationship?

So to sum it up: A doctor should have these attributes:

1. Compassion
2. Sincerity
3. Understanding
4. Motivation

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How to Begin!

First, always to be sure about the information you are acquiring, talk, NOT to a general school advisor, But to a medical advisor.

Also, look up the medical universities, especially the ones that interest you, and see what their are looking for.

Medical School Education.

"In general, the time needed to complete the requirements for an M.D. degree is four years. Usually all the schools have the same requirement, it may include some varieties such as electives, etc, but the basics are the same."

"Regardless of the time allotted to coursework and the differences in academic systems, the nature of the curricula is basically the same. During the first two years, there's a focus on the basic sciences. Courses include: Anatomy, Biochemestry, Genetics, Physiology, Pharmacology, Histology, Embryology and Behavioral Science. "

"Whatever the approach, the aim of the aim of the curriculum is to prepare the medical student for the final two you years of clinical medicine, which emphasize the application of sciene to the solution of clincial problems."

Dr. Goliszek goes ahead and gives us an idea of how much overloades medical students are: " To give you an idea of how much information is given to students during medical school, some students I've talked to form study groups in wich one student attends lectures and takes notes, another does the outside readings, and still another organizes study notes and does other academic requriments."

If these students were not in a group their probably would not be able te finish all their work.

"Mecial school can be a very difficult time for students who lack the desire and motivation to work hard and don't have the necessary attribure to cope with a medical shcool curriculum. According to studies, an individual must have five qualities in order to ensure success in medical school." (Dr. Andrew Goliszek, 2000).

1. Strong Motivation
2. Ability to pursue problems in great depth
3. A capacity for sustained scholarships
4. A capacity to thing logically and reason clearly
5. A persistent sense of pressure to wonder and seek answers to problems.

"Having these qualities doesn't necesseraly mean that an idnividual will get through medical shcool with flying colors."


Clinical Clerkships.

"Usually, the last two years of medical curriculum consist of many clinical clerkships in which students participate in patient care settings." Also, try to get interships.

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The High Shcool Years.

Reccommended Science Courses:

1. Biology
2. Physics
3. Chemistry
4. Advanced Mathematics



Reccommended Non- Science Courses:

1. Writing (There is a lot of writing in the MCAT TEST)
2. Humanities
3. Languages ( It helps you everywhere when you know more than one languages) Thank God we Albanians do

Also, is important that you choose the right college:

Think about financial aid, about what their acquire, how they look at SAT scores and other test taking, how strong are they on the field your applying?

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Study, Learning & Test Taking Skills.

"Some students are "naturals" at study. They catch on, learn quickly and remember facts easily. Some don't do as well because of many problems."

"Successful students "behave" in certain ways that ensure success. They have the right attitude, they're motivated, they paty attention, they're more relaxed, and they ignore distractions that interfere with learning."

"Studies have identified four areas that will help an individual become better all around student."

1. Paying Attention.
2. Learning and Remembering.
3. Studying.
4. Test- Taking.

Developing and Improving Learning and Study Skills.

Information -> Information is Organized -> Information is Input into the Brain -> Information is Processed -> Information is Reproduced.

A. Organizing Information:

The first step is improving learning skills to organize all the information given to your. You do this by note taking. Usually you write the main keys and words important to the topic.

B. Inputing Information: The Art of Studying.

The second step in improving learning skills is being able to take the material you've organized and inputting it into your brain in the most effective way possible. When you study do some planning ahead of time.

1. Find your best study time.
2. Manage your time efficiently.
3. Establish a place to study.
4. Preview any material before you actually get down to serious studying.
5. As you rewrite your notes, say the material out loud to yourself.
6. Form a study group and exchange ideas with other students.

C. Proccessing Information: Recall and Memorization.

The thirst step is improving study skills and perhaps the most important in terms of helping you prepare for exams is conditioning the brain to recall information. Conditioning your brain to repeat the material you've organized is a matter of not waiting until the last minute.

1. Make a conscious decision to remember.
2. At the end of each day, go over the material you've input that day.
3. At the end of the week, review the notes you've accumulated since the class first began.
4. Find the main idea of the topic.
5. Use flash cards you've made as often as it takes to learn things you need to memorize.
6. A week or so before the exam, beging lecturing to yourself from your notes.
7. Anticipate exam questions.
8. Discuss the information to be learned with others.
9. Use mental techniques or ticks to help your remember namesk definitions, words, etc.

D. Reproducing Information.

The final step, and the only one you ultimately workk toward, is being able to take the information you've processed and reproduce it on an exam.

1. Never study the night before the exam.
2. IF the exam includes question that will require knowledge of formulas and equations, here's a technique that works for students who freeze during those kinds of exams. As soon as you get your exam paper, turn it over and write down the formulas or equations.
3. Whatever the possible, answer the questions without looking at the alternatives.
4. Watch for restrictive words such as : only, rarely, primarily.
5. After yo ufinish the exam, go back and reread your answers.

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Mecial College Admissions Test.

The majority of medical schools require that you take the MCAT as a prerequisite for admissions. The exam is given twice a year, in April and in August throughout testing sites in the United Stated. Medical schools prefer that you take the MCAT during the spring of the year before you plan to enter.

MCAT

Section:........................# of Questions.......Time

Verbal .......................................65......... ......85 min.
Break............................................. ........................10 min.

Physical Sciences .......................77...............100 min.
Lunch Break............................................. ...............60 min.

Writing Sample ..........................2..................60 min.
Break............................................. ..........................10 min.

Biological Sciences ....................77..................100 min.


The MCAT is not like any exam you've ever taken before. It's extremely challenging, consisting of various passasges that test a student's ability to anlayze data, interpret results, and understand information presented in tables, graphs, and charts. A separe score is awareded for each of the four sections, and the scores are then sent to you and themedical schools you disigante on the application form 6-7 weeks following the test.

For the Verbal Reasoning, Physical Sciences, and Biological Sciences, the raw score (number of correct answers) is converted to a scale ranging form a low of 1 to a hight of 15. Th efinal score is a "curve" of how the entire group did on that particular test and it indicateds how much above or below average your raw test score was.

Typically, a score of 8 is the national average for each section, a score of 12 put you in the top 2 percent natinally, a 15th corresponds to the 99th percentile. The wring sample is scored from a low of 1 to a high of 6.

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Keshilla shume te mira keto! Ja dhe ca nga ana ime:

1) GPA eshte shume i rendesishem. Mesatarja me e ulet qe kerkon cdo shkolle me duket eshte 3.3. Po kjo s'do te thote se ato te pranojne me 3.4 nese ka konkurence shume te madhe. E sot, shumica e konkuruesve e kane mesataren afer 4 ose dhe 4. Mundohuni qe ne shkenca ta keni mesataren shume te larte sepse shkollat e mjekesise e masin vec mesataren e shkencave dhe te lendeve shoqerore.

2) Letrat e rekomandimit. Duhen 3 letra rekomandimi nga profesore/njerez qe ju njohin shume mire. Keto letra duhet te jene "superb" sepse imagjino sa letra sheh komisioni ne dite. Per kete, mundohuni te shkelqeni ne ca klasa qe t'i bini ne sy profesorit; beni pyetje; tregohuni te interesuar; ndoshta punoni ne laboratorin e tyre etj.etj. qe ne fund t'ju njohe mire dhe t'ju jape leter te mire. Ta dini se po s'u bere shume pershtypje s'ta japin letren shume te mire.

3) Volunteer Work. Sa me shume volunteer work, aq me mire. Dhe mundesisht ne vende te ndryshme; psh. ne spital, ne klinike, ne azil pleqsh, ne shtepi femije etj. etj.

4) Clubs. Jo night clubs por klube shoqerore ne shkolle. Mundohuni te futeni ne Honors Societies si psh AMSA, ADA, Golden Key?? etj etj (se s'me kujtohen tani.)

5) Pregatitja per MCAT. Duhet patjeter ta fillosh heret. Nje student duhet ta llogarise qe kete test ta marre vitin e trete ne prill ne menyre qe te kete mundesi ta perserise ne gusht apo dhe prillin e ardhshem nese s'dalin mire heren e pare (nga hutimi ne shumicen e rasteve). Prandaj, nga dhjetori (ne prill do marresh testin) duhet te regjistrohesh ne nje nga kurset Kaplan ose Princeton. Une do sugjeroja Princeton sepse eshte me klinik ne natyre kurse Kaplan ishte shume abstract per mua. Por une do ta kontaktoja princeton me pare se ne dhjetor ne menyre qe te paguaja per kursin por ti kerkoja te mi sillnin librat me pare. Keshtu do kisha kohe ti studioja vete njehere sepse kur shkon ne klase, profesori fluturon. Kurse kur i ke lexuar vete njehere, sa i perserit kur shkon ne klase.
Prandaj, sigurohuni qe ti keni marre Physics 1,2; Gen Chem 1,2, Bio 1,2; Cell Bio; Orgo 1,2 etj para se te futeni ne kurs.

6) Reading Comprehension. Ky eshte seksioni me i veshtire per shume studente, e sidomos per ne qe s'e kemi anglishten gjuhe te pare. Prandaj do sugjeroja qe t'ju behet huq qe cdo mengjes kur te shkoni ne librari, merrni nje reviste (jo Vogue apo People) por psh. The Financial Advisor etj etj dhe lexoni nje artikull te gjate. Pasi ta keni lexuar, mbylle revisten dhe pyet veten se c'mesove prej tij. Ju garantoj se po e bete kete me diligjence, do ju ngrihet rezultati shume ne anglisht. Por vecse duhet te jesh shume i qete dhe i fokusuar kur te lexosh.

Ok, kaq per tani. Fat te gjithe atyre qe po aplikojne. Gjalica, nese ke pyetje, email me, ok?