In this series, I’m going to share with you my story of starting medical school, including the mistakes I made and how I learnt from them to go from barely scraping a pass to finishing top 10 at the end of the year.

Let me take you back to 2014. The year where the Ebola epidemic became a global health crisis, but also the year your boi opened up his A-level results sheet and saw that he was on his way to Cambridge. However, I wasn’t the happiest of bunnies.

This 5-step guide is best used for medical courses split into pre-clinical and clinical, but the general principles will still apply to all medical courses worldwide.

Here we answer some frequently asked questions about starting medical school including: “how to prepare for lectures”; “how to take notes” and “what a typical week looks like”.