HOW TO USE STRATEGY AND MINDSET TO UNLOCK STEP 1 SUCCESS

This Learning Strategist Who Went From College Failure to Nursing School Superstar  Shares Her Methodology

Did you know that you can learn how to learn, Ambitious IMG? This week on the IMG Residency Match Podcast, Learning Strategist and Brilliance Coach, Clarissa Guillen, is going to tell you how—especially as it concerns your USMLE Step 1. 

We’re talking about how you can mindset work and strategic studying to improve your Step 1 performance. 

Clarissa has a powerful personal story: She went from being considered brilliant in her inner city high school to failing out of seven courses by the time she was a college junior. Subsequently, her academic advisor told her she would never make it in the medical field because she wasn’t smart enough.

At first, it seemed like her advisor was right and Clarissa did not have the skills to succeed. She graduated college with a 2.7 GPA, couldn’t apply to medical school, and got rejected from an accelerated nursing program. 

Clarissa was deflated; however, her boyfriend at the time—now her husband—encouraged her to pick herself up. So Clarissa spent an entire summer researching, learning, and testing myriad study skills and consistently applying the ones that worked. The result? She got accepted into nursing school with a 3.72 GPA and graduated with Honors. 

While working as a Registered Nurse, Clarissa founded an academic coaching company, She Rocks @ College. She has worked with over 300 students ranging from junior college to professional schools to help them to: 

- Crush their courses

- Improve their confidence 

- Create a balanced life (including study-free weekends) 

- Tune in if you want to learn:

- What exactly it means to work on your mindset

- How to use the syllabus to excel in any exam

- How to excel in your USMLE Step 1 exam

- Why focusing on the content Step 1 tests is the wrong approach

- What to do if you have failed Step 1 and are going to resit it

Resources mentioned in this episode included in the show notes at www.memorableessay.com/podcast/s1ep11     

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