What I Wish I Knew Before Starting Medical School

This week, at my school, the new medical students start. I have spoken to a few of the incoming first years, and the questions seem to be the same, is it hard? is it fun? How should I study?

Here are seven things I wish I knew before starting medical school.

Here are some of my other videos:

Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:21 It's not that hard
2:37 Enjoy the journey
4:43 The amount of content is hard, not the actual content
5:31 Find a mentor
6:49 Med school is collaborative
7:57 Wellness
9:20 Patients are the best teachers
11:53 Outro

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Who am I:

[deborawotton]

So helpful and reassuring. Thank you. Starting med school this semester at age 49!

[keirra]

I'm a pre-med student and the thought of entering med school: MCAT, tests etc scare me but now I'm encouraged thanks.

[maskitmati]

I'm not even a med student but i love your aesthetic

[DrEldersAnatomyChannel]

If you're smart enough to get into medical school, you're smart enough to graduate from medical school. You got this

[vcetutorialshub]

Just got accepted into med school, I am terrified. Thank you for this :)

[poehlerity]

“the amount of content is hard, not the actual content” is something i realised along the way in pharmacy school as well… love watching your videos even though i’m not a med student!

[ronaldlnz]

I am an incoming second year medicine student, thanks for reminding me that I belong.

[JatinGarg]

Mentors has single handedly changed my life so I can definitely vouch for that. Very genuine advice Zach!

[emmanuelle]

5:15 "plan out what you want to learn". So true!
This advice resonates so loud as I do practice the same in internal audit.
Thanks again Zach for such a great content.

[milosmarojevic]

I got accepted last week. Your channel really helped and motivated me during the entrance exam preparation. I'm really excited to see what this new chapter brings.

[jonathonchio]

This is awesome and so timely! I'm starting medical school in August in US MD school. Thank you so much for the video!

Good luck to my fellow Class of 2025 classmates and applicants in this cycle and beyond! Hope to call you my fellow physician colleagues one day :)

[jamesruz]

Can we just take a moment to admire his insane growth of subs? Almost 200k. But still, the video quality, content, and presentation deserves waaaay more than 200k

[missxyz]

Admit it, even before you started medical school, someone might already warned you not to enter it, but here we are.

[sarafahmy]

My first day of med-school is in 15 days.. I was really nervous because lately I've been watching too much negativity about med school on socialmedia.. I was seriously thinking about changing my major before even starting it.. The problem is not that I don't believe in myself but I am afraid I might not have the greatest passion towards medicine. I've worked so hard in high school to get the highest grades but I was never tutored well to find my true passion.
Thanks to your videos, I am now less stressed, more excited about this new chapter, maybe med is really my passion. Thank you so much for sharing these tips. The editing is also a masterpiece! keep going ♥️

[AAA-mlds]

at this point i just use Zach's channel as both free therapy and motivation, can't find enough words to thank you :)

[UseTheSchwartz]

Incoming DO student in August, this helped a lot. Thanks man.

[notmrslayer]

Oh my god, the quality! ✨✨
Appreciate your hard work, Zach!
You motivate me so much! I am in grade 10th right now, so there's a lot of stress going on, but when I see your videos I feel that even the difficult things are possible. Thanks!

[keonroy]

I have to admit Zach is one of the most productive Youtubers I follow. Sometimes I try to emulate some of the med school YouTube channels by changing my studying techniques and keeping calm during stressful times. In the end Zach provides great advice for pre meds and med students. I love this channel.

[ayom]

You're the man, Zach. I've been following your content for a while now. I'm now entering my M1 year and I plan to continue watching your stuff. Thanks for your hard work and quality videos

[lilyminhh]

Hi everyone, I'm a highschool student who has attentiveness in medicine and science. I've just known Zach for a month but he has already been the most inspired teacher to me. I just wanna say thank you so much for your advices and incredible videos. Let's try hard for this dream, guys! 💛🇻🇳