From a Constellation to a Constellation

  CMH Medical College Lahore Dramatics Society . This article is a bit different from what you’ve been reading on this space. It’s about my experience with CMH Dramatics Society. My name is Shanzay Bilal, I’m in BDS final year and I’m the current president of this society. University life is all about making memories and for me a lot of them were made around my friends from the Dramatics Society! The way it began . A big part of my school life revolved around being in co-curricular activities. Those are the times embedded deep in my memory. My most fond memory is hosting our school’s annual night when I was in grade 1. Sounds funny now that I think about it but that’s how it began! From then on I’ve been a part of narrations, school plays, debates etc. The Balancing Act . Joining med-school was such a challenge but after coming to CMH balancing my studies and passions was my goal. I registered myself for the dramatics society in the very first month when I heard about weekly dr...

  I’m Tabeer Taseer from Batch of 18’.  Quick bio - Year of graduation: 2019, Finished house job end of may 2020. Started studying mid July, didn’t kick off until I finally got a flight back home in September.  Total study time: 13 months (I wrote this for reddit so this will be a relatively long post, to the point nonetheless. Jump to headings for each phase/ assessment scores) Part of it is cathartic on my end as a way to close the door on my step1 journey and if it can help other students along the way that would be a nice way for me to pay it forward since I benefited tremendously from exam write ups. I'm going to explain my thought process, decisions I made along the way as I prepared. General Advice: For anyone thinking about starting prep. You can do it. Take care of yourself and trust the process, choose resources that fit you. Self-doubt and anxiety creep in from time to time, which is normal. -Make a ‘cheat sheet’ for things you need to look at daily for 5-10 m...

  PASSING THE STEP1- IF I CAN DO IT, SO CAN YOU! HASEEB MUKHTAR CMH BATCH'21         For a quite some time now, step 1 has been haunting millions of med students worldwide. The thought of having to revisit the notorious basic sciences like anatomy, biochem, pharm etc is staggering. Thankfully, now that its switching to a pass/fail system, it seems like much of the tension regarding the test shall melt away. But now the thought of needing to PASS the test continues to scare test takers.   This post is mainly intended for future test takers that shall be sitting for the exam after Jan 26. I have tried to make this less about my experience (because I firmly believe everyone has their own way to go about the exam) and hitting a “good score” (because, let's be honest, scoring is way irrelevant now). But believe it or not, that still doesn’t take away the essence of studying effectively for this huge test. The reason...