Archive for 'Wellness & Health' Category

Prepare 5 Days’ Breakfast in 5 Minutes

. combine oats and water, bring them to a boil, then cover and turn off the heat. Leave overnight and in the morning simply warm them up. They’ll be perfectly cooked Do this just once on Sunday night, and divide the oatmeal between five jars. You’re immediately set up for a week of breakfasts . [...]

Zeo – Maximize Sleep Quality

If you can measure it, you can improve it… Your quality of sleep is central to your quality of life. Zeo is designed to help you analyze your sleep and improve it, so you can be your best every day. You begin by wearing the Zeo Headband each night. The headband uses our patent-pending SoftWave™ [...]

How to Avoid the Survivalist Mindset Throughout Medical School

when you go through life thinking “if I can make it through this, things will be better later,” you eventually forget what “better” means. the despair that accompanies the perpetual postponement of an enjoyable life has a way of making its presence known. I spent the last decade researching and writing books about students who [...]

Commentary: Regulation of Energy Drinks

Amelia M. Arria, PhD & Mary Claire O’Brien, MD offer their opinion on energy drink regulation in JAMA In this Commentary, we outline why regular (nonalcoholic) energy drinks might pose just as great a threat to individual and public health and safety. Energy drinks are beverages that contain modest to relatively high levels and concentrations [...]

Intelligence Training in the Academic Setting

Alvaro Fernandez & Martin Buschkuehl explore computer-assisted working memory training and its impact: -“Working Memory” is the ability to hold several units of information in our minds and manipulate them in real time. For example, imagine I ask you to remember, and then say backwards, the 7 digits of my phone number. -“Fluid intelligence” can be [...]

Avoiding Burnout in Medical School

1. Plan ahead – One of the biggest reasons for burnout is lack of proper planning. Thus, you over-commit yourself, sometimes having multiple deadlines running in the same time. This leads to late nights and high stress levels later on. 5.Cut off the ‘busy work’ – There are always fire-fighting activities and administrative tasks in [...]

Forum Filter: Managing Relationships in Medical School

tristak: Communication is key. Being in love is a wonderful thing especially with your soul mate. I have been very fortunate to be with someone that is supportive and fits into my madness. I was once in a position where I was concerned that if I didn’t find someone to share my life with soon [...]

Caffeine Maintenance – Can Missing Your Morning Cup of Coffee Reduce Productivity?

An update on Professor Peter Rogers caffeine research… “Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee, or other caffeine-containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal,” wrote the scientists, led by Peter Rogers of Bristol’s department of experimental psychology. [...]

RePost: Managing Exam Stress & Optimizing Performance

Philip Zack: Many people have an automatic train of “self talk” in their heads, which has the effect of giving up control to external factors with unhelpful statements such as, “The exam is making me stressed” or “I’m bound to fail again.” Take control of these self talk messages by challenging them—for example, “The exam [...]

Finding Quiet Time

2. Take Two Minutes to Plan Your Morning – take just two minutes to plan your morning. Grab a post-it note. Jot down three things that you want to get done before lunch. 5. Have a Complete Rest When You Get Home – How often do you get home from work feeling frazzled, exhausted and [...]