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7 Books Every Medical Student Should Read
Anatomy and physiology textbooks will likely be at your side during your medical studies, and you’ll be reading...
A Guide to Medical Specialties
Medical students are often confident in stating their desire to 'become a doctor'. But what about the specific types...
How To Use LinkedIn Effectively
LinkedIn is an amazing resource for students and graduates as much as it is for working professionals. But few people actually know how to use LinkedIn effectively to harness its full potential. This guide will help you make the most of your LinkedIn profile, whether...
How Can Students Develop Resilience?
Today’s young people face unprecedented mental health challenges. Never has it been more important that we understand both why this is happening, and how to support young people to develop strategies which can shore up their mental wellbeing. Teens face increasing...
The Ultimate Guide To Summer Internships
What is an internship? There are so many productive things you can do with your school holidays, and an internship is one of the most valuable! An internship is a temporary period of work with a company. It differs from more casual work experience and...
The Once and Future Norm
Things must not have been as good as they seemed. Because we already know we aren’t going back to them - even once we can. A collective casualty of Covid is our old way of life. Once Covid is resolved through vaccines, herd immunity, or accepted numbers of deaths in...
The Lessons of Covid School
Education is a lifelong process, and every single one of us is now in Covid school. What do we do with a plague that became a quarantine that became a school? It can be hard to distinguish between Covid and his lessons, between the suffering of plague and the...
Five Tips for Productive Study at Home
Even for the most productive amongst us, working from home can often be a challenge. The temptation to stay in pyjamas, just finish watching that one episode or treat ourselves to an extra hour in bed can be a hard habit to quit. However, these tips and tricks ensure...
Navigating Home Study – How to Support Your Child During Quarantine
In the current climate surrounding Covid-19, it is understandable that both students and parents should be worried about the uncertain state of academia. For most parents, the closure of schools has raised worries about how to support children who are studying at...
How A High School Summer Programme Might Benefit Your College Application
It’s well known that colleges receive more applications than places. At top institutions in the United States such as Harvard and Stanford University, less than 5% of applicants successfully gained places in 2017. This means your application needs to be really strong...
Mock Clinics: What Is The Medicine Challenge?
All of our summer courses here at the Oxford Scholastica Academy include a Challenge. These Challenges allow you to put everything you’ve learned over the course of the program into practice. If you’re taking part in one of our Medicine summer school courses, you’ll...
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