# The medical student week

URL: https://gocutline.com/templates/medical-student-week/

A weekly schedule for medical students: lectures in the morning, a fixed hour of spaced repetition at 14:00, two hours of active recall after that, and training three times a week.

## Why it works
- **Flashcards every day,** weekends too, because spaced repetition breaks down when you skip it.
- **Active recall** over re-reading the slides. See [the active recall playbook](https://gocutline.com/playbooks/study-active-recall/).
- **A stop at 18:00** so that you can last for years.

## Make it yours
- On clinical rotations? Put the shift in first and keep the flashcards.
- Exam weeks: use the [exam week](https://gocutline.com/templates/exam-week/).

## Use it
Open the [week builder](https://gocutline.com/#try), paste the line below and adjust the times to your life:

> Lectures 4h weekdays at 8, Flashcards 1h daily at 14, Active recall study 2h weekdays at 15, Gym 3x at 18, Read 30 min daily at 22

The week: Lectures 4h weekdays at 8, Flashcards 1h daily at 14, Active recall study 2h weekdays at 15, Gym 3x at 18, Read 30 min daily at 22

## Questions

**How do medical students manage so much content?**
With spaced repetition every day, and testing themselves rather than re-reading.

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