Advice to new medical students: what I wish I'd known

Ollie Burton
Final year medical student Ollie Burton has learned a thing or two about making the most of opportunities at medical school. Here’s his advice for freshers and what he wishes he’d known when he started medical school.

We all have the greatest of sympathies with new starters at medical school this year – this probably isn’t how you imagined your fresher’s experience would be.

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Ollie Burton

Ollie Burton is an academic foundation doctor working between the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospitals in Newcastle, England. He graduated from Warwick Medical School in 2021 and is now pursuing a career combining his interests in medical education and the clinical neurosciences.