time management for medical student

1. Saeed Esmailian

3. Time management is a set of principles, practices, skills,
tools, and systems that work together to help you get more
value out of your time with the aim of improving the quality
of your life

8. Exercise # 1
Fill your time management Questionnaire # 10 min
Fill Where Does the Time Go? # 10 min
Share your results !!! # 5 min

11. Stephan Covey Model

12. Two kinds of Time Managers :
1. Those that schedule every minute of the day
2. Those that schedule based on Goals & Mission

16. 1. Be aware of your many roles
2. Create goals for each role
3. Set yourself up for success in each role by planning and
scheduling
4. Add the most IMPORTANT things to your schedule first

17. Exercise #2
Roles/Jobs Exercise:
• List your multiple roles
• List goals for each
• Daily / Weekly / Monthly

18. Exercise #2
Roles -Example
• Parent
• Sibling
• Supervisor
• Employee
• Team member
• Provider
• Spouse
Goals- Example
• Soccer game – Weds
• Brothers Birthday
• Evaluations due
• Project start
• Meeting, deliverables
• Obligations
• Date nigh

19. Exercise #2
Your turn!!!
10 min

20. Start your weekly Planning

21. Now start filling in your week

23. •
– Compelling immediate action or attention
– Insistent
– Conveying a sense of pressing importance
•
– Of great significance
– Strongly effecting the coarse of events
– Valuable in content

24. Urgent vs. Important

26. Exercise #3
Fill your Urgency Matrix 10 min
Share your matrix 5 min

33. Exercise # 4
•The S.M.A.R.T. Chart
•Each goal can have multiple action steps- but must be
measurable
10 min
Share your SMART Charts 10 Min

35. • Good Planning Tool
• Effective office space
• Identify and limit interruptions
– Turn off the Blackberry periodically
• Set Priorities and keep them
• Daily, Weekly & Monthly planning
• Review/Preview your day – everyday!
• Report out weekly! Accountability Partner

36. • Contains
– Week and Month at a Glance
– Task list
– Daily scheduler
– Room for notes
• Needs to be personalized
• Needs to be part of your lifestyle
• Needs to be accessible
• Needs room for multiple months - binder

37. Digital
vs
Paper

40. 1. Toggl Online Timer
2. Evernote
3. Google tools (Keep,calender,drive,...)
4. TeamWeek
5. Toodledo, Toggl,Terllo

41. 1. Scheduling Study Time
2. Taking Notes
3. Managing Big Assignments
4. Study Groups

43. • repetition or emphasis
• Write down vocabulary, important facts and formulas
• Asking questions
• words and use symbols
• review your notes
• flashcard method
• spend the majority of your time in your most difficult
subjects 20-80 rule

45. Managing Big Assignments
• Divided to multiple part
• Read important part at first
• Using PBL

46. Study Groups
• choose the right people and have a set process
• Study groups should meet no more than 2-3 hours at a time.
• time frame
• meet at regular times in a location that everyone finds to
be a comfortable study environment.

47. Additional Time Management Tips
• set realistic times
• Have some flexibility in your
• Use any spare time
• Staying organizedised
• It is ok to say “no” to non-critical tasks.
• Reward Yourself.
• live a healthy lifestyle.

48. Time Management Tips for Working
Students
• learn to successfully balance time.
• clear communication with others.

49. Quastion?