Movies medical students should watch

By random order:

• Awakenings 
• The Doctor 
• Lorenzo's Oil
• The Fisher King  
• Wit  
• Philadelphia
• Patch Adams
• Awake
• Something the Lord Made 
• And the Band Played On 
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 
• The Painted Veil 
• The Race for the Double Helix 
• Article 99 
• Sicko 
• John Q 
• My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown 
• The Hospital 
• Britannia Hospital 
• Gifted hands: The Ben Carson story
• Gross anatomy
• Living proof
• Extraordinary measures
• A beautiful mind
• Shutter island

Also check out  this link for a more comprehensive list of medical themed movies

Tips for studying Internal Medicine

Internal Medicine (IM) is a big part of Medicine in general (the other two are surgery and laboratory medicine) which has it's own mentality and way of thinking. While studying IM, knowledge is not the only  goal you should have but approaching that kind of logic is something you should achieve, too. For that reason reading an IM textbook is less than enough. So these are some tips for approaching IM from an holistic point of view:

Felson’s 10 Axioms for a Lifetime of Learning Medicine

Felson’s 10 Axioms for a Lifetime of Learning Medicine

1. You like it, you’ll learn it; so learn to like it.
2. Principles are as important as facts. If you master the principles, you can make up the facts.

What a medical student should be equiped with

Every medical student should be equiped with the following:

1)Interest in the science and art of Medicine

2)Patience (there will be many points in your medical career where you will not be doing what you want the way you want... just keep in mind your goals)

3)Keep in mind that Medicine exists for the patients not for the doctors needs

4)And finally... books...lots of books (and study them of course... decorational use is not enough :P )