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This site was created to foster the academic success and professional growth of both premedical students and medical students.  There is also content related to teaching and other applications of personality type in health professions education.   It is my belief that:

• Academic strength begins with self-awareness, not intelligence.
• Students have the obligation to extend beyond their learning style in order to develop critical thinking skills required of all health care professionals.
• Teachers have the obligation to understand themselves as students in order to be effective teachers.  This is because teachers unconsciously teach through their own learning style.

• Competency in medical practice or any other health profession requires competent teaching.

What is a SuccessType?  Although the word “type” refers to a preference, the SuccessTypes term was not intended to refer to a preference for success.  I created the term “SuccessTypes” to refer to those students who use their knowledge of personality type to develop themselves into a successful professional.

Transformation of experience (Kolb, Experiential Learning, 1983)

David Kolb observed that critical thinking skills occur best when students transform their own experience into knowledge.  However, students often see themselves only as receivers of information and teachers often see themselves primarily as providers of information.  This is an undesirable and unproductive relationship in professional education because it is a passive relationship and creates a dependency that students must eventually overcome.  Furthermore, learning information is not the same as learning how to use information.  If this website has the effect that I intend, students will be inspired to transform themselves from receivers of information into producers of their own knowledge and teachers will be inspired to transform themselves from providers of information into "catalysts" that help students discover and decide.

SuccessTypes^TM Medical Education Page
Descriptive Menu of Major Features

SuccessTypes Survival Strategy  What to do when you are drowning in a sea of body parts with Greek and Latin names.  Also useful for MCAT and USMLE review.

SuccessTypes Learning Style Type Indicator  A guide to your psychological type explained in terms of your learning style.  I would be happy to send you the Introduction to the LSTI and the LSTI in pdf format.  Please email at the address below and let me know.

SuccessTypes in Medical Education  My updated book summarizing and extending my academic counseling methods that were developed over a decade of helping students. Also useful for teachers.

Pre-matriculation program  A simple process to prepare for medical school. This is the best way to spend your time if you have just been accepted to medical school or any other health professional degree program.  Seriously, studying Gray's Anatomy is pointless if you don't understand yet how you learn and how tests are written.

Note:  I welcome comments concerning the content, organization, and problems with links.  If you want to learn a little more about me, click on my picture for my curriculum vitae. Or, if you want a shorter biosketch is available.