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💫From pre-med to practicing physician—this is where you ASCEND.

🚨 Mark Your Calendars 🚨
Premieres September 8th, 2025 at 1PM EST
📍 Live on AME’s YouTube (link in bio)

✨ Season 1 of AME’s ‘Facilitated Sessions’ is here.

These sessions are more than conversations—they’re a movement. A guiding light for anyone navigating any stage of the medical journey:
👩🏽‍🎓 Pre-med students grinding through prerequisites
📚 Test-takers conquering the MCAT & USMLE
📝 Applicants facing the admissions committee & residency MATCH
👨🏾‍⚕️ Licensed physicians still shaping their path

💡 Featuring Dr. David L. Taylor, DHA, MEd & Dr. Darren W. Jackson II, MD, MPH — this season blends wisdom, mentorship, and lived experience to create a blueprint for building a sustainable, successful career in medicine.

⚡ Season 1 Focus:
• MCAT strategies & mindset
• Insider admissions & application insights
• Wellness practices woven into every stage of training
• Preparing not just for medical school—but for the life of a physician

🎬 Get ready for a premiere that will uplift, inform, and inspire the next generation of doctors.

📅 September 8th, 2025. 1:00 PM EST
📲 Subscribe, share, & hit the notification 🔔 so you don’t miss it!

🎶by Future Doc @ruezilient.productions

🔥 Are you ready to ASCEND with AME? by @amedocs

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🚀 Meet Dr. David L. Taylor, DHA, MEd – Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ascension Medical Educators (AME)!

With over 30 years of experience in medical education and admissions, Dr. Taylor is a master of transforming learning strategies into real success. Through his meticulous academic advising methodology, he customizes educational and career plans that guide aspiring physicians at all levels toward academic and personal achievement.

Beyond medical school admissions, Dr. Taylor supports ongoing success in residency and specialty practice, helping clients excel in “in-service” assessments, specialty certification, and beyond.

Ready to take your medical journey to the next level? Let AME help you ascend!

🚨Free AMCAS Workshops for Pre-medical students available through April 2025
•Minimum 50 student pre-registration
• 2 student ambassadors get exclusive 1-on-1 AMCAS consultations!
• Media release required
📌register www.ascenmed.com

#AscensionMedicalEducators #Mentorship #MedicalEducation #futuredoctors #ame #aspiringdoctor #medicine #howtogetintomedicalschool #futuredoc #premed #prehealth #medschool #futuremd #medical #schoolresidency #advising #representationmatters #doctorsofinstagram #applyingtomedschool #health #healthcareers #highereducation #doctor by @amedocs

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Apply to the Slater-Millner Scholarship today! You are eligible to receive up to $15,000 to support your aspirations of becoming physician!

DEADLINE: May 19th, 2022

Check out the link in our bio for application eligibility criteria.

#ame #aspiringdoctor #medicine #howtogetintomedicalschool #futuredoc #premed #prehealth #medschool #futuremd #medical #schoolresidency #advising #representationmatters #doctorsofinstagram #applyingtomedschool #health #healthcareers #highereducation #doctor by @amedocs

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3 Ways to Build a Mentorship Relationship: Facilitated Sessions Podcast

Building a genuine professional relationship in medicine should feel natural rather than forced. In this session, Dr. Asante M. Dickson breaks down three essential ways to improve the creation of a seamless mentoring relationship. In this clip, we explore how to allow mentorship to grow organically over time, bring tangible value to the connection by sharing relevant articles or research related to their specialty, and maintain consistency by providing progress updates and expressing gratitude for past guidance. Discover why true mentorship is a two-way street built on trust rather than transactional interactions.

Catch full length Facilitated Sessions Podcast Episodes on our YouTube channel: AMEDocs

Connect with AME
Instagram: @AMEDocs
TikTok: @ascenmed
YouTube: @AMEDocs
Email: info@ascenmed.com
Website: ascensionmedicaleducators.com

#FacilitatedSessionsPod #Mentorship #PreMed #AscensionMed #HigherEducation by @amedocs

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The Weekly Study Reset: Measure, Adjust, and Thrive Weekly

If you want to sustain high performance throughout medical school, consistency requires calibration. When you measure, adjust, and thrive weekly, you realize that weekly reflection reveals useful patterns that help you avoid burnout. By reviewing your results at week’s end, you can track your focus across study sessions, note when your energy naturally declines, and match your most difficult work with your cognitive peaks. Identify active-learning friction points by spotting obstacles that slow down your active practice, removing distractions, and simplifying your routines before adding new tools. Calibrate your studies every Sunday by conducting weekly review audits, identifying workflow friction points, adjusting your methods using real evidence, and planning your next week intentionally. Small adjustments compound over time, and consistent audits support steady growth.

Catch our Facilitated Sessions airing Mondays at 1:00 PM on our YouTube channel: AMEDocs

Connect with AME:
Instagram: @AMEDocs
TikTok: @ascenmed
YouTube: @AMEDocs
Email: info@ascensionmedicaleducators.com
Website: ascensionmedicaleducators.com

#ScienceOfLearning #StudyReset #MedSchoolLife #StudyHacks #FutureDoctor by @amedocs

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3 Ways to Request a Strong Letter of Recommendation: Facilitated Sessions Shorts

Securing a powerful letter of recommendation after shadowing requires a strategic approach rather than a generic request. In this session, Dr. Asante M. Dickson breaks down three essential ways to request a strong letter of recommendation. In this clip, we explore how to set expectations early by informing the physician early in your rotation that you hope to earn their trust and support. Discover why making it easy by furnishing a brag sheet consisting of your CV, a personal statement draft, and patient interactions helps, and why giving them a graceful out ensures a genuine and supportive response.

Full Facilitating Sessions Podcast episodes are available on our YouTube channel AMEDocs

Connect with AME
Instagram: @AMEDocs
TikTok: @ascenmed
YouTube: @AMEDocs
Email: info@ascenmed.com
Website: ascensionmedicaleducators.com

#FacilitatedSessionsPodcast #LettersOfRecommendation #PreMed #AscensionMed #HigherEducation by @amedocs

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How Balancing life fuels learning mastery: Facilitated Sessions Podcast

Integrating overall life balance into your daily routine is essential to achieving sustainable academic success and preventing cognitive burnout. In part four of “The Science of Learning,” Dr. Jackson and Dr. Taylor break down advanced study and time management tools. In this clip, we explore how staying connected, taking care of everyday life tasks, and creating protected self time are all ingredients of life balance for a scholar. Discover why creating and following schedules lowers your risk of becoming overwhelmed from the various aspects of your life by decreasing decision fatigue and promoting motivation, discipline, and action.

Facilitating Sessions airing Monday at 1:00 PM on our YouTube channel AMEDocs

Connect with AME
Instagram: @AMEDocs
TikTok: @ascenmed
YouTube: @AMEDocs
Email: info@ascenmed.com
Website: ascensionmedicaleducators.com

#FacilitatedSessionsPod #LifeBalance #LearningMastery #AscensionMed #HigherEducation by @amedocs

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Sleep Beats Cramming: Why Rest Protects Learning, Memory, and Performance

When exam season hits, late-night cramming feels like the only option, but choosing sleep over cramming is actually your highest-yield strategy. Sleep protects your learning and judgment, while late cramming increases costly mistakes and executive function crashes. Fatigue impairs recall and focus, leaving tired brains with slower, less accurate processing and weakened attention. In contrast, sleep consolidates lasting memories by replaying newly encoded information overnight, making memories more stable and strengthening later retrieval. To protect your cognitive bandwidth, set a firm study cutoff, trust your preparation instead of panicking, and choose rest over panic.

This topic ties directly into this week’s theme of our Facilitated Sessions podcast, titled The Science of Learning, where we dive deeper into mastering these exact strategies.

Catch our Facilitated Sessions airing Mondays at 1:00 PM on our YouTube channel: AMEDocs

Connect with AME:
Instagram: @AMEDocs
TikTok: @ascenmed
YouTube: @AMEDocs
Email: info@ascensionmedicaleducators.com
Website: ascensionmedicaleducators.com

#ScienceOfLearning #SleepHygiene #MedSchoolLife #StudyHacks #FutureDoctor by @amedocs

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If you had 168 hours… What would you do? | Facilitated Sessions Podcast

Evaluating how you distribute your time across the entire week is critical for maintaining long-term sustainability in medical training. In part four of “The Science of Learning,” Dr. Jackson and Dr. Taylor break down advanced study and time management tools. In this clip, we explore how 168 hours makes up your academic week and how appropriate allocation of time to different aspects of life keeps you balanced and resilient. Discover why prioritizing sleep, wellness, social engagement, management, and time alongside academic expectations helps you thrive despite grueling demands and lower your risk of burnout.

Facilitating Sessions airing Monday at 1:00 PM on our YouTube channel AMEDocs

Connect with AME
Instagram: @AMEDocs
TikTok: @ascenmed
YouTube: @AMEDocs
Email: info@ascenmed.com
Website: ascensionmedicaleducators.com

#FacilitatedSessionsPod #TimeManagement #BurnoutPrevention #AscensionMed #HigherEducation by @amedocs

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Facilitated Sessions Podcast: How to Transform Into a Test Question Predictor

Mastering exam preparation means moving beyond passive review and learning to anticipate how concepts will be tested. In part four of “The Science of Learning,” Dr. Jackson and Dr. Taylor break down advanced study and time management tools. In this clip, we explore how writing relational test questions can be an effective way to optimize your learning strategy. Discover why connecting the questions you write to your learning or educational objectives is an active way to link multiple concepts of information.

Facilitating Sessions airing Monday at 1:00 PM on our YouTube channel AMEDocs

Connect with AME
Instagram: @AMEDocs
TikTok: @ascenmed
YouTube: @AMEDocs
Email: info@ascenmed.com
Website: ascensionmedicaleducators.com

#FacilitatedSessionsPod #TestPreparation #StudyStrategy #AscensionMed #HigherEducation by @amedocs

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Facilitated Sessions Podcast: Are You An Efficient Highlighter

Transforming how you highlight text starts with approaching every marker stroke with a clear purpose rather than treating it like passive coloring. In part four of “The Science of Learning,” Dr. Jackson and Dr. Taylor break down advanced study and time management tools. In this clip, we explore how highlighting with intention always yields the best learning outcome, whether you are marking up your study text or analyzing a test question vignette. Discover why targeting the most relevant information takes intention and why remaining engaged when highlighting helps keep your study session an active process.

Facilitating Sessions airing Monday at 1:00 PM on our YouTube channel AMEDocs

Connect with AME
Instagram: @AMEDocs
TikTok: @ascenmed
YouTube: @AMEDocs
Email: info@ascenmed.com
Website: ascensionmedicaleducators.com

#FacilitatedSessionsPod #EfficientHighlighting #ActiveStudy #AscensionMed #HigherEducation by @amedocs

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Stop Transcribing Lectures: Why Active Engagement Beats Passive Note-Taking

If you find yourself frantically trying to copy every word during a lecture, it is time to ditch passive transcription. Transcription consumes your limited attention without actual processing, and copied words rarely create true understanding. To transform your learning, replace transcription with active engagement by summarizing ideas using your own language, using split-pages and shorthand to capture keywords instead of full sentences, and structuring complex lecture objectives instantly by grouping themes and marking core mechanisms. Eliminate passive note-taking, promote active thinking, and focus on recording relationships instead of every single phrase.

This topic ties directly into this week’s theme of our Facilitated Sessions podcast, titled The Science of Learning, where we dive deeper into mastering these exact strategies.

Catch our Facilitated Sessions airing Mondays at 1:00 PM on our YouTube channel: AMEDocs

Connect with AME:
Instagram: @AMEDocs
TikTok: @ascenmed
YouTube: @AMEDocs
Email: info@ascensionmedicaleducators.com
Website: ascensionmedicaleducators.com

#ScienceOfLearning #ActiveRecall #MedSchoolLife #StudyHacks #FutureDoctor by @amedocs

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