Help me channel my enthusiasm!

So having just been given an unconditional offer to med school, I am super super enthusiastic about medicine and am desperate to start now!

I am on a gap year working as an HCA and I mostly take blood blood pressure etc.

I was wondering if any medics had any recommendations as to what I could do/learn before I start in september that will make my life easier in the first couple of years of the course.

Are there any areas which are easy to understand but just take ages to learn, or is there anything that you just wish you knew before starting the course?

This is exactly the position that i am in at the moment. I too can't wait to start medical school and I'm working as a HCA.
Hurry up September..please

Awesome, what kinda stuff do you do as an HCA?

And which uni are you going to?

Birmingham 4 year medicine course (Graduate entry programme)

And as a HCA Im involved in taking blood pressures, pulse, temp etc (filling early warning charts) cleaning patients..just ensuring patients are comfortable..same as your role I expect!

Which uni are you off to?

Cool, I got an offer from manchester, but still waiting on Newcastle and Glasgow, so I'm not entirely sure where I am off to yet!

I'm work in a GP surgery, so I mostly take blood. I also see people with chronic conditions such as high blood pressure or coronary heart disease for their checkups on a regular basis.

I have really enjoyed working there for the past 7 months and will be sad to leave as the team here is awesome.

I'd love to have some experience in a hospital though, must be a very different environment to what I work in.

As a non-science person entering a graduate-entry medicine course, I wish I'd learned more basic science before I started - especially biology-type stuff. But if you're from a science background do what the others said and chill out and go on holiday.