How I study medicine

How I study medicine

1. The fundamentals for the exams

   • 1 - Do sbobine
     • Usually done as a classroom effort: each student does a sbobina
     • Transcriptions of what the professor says, essentially word by word, integrated with pictures taken from slides.
   • 3 - Read aloud
     • I don't do it all the time, but just when I am not very concentrated and/or I am beginning to fall asleep, generally
     • Increase concentration
     • Avoid sleeping
     • Helps to better retain and understand what you read
   • 2 - Underline the material
     • PDF
       • More portable than printed
       • Cheap (no printing)
     • Print
       • More control than with PDF
   • 4 - Repeat (≥3 times)
     • With classmates (studying alone is painful)
       • Skype, Facetime
       • Alive
       • Advantages
         • Compare what you know with your classmate
         • Keep up the concentration
         • Excellent when you don't want to study
           • Call on Skype when concentration decreases
         • It helps you organize the day (if you set a specific time)
         • It helps you go on when motivation goes down
     • (Alone)

2. Additional resources

   • Firecracker
     • You can put all your notes and images in one place
     • Accessible everywhere
     • My suggestion
       • Don't use it daily to do all review questions of your past exams, otherwise you end up with doing them the whole day
       • Just use it as an online reference text
     • Excellent substitution to First Aid
   • Use flashcards and mindmaps
     • My suggestion is to use these tools in the later stages, otherwise we could spend a lot of time in doing schemes and flash cards when they are really not necessary
     • Flash cards
       • Make them in a more advance phase of your study, when you have defined well what you need to remember through flash cards. You risk otherwise (as I did) to make flash cards of everything and then not use them.
       • Quizlet
         • For the moment the best flash card tool I know
     • Mind maps
       • Since you need a lot of time to do them, just do them after some repetitions of the material, when you have defined what you really need to clarify through a map. Otherwise, if you do them before knowing the material, you risk to make mind maps of what is not necessary and then not use them.
       • Mindmeister
       • Best way to schematize complex and articulated topics
         • For the details, use flash cards
     • Good before an exam
   • Books
   • Inkling
     • Great search function
     • All your books in one place
     • Available online
     • Since most of the books in medicine are used as reference and they are not read as you read a novel, this is an excellent tool
   • Effective and time-saving ways to have a solid basis of must-know concepts in medicine
     • Picmonic
       • Not tested, but it seems very useful to memorize complex diseases, bugs and drugs
       • If you like it also SketchyMicro
       • It seems good to learn the key concepts of medicine and retain them well
         • Absolutely not possible to do this with Firecracker in my opinion
     • Medcomic
       • Integrate the images in Firecracker
   • Apps
     • Prognosis

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