Advice on Biochem...Please help!!!

[jellygreen2001]

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Hi everyone,

we are doing biochem now, and I had never done it in undergrad🙁 WE are doing metabolism, and I am just not getting it. It takes me forever to memorize the reactions and things like the tca cycle any advice at all on how I could speed up my studying or things I could do to help. I have already started to fall really behind and our test is coming up soon. Advice on how I can survive this would be greatly apprecitated.
thanks in advance

 

[one11]

Try to foucs more on what upon your hand, and convince your self that you will
understand it very correctly as many of your colleagues do .

Try to write everything while you study metabolic reactions, writing everything
is a good way to memorize.

use these websites:
http://www.gwu.edu/~mpb/
http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/

also, this book is a valuable one in Biochem:
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0781722659/ref=s9_asin_title_1/102-9733764-1021707

I hope that helped even a little .

 

[OncoCaP]

Try to foucs more on what upon your hand, and convince your self that you will
understand it very correctly as many of your colleagues do .

Try to write everything while you study metabolic reactions, writing everything
is a good way to memorize.

use these websites:
http://www.gwu.edu/~mpb/
http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/

also, this book is a valuable one in Biochem:
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0781722659/ref=s9_asin_title_1/102-9733764-1021707

I hope that helped even a little .

I appreciated the links (I'm sure I will get some benefit from this when I start later this summer).

 

[vtucci]

Lippincott's- learn it, love it, live it. The bible of biochem.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

Lippincott's- learn it, love it, live it. The bible of biochem.

Good advice. The diagrams are excellent for med school content. It's the best yield.

Stay away from the undergrad/grad (Voet, Stryer, etc.) texts for medical school unless you just want to keep them around for reference.

 

[turkleton]

Lippincott's is good, but even that's too comprehensive. I took biochem undergrad, so had a bit of an advantage. However, I never strayed beyond class room notes for a class like biochem- technical and not terribly clinically usefull, so you learn what they want you to learn. For the pathways what worked for me was drawing it out while looking at it, wait 5 minutes, and try to redraw it from memory... and I would do it repeatadly, a couple times a day... not that creative, but it eventually stuck, long enough for the exam anyway.

 

[vtucci]

For what it is worth, a number of students at my school put this excel spread sheet together. If it does not upload, PM me with your e-mail address and I'll send it to you.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

However, I never strayed beyond class room notes for a class like biochem- technical and not terribly clinically usefull, so you learn what they want you to learn.

Yeah me too. Props for Lippincott's is heresay, but my profs used the diagrams in the notes.

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

We covered this stuff in UG Biochem, and I just sucked it up and kept drawing the pathways (Glycolysis, TCA, Electron Transport, etc) with the enyzymes, products, etc over and over again.

I had this feeling of being overwhelmed at first, but as you realize that you know most of it from reading, and you work onthe things you don't know, your confidence will build and it didn't take me THAT long (1/2 hour - 1 hour) to get all of those pathways down.

FWIW, I am a visual and especially kinetic learner, so if your learning style is different, this may not work for you.

 

[samenewme]

Write out the pathways, but at some point, just cover up the next step and try to recite it. It may also help you to try to cover up the pathway and go through it backwards. I have no idea why, but I did find this helpful.