Do doctors actually use their med school notes?

[Corgi]

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Hi guys,

I am trying to figure out a notetaking system for school. I prefer handwriting notes as I learn more, but typing notes makes it easier to study in the future.

Do doctors/residents actually use their med school or college notes? If so, is this usually on Ipads/computers/phones/notebooks and do you reference your notes while at the hospital or at home?

 

[TheDataKing]

99% sure they do not. I have multiple friends that are residents and they burned their notes (cathartic) or they might use pocket medicine but that's already written...

 

[efle]

Lmao no. Common stuff you know cold. Stuff you dont, you look up on a computer or you'll be told from a curbside. Absolutely nobody is leafing through handwritten notes to find what that one professor's slide said from 10 years ago.

 

[Lawpy]

Lmao no. Common stuff you know cold. Stuff you dont, you look up on a computer or you'll be told from a curbside. Absolutely nobody is leafing through handwritten notes to find what that one professor's slide said from 10 years ago.

thoughts on UptoDate though

 

[gyngyn]

thoughts on UptoDate though

No.

 

[piii]

Nope. I didn’t even take “notes” either. I wrote down something’s in PowerPoint, crosses referenced with board review books and did question banks along side, and turned that info into Anki flash cards (or used premade decks).

 

[9blade]

Our family's family physician still uses his notes. lol. I specifically remember one visit where I walked in with a chief complaint of abdominal pain. He took out his notes and started looking through pages and pages. While he did that, he kept repeating to me "In medschool, they taught us that if you have this presenting with that, then the diagnosis is this." The guy is old(60), so if that's what he needed to do to correctly diagnose me, whatever. haha. I didn't mind.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

I don’t even take notes, so I definitely won’t be using mine. Also things change. We literally had a lecture where a paper had been published the day before that basically made a lot of what we were learning that day sort of wrong. But we still got tested on the old way because the results from the paper have to be replicated, etc.

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

I use notes from residency as an attending. But nothing from med school.

 

[Tenk]

The only things I use are uptodate and youtube.

 

[redpanda]

Notes? No. Anki cards that have had to be pulled out of the bottom of the deck while studying for subspecialty boards? Oh yes.

 

[Isoval]

Notes? Wtf are those

 

[RangerBob]

Haven’t looked at med school notes since med school, except once out of curiosity.

I reference my residency notes a fair amount.

UpToDate, medical journals/texts, and Drs. Google and Wikipedia for everything else.

 

[Mad Jack]

I disposed of mine and it felt amazing

 

[longhaul3]

All you really learn in med school is IM, ob/gyn, psych, and a little peds, so those of us in other fields would be SOL. In any case the answer is no.

 

[CherryRedDracul]

Nope.

But I can see myself using some of my notes and slides from residency for future practice.

 

[getdown]

lol. That stuff you should know cold not to mention probably outdated anyway.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Tell me more about these "notes" that you speak of...

 

[Meerkatology]

uptodate is kind of your bible now...

everything else is heresay and should be burned.