do you study review books for actual classes?

[youngstud]

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That is my question. lots of students here at Ross do that. i wonder if
it is the same for students in the US schools?
anyone from those ivy schools? i wonder how they study over there? i am
sure that it would be totally different.

I just read one post about those old study materials. most of you said
that you won't have time to study all those old materials for the
boards.

so i am just wondering when you study, do you just study for the
professors, or for the boards? i am sure that the professors' handouts
would be a little different from what you need to know for usmle.

 

[ddmo]

i'm not from an ivy school but...

yes, i study from review books, but it is to supplement the material I get from my professors. In general, the material is the same between my notes and the review book, the only difference is that the review books get rid of the filler. I study for my classes, which is essentially studying for the boards in greater detail. Using only review books would in no way be sufficient to do well in the classes, and using notes for the boards would just take too much time.

hope this helps

 

[youngstud]

thanks for the answer.

i have another question. how many of u actually read the textbooks front to back? like the pathology textbooks, it is so thick. even if i read the whole book, there is no way that i can remember all.

 

[dsblaha]

I glance at the review books to make sure I am learning the right stuff but otherwise I study almost exclusively from lectures. The lectures generally cover everything in the review books and more (as was already stated).

I don't read any textbooks, although sometimes I look at the pictures. The one exception is Robbins Pathology just because it is so interesting. However, I don't read it from front to back, rather just read the specific section I have a question about. This may change as a second year student next year.

 

[thackl]

I'm just an MS1, but so far reading text books has been a waste of time. I get the most out of lecture notes and scribes. Depending on the class and subject, I will suplement with review books.

 

[efex101]

Same here, lecture syllabi and then for high yield info the review books with practice questions aka BRS. I also read Robbins to clarify points...

 

[mackaikai]

lecture notes + BRS...that's all...
I haven't bought any textbook this quarter.

 

[Long Dong]

Lecture notes and review books are my main source. I don't use textbooks at all. For clarification of certain points, my schools PBL curriculum has made us very proficient at looking things up using the medical literature or internet.

 

[quideam]

I basically do notes, and then use textbooks as a reference if I need a better explanation of a topic. We have the lecturers' slides online, so I go through those while reviewing my notes. I use the BRS review books on and off - pretty much depends on the subject. For biochem, I didn't because there's not enough detail in the review books to pass the med school course; for embryo, i'm using 'high yield embryo' as a quick review the night before (make sure i didn't miss any big points).

Quid

 

[alliemac]

I'm a lecture-notes and BRS girl myself. I'll borrow the occasional text here and there.