FA annotation from Uworld - how much?

[anbuitachi]

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How much are people annotating? I find that a lot of times i'm writing down so much stuff from teh questions.. when i guess i can just mark the question and go back to it? I write like a paragraph for each question..

What is everyone doing?

 

[Goober11]

write a few bullet points and then put down the QID so you can search the question at later date.

 

[MDSlacker]

I mostly just write the educational objective plus any information in the explanation that I feel is important. I also don't annotate this into First Aid but just have a separate notebook for all of UWorld and then plan to read through the notebook at some point...hopefully

 

[Back2Life]

So I went through UWorld pretty early on, having covered only 1/2 the stuff in class. I wrote A TON of stuff in FA 2012. Then, I had to get the shiny new FA 2013 and the plan was to transfer all my notes, thereby forcing me to go through FA once. However, going through it after actually learning the stuff in class, I realized a lot of the stuff that I wrote down was actually pretty obvious and I ended up not even looking at my old notes.

I would say that typing notes is much more efficient because it's easily searchable. Also, keep your notes as brief as possible. I made a 2 column table as I went through QBanks which I found very helpful. 1 column would be the Dz (etc) and 1 column would be "trigger words" or BRIEF vignettes or just random facts that I didn't (e.g. my shorthand for Fever, Nausea, Vomitting, Headache = F/N/V/HA).

 

[thedoctor8706]

I annotate only a few bullet points from the educational objective at the bottom, and only if it's something I really don't understand or have never heard from before. After removing the binding from my FA 2013, I converted the text to a searchable PDF so I can easily find the related topics quickly and annotate what I need into a convenient place. I try to never spend more than an hour annotating per 46 question block.

 

[Zzmed]

I annotate only a few bullet points from the educational objective at the bottom, and only if it's something I really don't understand or have never heard from before. After removing the binding from my FA 2013, I converted the text to a searchable PDF so I can easily find the related topics quickly and annotate what I need into a convenient place. I try to never spend more than an hour annotating per 46 question block.

Actually, I've done this for Rx and Kaplan. When the time to use Uworld comes, I might be annotating in a notebook or something. I don't know. Because, my FA is already heavily annotated.

 

[skyblue2000]

I've never gotten this concept either...if UW is basically the last thig you're doing, wouldn't ur FA already be very full by that time to write more in? I think the excel sheet with the notes and one keyword idea is great actually!

 

[beatsbydre]

I try to annotate everything that is not covered in FA. If the explanation includes a biochemical pathway I usually draw it out on a separate sheet of paper to learn it better, even if first aid already has it. I don't annotate from any other source.

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[InFactotum]

FWIW, I finished UW a couple months ago and started annotating all of my incorrects. I started off doing this in FA thinking it would be great to have a one-stop source for everything. It took FOREVER. I abandoned ship about 25% in and started writing a single line (max 2) in a notebook for key concepts I had trouble with and the question number. Much faster, still in an easy place to access. I've read that a lot of people suggest not writing ANYTHING down. Any questions I do from now until the exam I don't plan to write, but I think it was helpful to annotate my first pass.

 

[anbuitachi]

the problem i have is the education objective is so simple, but their explanation is so huge w/ full of details. so idk if i need to write down those things or just get from objective.. hard decision but i think i'll focus more on objective.. lack of time

 

[skyblue2000]

would you guys STRONGLY recommend annotating from UW or Rx into FA... or is making a different excel with the questions good enough..and to kinda read along in the 2nd read of FA. <-- Right now, that's my plan.

I just feel like writing it as opposed to typing it now takes up SOOO much time that it wouldn't be worth it. Please correct me if you think I'm wrong!