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Hey all,
I'm a first year who is about to become a 2nd year! I am happy that we're almost 50% done with didactic, but what worries me is that how am I supposed to retain all this huge amount of info (and I am not even counting 2nd year yet!) for board?! I am currently doing well, but our schedule is overloaded with exams (~2/week, every week) that I feel I am constantly purging-craming-purging-craming. Today I found out that to my surprise, I totally blank out when people talk about stuff that we learned in first quarter, in a class that I did really well in....
So my question to all the upperclassmen and residents: how do you recoup all this information for board? I am planning to do a condensed review (using board material, not our slides) during the Summer, on the subjects that we learned already. Would this be helpful in preparing for 2nd year/board?
Thank you so much for your input!
I'm a first year who is about to become a 2nd year! I am happy that we're almost 50% done with didactic, but what worries me is that how am I supposed to retain all this huge amount of info (and I am not even counting 2nd year yet!) for board?! I am currently doing well, but our schedule is overloaded with exams (~2/week, every week) that I feel I am constantly purging-craming-purging-craming. Today I found out that to my surprise, I totally blank out when people talk about stuff that we learned in first quarter, in a class that I did really well in....
So my question to all the upperclassmen and residents: how do you recoup all this information for board? I am planning to do a condensed review (using board material, not our slides) during the Summer, on the subjects that we learned already. Would this be helpful in preparing for 2nd year/board?
Thank you so much for your input!