How do I prevent "HORIZONTAL" studying...?

[BushBaby]

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I have a bunch of study books for MS1 and I was looking them over today. I seem to have about two books for each subject area. In terms of reading these books, how do I avoid jumping from one anatomy book (text or review) to the next trying to cover one silly topic, without making significant advancement vertically?

How do you juggle all these study materials when it comes to learning the material?

 

[omarsaleh66]

hi there

what helps me is to go general to specific. Looking at a review book, seeing a general outline first, get the big picture then its alot faster to read text and fill in the details. Personally this is the order i follow.

1. Lecture notes, scribes, u should print these out 2 per page, paraphrase the margins, cover this stuff atleast 3 times before teh test. Test Questions come from here.

2.First AID, Review books, questions, etc... reinforce what u learned in class with review books and integrate, etc.. whatever after ur lecture notes.

3. Text books, way too much reading, use this if u dont understand the first 2 things; use for reference, med school way too much volume to use text books for reading, this should be for reference IMO.