How exactly do you study/memorize FA during dedicated period?

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I see a lot of posts saying they'll cover a section of First Aid in 1-3 days and keep doing that during their dedicated period. How did you retain all that information, especially when you have to make time every day for Pathoma or RR + QBank? Do you just read a page once slowly, then keep going? Reread pages in the same day? Save x amount hrs per day for FA, x amount hrs for path, x amount for questions in one day? I feel like I won't even be able to remember what was 5 pages back the next day.

 

[FutureDO2016]

I have the same problem of retaining what I read and forgetting the next week...

 

[aspiringmd1015]

cant memorize FA. you have to know concepts, and then only will you be able to understand from FA, FA is a skeleton, you beef it up with your concepts and uworld explanations and other sources

 

[pathologyDO]

I have to supplement to get it to stick. Pathoma + Kaplan videos + BRS Physio helps me to remember concepts. Just started listening to Goljan too and I gotta say, he probably has gotten me as many questions right on my Qbanks as Pathoma has... YMMV

 

[pre med 2014]

but after you do your base using UW + kaplan videos or whatever you use how do you memorize FA then? I haven't been annotating it cause I been making notes in kaplan lecture books as I go along with the videos and making notecards out of UW and kaplan material.

I worried I'm just going to start passively skimming FA, on the other hand I also don't feel like making notecards out of the entire FA either since I already made 1000+ notecards most of which contain info that's in FA. Should I just make cards of stuff I am weak on or haven't touched on, or should I highlight then rehearse each page? Or flip USMLE Rx notecards on the FA?

 

[MudPhud20XX]

I just started using DIT and find it very useful to go over FA. I would recommend DIT.

 

[pre med 2014]

^ yea but how do you review the actual FA for maximal retention, highlight and recite? Or highlight and make notecards on top of that? I find it may be passive to recite right after you see all the answers right there, so I'm scared the information won't stick since you're just looking at all the answers right there and it's hard to know if you'll forget it all in a weeks time.

My other question is how long is going to take me to memorize all of FA if I haven't looked at it yet? I made a mistake of not going through it along with my kaplan videos and UW Qbank. However, this may actually benefit me in a way cause I forgot all the material I studied months ago, but since I studied it deep my reasoning is that going over FA should click quite quickly now that I have a pretty solid base.

I couldn't even look at it before I had a base because everything was pretty much foreign with no underlying explanations.

 

[Postictal Raiden]

In my opinion, the best and fastest way to memorize FA is by doing USMLE Rx qs and making sure to review the explanations and read the FA excerpts they include.

 

[Auvelity]

this is the only guide I have found useful so far http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...-my-guide-to-score-220-230-on-step-1.1160828/