How many times you read to get it?

[alaaz]

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I was surfing this forum and looking for tipa about how to study and i have found that most of you guys need to read 3-5 times to "get it"

Do you mean that for every lecture you read a certain paragraph 3-5 times then move to the next paragraph ?

 

[deleted889094]

I was surfing this forum and looking for tipa about how to study and i have found that most of you guys need to read 3-5 times to "get it"

Do you mean that for every lecture you read a certain paragraph 3-5 times then move to the next paragraph ?

I'm thinking people mean they have to go over it 3-5 times but not back-to-back. Think Anki

 

[deleted1005514]

I was surfing this forum and looking for tipa about how to study and i have found that most of you guys need to read 3-5 times to "get it"

Do you mean that for every lecture you read a certain paragraph 3-5 times then move to the next paragraph ?

No, reading this way would defeat the purpose of reading to begin with. What you need is spaced repetition, for example:

1) pre-read before lecture (skim for the basic idea)
2) attend lecture and take notes (alternatively, use board resources or outside material)
3) go over notes and solidify concepts (the same day of lecture if possible)
4) practice some form of active recall and/or practice questions to identify weak spots in your knowledge (anki, qbanks, writing out pathways, etc) - a few days after lecture or over the weekend
5) use outside resources to clarify anything you still don’t understand (board resources, tutors, study groups, office hours, YouTube, etc) - after step 4
6) repeat 4 & 5 until you’re exam ready!

This gives you several “passes” of the material, but you’re not just sitting and reading passively. The combination of active recall and spaced repetition is what makes anki such a powerful learning tool.

 

[OrganRepo]

if you just sit there rereading the same bull**** over and over again you are never going to "get" anything.

 

[alaaz]

if you just sit there rereading the same bull**** over and over again you are never going to "get" anything.

Then how will i get it ?

 

[calivianya]

Then how will i get it ?

What worked for you in undergrad? I doubt you’ve changed your entire learning style just because you matriculated into med school, so use whatever your learning style is to your advantage.

Things that work best for me include making my own Anki decks based on what I’m watching/studying because it makes me turn the concept around in multiple different directions to determine how it could be asked. You miss that aspect using premade decks, but they’re still good if you’re short on time. Practice questions are always important, of course. And if something’s especially difficult, I like to teach it to other people - and if you don’t have people readily available, pets are always good listeners. Pretty sure my cat has at least an honorary master’s by now.

 

[sella.turcica]

What worked for you in undergrad? I doubt you’ve changed your entire learning style just because you matriculated into med school, so use whatever your learning style is to your advantage.

Things that work best for me include making my own Anki decks based on what I’m watching/studying because it makes me turn the concept around in multiple different directions to determine how it could be asked. You miss that aspect using premade decks, but they’re still good if you’re short on time. Practice questions are always important, of course. And if something’s especially difficult, I like to teach it to other people - and if you don’t have people readily available, pets are always good listeners. Pretty sure my cat has at least an honorary master’s by now.

Or an imaginary friend. But probably not healthy long term.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

What worked for you in undergrad? I doubt you’ve changed your entire learning style just because you matriculated into med school, so use whatever your learning style is to your advantage.

Things that work best for me include making my own Anki decks based on what I’m watching/studying because it makes me turn the concept around in multiple different directions to determine how it could be asked. You miss that aspect using premade decks, but they’re still good if you’re short on time. Practice questions are always important, of course. And if something’s especially difficult, I like to teach it to other people - and if you don’t have people readily available, pets are always good listeners. Pretty sure my cat has at least an honorary master’s by now.

My girls always thought histology slides were cool looking so I taught them about them. Helped me solidify it.

 

[alaaz]

What worked for you in undergrad? I doubt you’ve changed your entire learning style just because you matriculated into med school, so use whatever your learning style is to your advantage.

Things that work best for me include making my own Anki decks based on what I’m watching/studying because it makes me turn the concept around in multiple different directions to determine how it could be asked. You miss that aspect using premade decks, but they’re still good if you’re short on time. Practice questions are always important, of course. And if something’s especially difficult, I like to teach it to other people - and if you don’t have people readily available, pets are always good listeners. Pretty sure my cat has at least an honorary master’s by now.

Back in school i took
Math/physics/Biology/Philosophy/english/french/Computer Science/geography/history

Only geography,history,biology required memorisation and i was memorising my lessons word by word (by heart). In mee school i can't do that which is too time consuming

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Back in school i took
Math/physics/Biology/Philosophy/english/french/Computer Science/geography/history

Only geography,history,biology required memorisation and i was memorising my lessons word by word (by heart). In mee school i can't do that which is too time consuming

Download anki. Learn to love it. This is the way.

 

[Captain_Falcon]

Watch outside resource videos for the topics your school will be covering with their own lectures that week. (For example, if covering microbes that affect the pulmonary system watch all Sketchy videos pertaining to those organisms, watch Pathoma for other lung pathology, and Boards&Beyond for everything else you would need to know.)

Then, depending on if you like studying alone you can do Anking (premade deck of all high yield material that correlates with all the outside resource videos you watched) to reinforce. Then, Group Study and do practice questions


Reading things multiple times is never going to be efficient enough for one thing, let alone effective enough because it is far too passive. Same for highlighting text.

 

[deleted688779]

Somewhat related question regarding “getting it”, I utilized office hours HEAVILY during undergrad and used it as a time to pick the instructor’s brain. Are there office hours in med school and are they utilized differently?

 

[libertyyne]

I will not re-read anything. I will re-ask myself a question, and I will do it as many times as it takes thank god for anki and Damien Elmes.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Somewhat related question regarding “getting it”, I utilized office hours HEAVILY during undergrad and used it as a time to pick the instructor’s brain. Are there office hours in med school and are they utilized differently?

For the love of God please use the time after a lecture is over to ask questions or go see the prof later. Do not be the person that asks multiple questions, holding up the lecture.

 

[AnonymousDoctorGuyPerson]

For the love of God please use the time after a lecture is over to ask questions or go see the prof later. Do not be the person that asks multiple questions, holding up the lecture.

I just want to reiterate this. Outside of taking up other people's time with your question, it is very likely your professor will get to your question naturally as they continue their lecture. Also, sometimes you may have a question because you don't have the full picture yet, which you'll acquire and be able to connect back to as the lecture progresses.

Definitely utilize their office hours though if after the lecture (and careful review of the notes) you are still confused about something!

 

[Laradd]

Sometimes the paragraph is so complicated that we have read it more than once to get it.

 

[calivianya]

Sometimes the paragraph is so complicated that we have read it more than once to get it.

I would disagree with this logic. If something isn’t clicking for me, I switch resources. For example, I had some Ph.D professors In preclinicals explain things in the most complicated ways possible. Instead of re-reading the powerpoints or listening to the lecture again, I’d check Boards and Beyond, Lecturio, Dirty Medicine, or Pathoma to see if there was a better way to explain the subject that was more intuitive for me. Could I have powered through the lecture until I understood? Sure. But that might have taken an hour when I could have had the same concept click by watching a five minute YouTube video.

Work smarter, not harder. There’s always multiple places you can find the same information without re-reading something that’s not working/overly dense for you.

 

[Fatalis]

I was surfing this forum and looking for tipa about how to study and i have found that most of you guys need to read 3-5 times to "get it"

Do you mean that for every lecture you read a certain paragraph 3-5 times then move to the next paragraph ?

If you just read and re-read you will see how fast you fall behind/ not recall things. I made the lecture notes into mind maps/ concept maps; drawing them out and following it made me retain so much faster