How to annotate First Aid/avoid over-annotating.

[mopitup85]

Just got my brand new 2015 version of First Aid, so I can start studying for boards.
Any recommendations on how to annotate or what to highlight and take notes on.

Right now my plan is going to be to highlight things that were USMLE world qbank concepts and to annotate based on the extra information I get from the DIT part 2 videos.

Any advice is appreciated. I'm definitely one of those types that sometimes ends up highlighting everything.

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[PL198]

Just got my brand new 2015 version of First Aid, so I can start studying for boards.
Any recommendations on how to annotate or what to highlight and take notes on.

Right now my plan is going to be to highlight things that were USMLE world qbank concepts and to annotate based on the extra information I get from the DIT part 2 videos.

Any advice is appreciated. I'm definitely one of those types that sometimes ends up highlighting everything.

yeah so the main thing is going to be to not do that

 

[mopitup85]

well any good advice?
can anyone share what they do?

 

[Transposony]

Use a pencil and revise the annotations every time you have a go at FA.
Some people use the PDF with PDF XChange viewer to type and copy/paste various pictures etc.

 

[Jabbed]

Haven't taken Step yet.

Don't bother highlighting anything. You highlight things that are important/high yield. Everything in first aid is important/high yield. As far as annotations go, the prevailing wisdom is that pathoma and Uworld are really the only sources that are worth annotating in. Everything else is "low yield".

 

[lovemango]

For my first pass thru First Aid, I've been reading the section in First Aid, then looking over the same topics in Goljan Rapid Review and BRS Physio (and sometimes the big Costanzo Physio). If there's a concept that I want to annotate so I understand it better or there's great extra info from one of those sources, I add the info on a post-it note and stick it on the same page. That way, if the info turns out to be low yield later based on Uworld or I have the concept down and don't need the extra explanation anymore, I can just take the post it out.

 

[Wavy Doctor]

I would ask myself the question: what HY facts/concepts that are NOT in FA do I have to annotate to be able to learn/remember them.

really there shouldn't be too many but maybe I'm just rationalizing my own choice not to annotate