how to watch lectures from home

[addy]

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How does studying from home actually work for those who have found it helpful?

I guess my question is, I don't understand the schedule---If I get to school at 8 AM, I won't be able to watch the lectures because the lectures aren't uploaded until 1-2PM anyways. So what do you guys in the meantime? Having said that, are you guys behind a day all the time due to this lag? If someone could post their appx daily schedule with not attending lectures, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Thanks

 

[zenman]

How does studying from home actually work for those who have found it helpful?

I guess my question is, I don't understand the schedule---If I get to school at 8 AM, I won't be able to watch the lectures because the lectures aren't uploaded until 1-2PM anyways. So what do you guys in the meantime? Having said that, are you guys behind a day all the time due to this lag? If someone could post their appx daily schedule with not attending lectures, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Thanks

Read material beforehand. Attend lecture. Then watch lecture at home. By now you've covered the material 3 times and should be good.

 

[NickNaylor]

Step 1: use lectures only as a guide for what material you need to learn
Step 2: get books that cover that material
Step 3: ?????
Step 4: profit with your new-found free time

I don't know how other schools work, but ours is nice in that the recording system uploads both a copy of the Powerpoint used in the lecture and the recording itself. Both are uploaded as soon as the recording is stopped, meaning the materials are available usually within an hour barring any problems. That would suck to be a day behind constantly, but who cares if you're learning the material.

 

[evilbooyaa]

Doesn't really matter if you're a day behind. As long as you catch up before the test rolls around, you'll be just fine.

 

[Lys Ile Glu Leu]

Step 1: use lectures only as a guide for what material you need to learn
Step 2: get books that cover that material
Step 3: ?????
Step 4: profit with your new-found free time

Nicely put. Lold

 

[JABWS]

Normally I read in the morning, and then stream the day's lectures in the afternoon/evening at 1.5x. Occasionally I'll choose to watch the lectures first, and then read the following day. I'm usually always slightly behind by default, but in terms of test preparation, I think I probably stay ahead of most of my class-going colleagues because I have more time to read/digest the material, rather than sitting in class. A lot of the students I know who attend class pre-read, but it's typically at a brisk pace and only for the purpose of preparing to listen to the lecture. With streaming, I'm able to do a more earnest first read through and I find it easier to nail down the material for exams.

When you're thinking about "being behind", try to keep in mind that this is really a relative idea. Someone may be behind, as in they haven't read and/or listened to all of the lectures, but if they've been spending quality time with other material, stuff that's going to be tested, then they may actually be ahead of the person who pre-reads and attends lecture faithfully when it comes to test preparation.

As for what I do in the meantime, well that's the beauty of streaming. Cutting out an hour commute and at least 20 minutes from every lecture gives me loads of free time during the day to do just about anything I want.

 

[addy]

Normally I read in the morning, and then stream the day's lectures in the afternoon/evening at 1.5x. Occasionally I'll choose to watch the lectures first, and then read the following day. I'm usually always slightly behind by default, but in terms of test preparation, I think I probably stay ahead of most of my class-going colleagues because I have more time to read/digest the material, rather than sitting in class. A lot of the students I know who attend class pre-read, but it's typically at a brisk pace and only for the purpose of preparing to listen to the lecture. With streaming, I'm able to do a more earnest first read through and I find it easier to nail down the material for exams.

When you're thinking about "being behind", try to keep in mind that this is really a relative idea. Someone may be behind, as in they haven't read and/or listened to all of the lectures, but if they've been spending quality time with other material, stuff that's going to be tested, then they may actually be ahead of the person who pre-reads and attends lecture faithfully when it comes to test preparation.

As for what I do in the meantime, well that's the beauty of streaming. Cutting out an hour commute and at least 20 minutes from every lecture gives me loads of free time during the day to do just about anything I want.

This is perfect, thank you!

 

[LiamNeesons]

Normally I read in the morning, and then stream the day's lectures in the afternoon/evening at 1.5x. Occasionally I'll choose to watch the lectures first, and then read the following day. I'm usually always slightly behind by default, but in terms of test preparation, I think I probably stay ahead of most of my class-going colleagues because I have more time to read/digest the material, rather than sitting in class. A lot of the students I know who attend class pre-read, but it's typically at a brisk pace and only for the purpose of preparing to listen to the lecture. With streaming, I'm able to do a more earnest first read through and I find it easier to nail down the material for exams.

When you're thinking about "being behind", try to keep in mind that this is really a relative idea. Someone may be behind, as in they haven't read and/or listened to all of the lectures, but if they've been spending quality time with other material, stuff that's going to be tested, then they may actually be ahead of the person who pre-reads and attends lecture faithfully when it comes to test preparation.

As for what I do in the meantime, well that's the beauty of streaming. Cutting out an hour commute and at least 20 minutes from every lecture gives me loads of free time during the day to do just about anything I want.

This sounds great. Do you rewrite notes, work practice problems, etc. on weekends?

 

[Kevin Baker]

How does studying from home actually work for those who have found it helpful?

I guess my question is, I don't understand the schedule---If I get to school at 8 AM, I won't be able to watch the lectures because the lectures aren't uploaded until 1-2PM anyways. So what do you guys in the meantime? Having said that, are you guys behind a day all the time due to this lag? If someone could post their appx daily schedule with not attending lectures, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Thanks

I've adjusted my schedule so I'll review yesterday's stuff in the morning, or preview that days stuff/watch the relevant pathoma or other non school lecture, then watch the lectures when they get posted. It makes you half a day behind but you catch up on lecture by the end of the day and you catch up on review by the next day.

 

[calvnandhobbs68]

I've adjusted my schedule so I'll review yesterday's stuff in the morning, or preview that days stuff/watch the relevant pathoma or other non school lecture, then watch the lectures when they get posted. It makes you half a day behind but you catch up on lecture by the end of the day and you catch up on review by the next day.

Yeah I was usually about a day behind during class although the videos were usually uploaded sometimes the same day. It just depends on how good your school uploading service is. Also, if you have the videos from last year (we have videos going back the last few years) you can always just watch those if you're afraid about falling behind. In my experience, lecturers don't like to change things up too much between years (as in they mostly just replace 2012 with 2013 on their PP).

 

[JABWS]

This sounds great. Do you rewrite notes, work practice problems, etc. on weekends?

Yeah, I mix in a fair amount of supplementary stuff as needed. It doesn't necessarily have to be the weekend for me to do things other than reading/streaming, though. By this point in the year, I have a pretty good idea of what it takes to prepare for an exam. I just go about doing it on my own schedule, rather than working around a heavy class load.

I should add that I do very well on exams. A lot of people naturally associate "skipping class" with lower performance, but in my experience, I've found the opposite to be true. I really do have more time to spend with the material. In fact, we recently had a meeting where AOA members offered tips and advice for MS1/MS2s. I'd say about half of those who represented AOA in the meeting streamed the lectures, which goes to show you that either approach can be effective.

 

[beatsbydre]

Be comfortable with being a day or two behind. The truth is that you actually benefit from being a day or two behind the lectures. Faculty makes mistakes, material are sometimes badly taught. While all your other classmates figure out and trouble-shoot everything, you can spend that time reviewing old materials. I actually love it when I get to the lecture and realize people have already commented on it through facebook, message board, etc.

 

[rocketbooster]

My lectures were 9-12 am. The powerpoints were already always there from day 1 of the module and the podcatsts appeared about 20-25 min after they were recorded. So, I was able to start podcasting at 10:15-10:20ish everyday. The final podcast was uploaded by 12:15 so I could easily have all the lectures done by 1:00 since I listened to them at 1.5-2x. Before 10:15, I would either sleep in or do some studying from the day before.

Many times I was lazy and didn't actually start podcasting very early plus had lab at 1:00 which kept me from getting the last one done. So, most mornings I still had something to study from earlier in the week.

As for prereading goes, I don't know what these SDNers are talking about. No prereading is ever necessary for the 1st 2 years of med school and rarely are outside materials necessary period. It's all in the powerpoints/lectures. 2-3 podcasting, 3-6 hours studying those lectures, done for the day. That's how most days should go up until test week. Of course you'll have a few labs, which only take 1-2 hours, per week throw in there too...

 

[zherussianbear]

I think this mostly depends on the lecturer and what he/she is stressing for on tests, but even more so, what you want out of your education.

At first, I wanted to really know what I was studying, so I did all of the textbook reading and focused on getting that down very well, but I noticed my grades were pretty average.

Then, I started just watching the recordings a few days before tests and my grades shot up, but I can't say that I really know that material nearly as well.

Now, I'm doing a little bit of both, the latter only for test grades, because I don't really feel that I'm LEARNING in that manner.

So, what I would say, from pure anecdote, is: if you care mostly about your grades, watch the recordings closer to tests so that the info stays fresh with all the little details. If you want to really learn things, you will probably need to sacrifice a little bit of test grades, and if you want both, kiss your free time goodbye. Nonetheless, the latter seems optimal for being a good doc: Read Read Read, listen to lecture before tests.

 

[Donald Juan]

My school puts the lectures up hour by hour. So, that means that the 8-9am lecture is up usually by 9:15 in the morning. Either way, I don't think there should be any worry about being a day behind if your school doesn't post them until the afternoon. I would imagine that only on the first day or two of a test block would any medical student be sitting around for 3 hours with nothing to study.

As far as going through the lectures, I do listen to them at 1.5X speed, but it probably takes me just as long if not longer to get through the lectures because I pause a lot to make note cards or go look up references if there is something I don't understand. At first I was listening to them at like 2X and just trying to pay attention, but I realized that even though I was breezing through lecture in half the time, I wasn't retaining anything.

 

[JABWS]

1.5x is generally completely reasonable, but 2x is definitely pushing it.

I guess I'm lucky in that we have syllabi which closely align with the lectures, so I never have to choose between focusing on lectures vs. reading, because they're the same thing, only in a different format. Even so, I feel the lectures are helpful and do add to what's written, which is why I often listen to the lectures first, because it really augments my reading.

 

[firedoc14]

http://youtu.be/tO5sxLapAts

Awesome reference Nick.

 

[tantacles]

So here we go. Everyone yell at me for being lazy in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

In the mornings before lectures are posted, I sleep. I'm not sure why everyone is waking up to pre-read. I take an extremely relaxed approach during the school year (at least this year) and just try to pass everything, mainly because I want to start studying for step I in the summer.

Things will be a little bit different for me next year because everything will be relevant for step I (I'm an M1 right now), but we'll have less time we have to spend at school (no anatomy lab! Woo hoo!). I plan to keep a similar schedule but study more.

Medical school, for me, is all about pacing. And I'm a lazy son of a bitch who loves his leisure time.

 

[FulfilledDeer]

Okay...

I sleep. Like above, MS-1 but I'm actually in "year 2" since I have 1.5 pre-clinical. I'm used to 2x speed by now (it's fun when you can increase the speed - you're leveling up!). Anyway, I sleep in, get up, work out, then watch lecture. If I have something clinical in the afternoon watching lecture gets postponed until the evening. Nothing really groundbreaking here. I do tend to be 1-2 days behind, which is almost never a problem. Keeping up actually takes more time than being behind for some reason. Also, if you have a trustworthy friend, knowing which lectures to skip is golden.

BUT, and this is the most important thing, you have to focus. Really, really focus. That's the benefit of watching lectures when you're not battling falling asleep, so take advantage of it!

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[Morsetlis]

You have to have extreme focus at 2x speed.

And it doesn't work so well for Pathophys :|