is it worth it to keep material from MS1?

[chajjohnson]

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Hey Everyone,

So I have all of my notes and lectures from MS1 fall semester on my laptop, but they are taking up almost all of the room on my hard drive. Transferring these notes would be kind of a hassle, so i'm wondering if its worth it to keep them around. Specifically I took biochem, histology, anatomy, genetics, and embryo. Will I ever need to use this stuff for future classes?

 

[Frazier]

No.

I would keep it as a $50,000 souvenir on a $40 external drive.

 

[stepone2015]

I can't imagine ever needing it. There are way better review materials out there, and for everything else, there is Wikipedia/Up To Date/the internet.

 

[WhippleWhileWeWork]

You paid 40-60k for that ****. You can afford to back it up.

 

[Pacna]

Important **** is logged in Anki. The rest is stored as reference material on OneNote + Drawboard. Not sure if physical copies were ever distributed.

 

[pre med 2014]

How old is your computer? What do you have every MS1 lecture in 4K HD that's it's taking up all your space? It should be well under a gig for your docs

 

[pathologyDO]

I bought an $80 1TB external during M1 year that I transfer my PowerPoint slides to from Dropbox each section. Easy and if I ever wanna reminisce or something it's there. Better safe than sorry they say

 

[Psai]

Put it on dropbox but you probably won't look at it ever again

 

[giantswing]

I use my old notes as litter.

 

[Nasrudin]

I kept my anatomy book. There it is. A perfectly good dust collector.

 

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

Get a WD My Cloud 1 or 2 TB external HD ($100-150), transfer your notes and be done with them. You likely won't need them, but you'll have peace of mind if you're the type that has a hard time letting go of crap, because that's basically what they are now.

All my hard copy one-sided lecture notes have been converted to target practice paper for the range.

 

[CardiacIntensivist]

No. I was extremely meticulous all 4 years of medical school. I kept beautiful notes during ms1 and 2 because i thought i would reference them to study later. NOPE!!! When reviewing for Step 1 I used review books and Dr. Wikipedia. I didnt even think about my non clinical year notes during 3rd and 4th year. I only remembered them when it was time to move out of my med school apt. I had plenty of paper to use as packing cushions for my boxes at least!!!

My advice, keep any nice outlines and diagrams you cant find anywhere else. Trash the rest. Keep notes for nostalgic reasons, you won't use them in any other way.

 

[Kahreek]

it does worth it, but burning them in the summer over a bonfire is also very cathartic.

 

[Ismet]

Nope! Trash it. I kept my anatomy syllabus because that thing was MY LIFE for the first 7 weeks of med school and I made some really nice drawings/diagrams in there. I'll never reference it, but whatever. I can look through it and wax nostalgic about the good old days. 😛

Deleted most useless pre-clin stuff (power points, lecture notes, etc) from my computer. Kept a small handful of study guides, some of which (EKG, murmurs, etc) I still reference.

 

[chronicidal]

manage your knowledge with anki. suspend cards you find low-yield, keep them in your database for searching. delete cards you discover to be inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading.

 

[saudades]

I burned First Aid in the barbecue after step 1, but I might have my old first year notes laying around. I've never looked at them. Kept my textbooks though.

 

[Armadillos]

Agree wih above, a cache of useless preclinical binders is a nightmare to suddenly rediscover when your trying to move

 

[starstarie]

I'd keep them at least for second year... I'm using mine right now and I do have some pretty nice things that are coming in handy when reviewing for step. I guess for me having learned it a certain way a first time, when I'm trying to relearn it, it is easier to see it again in the same way. After this year I doubt I'll use them tho.

There really isn't a reason not to get an external and keep them all tho. Heck I just gave some old notes from undergrad in 2006 to some kid recently. Ya never know!

 

[da8s0859q]

I have everything -- all slide PDFs and my homebrewed review sheets -- from all four years of medical school sitting on my laptop. Am an EM PGY-2 now.

Number of times I resorted to previous years' notes as a med student, total: less than ten.

Number of times I resorted to med school notes as a resident: zero.

As was mentioned, it's a nice souvenir.

 

[JP2740]

I would not throw anything away until after Step 1. No reason to.