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[abooodMD]

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Hey My friends,
Actually I dunno what to do, I mean I feel like I'm so numb and depressed after my first semester final exams results.
I'm a third year medical student, studying Pathology, Pharmacology, Immunology, Microbiology and Neurophysiology.
In my country the medical schools are different from those in US, anyway,
Our medical school recommends Robbins textbook for patho, Lippincott's reviews for Pharma, Lange reviews for Micro and I do study Neuro and immuno from our prof. powerpoint slides.
but I feel like it is so hard to manage my time to accommodate this big syllabi, and some exams' marks were really bad, and I want to be better at this second semester, so I need you to help me how to manage my time, how to study daily and how to study the nights of exams??

BTW, I'm not stupid or idiot, I mean I can sit and start studying, I can open Robbins and start studying the hematopoietic and lymph disorders, and found no difficulties, but the problem is in my will, so any advice would be valuable.

Thanks in advanced.

 

[silas2642]

Hey My friends,
Actually I dunno what to do, I mean I feel like I'm so numb and depressed after my first semester final exams results.
I'm a third year medical student, studying Pathology, Pharmacology, Immunology, Microbiology and Neurophysiology.
In my country the medical schools are different from those in US, anyway,
Our medical school recommends Robbins textbook for patho, Lippincott's reviews for Pharma, Lange reviews for Micro and I do study Neuro and immuno from our prof. powerpoint slides.
but I feel like it is so hard to manage my time to accommodate this big syllabi, and some exams' marks were really bad, and I want to be better at this second semester, so I need you to help me how to manage my time, how to study daily and how to study the nights of exams??

BTW, I'm not stupid or idiot, I mean I can sit and start studying, I can open Robbins and start studying the hematopoietic and lymph disorders, and found no difficulties, but the problem is in my will, so any advice would be valuable.

Thanks in advanced.

I don't use Robbins unless I need to. If your syllabi are well-written, then I'd just use that. Use Robbins and the recommended texts to supplement anything that you don't understand from your syllabi. There just isn't enough time to study from all these resources, so you kind of have to use them wisely. Even when I don't get the syllabus, I use Robbins as a background, then go back and read the syllabus to understand what the professor thinks is important-- usually by that point everything is clear.

 

[vtucci]

Aboood-

Golijan's Rapid Review is a nice concise review guide for many path topics. I read some chapters from Robbins but usually there is not enough time.

As for micro, try micro made ridiculously easy. Immuno- try high yield immuno.

Does your school have a mandatory class requirement? If not, you may need to skip class to learn at your own pace.

 

[abooodMD]

I don't use Robbins unless I need to. If your syllabi are well-written, then I'd just use that. Use Robbins and the recommended texts to supplement anything that you don't understand from your syllabi. There just isn't enough time to study from all these resources, so you kind of have to use them wisely. Even when I don't get the syllabus, I use Robbins as a background, then go back and read the syllabus to understand what the professor thinks is important-- usually by that point everything is clear.

Regarding Patho, our prof. only makes a powerpoint files of titles from Robbins and he does recoomend studying from this textbook, coz he really rely on this book, so I can't find any other source of studying and I don't know if any other review book could cover the whole information in Robbins but in more simple way and less than in amount.

 

[abooodMD]

Aboood-

Golijan's Rapid Review is a nice concise review guide for many path topics. I read some chapters from Robbins but usually there is not enough time.

As for micro, try micro made ridiculously easy. Immuno- try high yield immuno.

Does your school have a mandatory class requirement? If not, you may need to skip class to learn at your own pace.

Hey Veronica,

thanx for your advice, and if you really think that Golijan's could be used efficiently instead of Robbins, please send it if you have an electronic copy of it to my e-mail address which you have, I'll be very thankful.

Actaully I do miss some classes, but others such as Patho , micro and patho labs are importent.

Do you know what, I just wanna know hoe to study, when I study Pharma from lippincott's review book, should I study the whole 20 chapters from this book for the final exam ?? it's so hard to study them again in 3 days for final exam, so what should I do ? I mean you are expert and advanced in medical school, what were you doing? how could you manage?

and thanx again.

 

[vtucci]

It is hard to state regarding your final exams Aboood. We have shelf exams that we needed to take and they were standardized so I used USMLEWORLD (great for the questions).

I used Lippincott's for pharm when in class and had other resources for our final exam. I also liked DejaReview series and recall series (Pharm Recall, micro recall) for memorizing facts.

First Aid for Step I has a lot of information in the US first two years of medical school.

Do a search on the allopathic and step I forums for review sheets and see what you come up with. I believe there may be links for some resources.