Lessons from I Yr

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[gostudy]

3) If you are sleep deprived, skip class.

Quoted for truth. As far as 1st year goes, class is overrated and sleep is underrated.

 

[gostudy]

Probably my only piece of advice is not to get involved with someone in your class, lest you want the entire class to know the ins and outs of your relationship.

 

[MSKalltheway]

1. Memorize .ppt slide. No one cares if you understand. If it's memorized, you understand it.

2. Med school is like high school.

3. I love it! Not the high school aspect, but the education.

👍 Took the words right out of my mouth.

Also...

1. Med school is all about whether or not you have every little detail memorized so that you dont get a lot wrong on those 50 question exams you studied so much for. Really, you dont get a lot of questions for the amount of material you have to know...

2. Spend time with your material, and lots of it!

3. Group study is HUGE.

4. Shadow as much as you can, it actually helps you reinforce quite a bit of what you learned, and helps you stay into medicine.

5. Friends/loved ones/sig others dont always understand that you may have to leave hanging out or convos until much, much later. Find a way to work around this. I just tell them "whatever, youll have to deal with it"

6. Find time to do things you enjoy.

*****7. DONT EVER force yourself to study more if you cant (except if you have an exam in the next few days) med school is a marathon, not a sprint.

 

[NCF145]

Originally Posted by MSKalltheway
med school is a marathon, not a sprint

I start school in the fall, and the only bit of advice that a resident gave me was that.

 

[BrownShuga]

damn. lol.

i guess i'm the minority here with understanding/memorizing.


guess in the end it all depends on what works for you

i also agree with powerpoint slides as a bad teaching method.

i add my voice to yrs when it comes to understanding then memorizing( its the way to go for me) and about the Power point STuff,, the only thing it teaches me is how to SNooZe FAster Each time 😛

 

[Fusion]

I swear, we are the same person...

Wow, so many ppl who share my sentiment! I seriously thought I was the only one after comlaining to my classmates how much powerpoint sucks to try to effectively learn from (and not getting all that many in agreement).

 

[rmorriso]

I've been complaining about instructors using powerpoint since high school... its a great way for instructors to regurgitate the text book pretty much verbatim or skate through preparation.

Some of the best professors I've ever had hardly ever used a text book to teach. While its a bit much to expect professors to contain an entire text book of knowledge in their heads, there is definitely something to teaching a class without using the book as a crutch. Makes concepts and key methodology more of a forefront, instead of hidden behind powerpoint bullet points.

 

[Aures]

those done with I yr...
What have you learnt from first year???

Nothing really except from the generalities from here and there.
I hardly passed my first, second and third year. Now I'm struggling with my fourth.
Medical studies suck. 😛

 

[spospo]

i can't say anything about med school powerpoints, but unlike most of you here, i don't really mind them that much. no, i don't find a lecture given entirely from powerpoint to be exciting or anything, but i like having the slides to work from later on. any notes i have - pp slides, hand written, typed - i like to write in the margins. helps me learn. so no, i don't think powerpoint is the best way to present the material every single time, but i don't really mind it. we will see if that opinion continues

 

[LifetimeDoc]

It's not powerpoint's fault. Before video projectors were in every university lecture hall, we had overhead projectors. Professors would order the set of slides from the book publisher (like they now order PPTs from the publisher) and just display them on the screen. Or, they would simply photocopy the book onto the slides in glorious 300 dpi BW photocopy.

Probably the only thing that PPT allows is for the professor to tweak the book's slides just enough to make them look like they did some work, but alas it's still the book.

It's the professor's fault that they didn't take the time to make their own PPT slides with their own material gleaned from sources other than just the textbook. PPT is a tool.

 

[Dr2Bee]

I guess i am the few that love powerpoints. 😀 One major downside about powerpoints is lecturers tend to go at a faster pace...but I guess that is to be expected in medical courses.

Anyone just using the powerpoints to learn the material is a no-no. At my institution, since you can view the ppt before class. I would print them out and take notes on them in class (plus in a sense, its less note-taking)...it works well. Couple with reading the class syllabus and you should be all set.

 

[peace zealot]

i m a 2nd yr student.from my experience uptill now i hv learnt thato whatever u can it ll never gonna help.......(before every test tension can never be controlled whtever i do so i hv learned to take it a normal thing)
1.well understanding first n then memorizing is not abad idea.
2.learned to organize my time n stuff for study
3.remain cool to get more out of a little time,panic ll ruin all😎