Med students: undergrad notes worth keeping?

[cj_cregg]

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[Kochanie]

I burn my notes as soon as finals are over.

 

[ewax]

No. Most med schools give out a notes packet/post notes online for each unit. Those plus board review resources should be more than enough.

 

[FutureOncologist]

Hell no.

 

[thebritishsquid]

I actually found some of the biochemistry notes/ anatomy notes I had from undergrad to be good reference materials, but there are more than enough resources available!

 

[ace12345]

Yeah if you want to be shocked when you've finished the entire undergrad class by week 2

 

[Doctor Strange]

lol god no

 

[Lord Osis]

I keep them just to decorate my bookshelves. Major headache each time I get to move, though..

 

[Promethean]

Ditching my notepile is always a cherished moment at the end of each final exam.

The handwriting is too illegible for me to pass them along to anyone else anyhow, and I use a destructive form of studying. I start marking up the pages to indicate that they were reviewed in that pass through, so that I can keep track of my progress through them. So, by the time I've gone through them a time or two, there is nothing worth saving.

 

[GomersGoToGround]

No.

 

[poopsicle]

Problem with med school is, there's a wealth of resources to study from. I trashed all my notes from undergrad.

 

[IncognitoGuy]

No. Chances are your notes don't cover things the way medical school does.

 

[Psai]

I don't even look at my notes from the preclinical years. Recycle those papers

 

[FalconSlice]

Looking for input from some current medical students.

Are there any undergrad courses you took for which the notes or textbooks are worth keeping for med school?

I know med school will go into much greater depth and focus more on clinical applications, so it would probably just be useful for a very general refresher.

Most of the threads on this topic are more than a few years old and have mixed opinions, so I thought a fresh one might be useful. Thanks for your input 🙂

I don't (and I don't think anyone else) use those notes. But I don't throw them away or burn them because they're like a piece of my 4 year past. Also, surprisingly, I remember a lot of the stuff I learned when in undergrad (also, you paid for that education---so why would you want to throw all of your notes away/burn them?). Maybe I am just a pack-rat.

 

[CsHead]

I don't (and I don't think anyone else) use those notes. But I don't throw them away or burn them because they're like a piece of my 4 year past. Also, surprisingly, I remember a lot of the stuff I learned when in undergrad (also, you paid for that education---so why would you want to throw all of your notes away/burn them?). Maybe I am just a pack-rat.

I sometimes hoard...

I don't even look at my notes from the preclinical years. Recycle those papers

but this.. so much this.

 

[iniquus]

Did you keep your middle school notes for college?

 

[Conflagration]

Did you keep your middle school notes for college?

I'm going to be the idiot that asks this, but is it really that drastic a disparity?

 

[iniquus]

I'm going to be the idiot that asks this, but is it really that drastic a disparity?

The point is that the classes are going to be very different than what you took in college. Even a class like biochemistry will have a completely different focus in medical school when compared to undergraduate. Even among undergraduate colleges, biochemistry varies from professor to professor. Not to mention the pace is a lot faster in medical school that sifting through your undergraduate notes is a very poor use of your time.

Almost always you will be referencing a review book, wikipedia, or google when something is unclear.

 

[Conflagration]

The point is that the classes are going to be very different than what you took in college. Even a class like biochemistry will have a completely different focus in medical school when compared to undergraduate. Even among undergraduate colleges, biochemistry varies from professor to professor. Not to mention the pace is a lot faster in medical school that sifting through your undergraduate notes is a very poor use of your time.

Almost always you will be referencing a review book, wikipedia, or google when something is unclear.

Ah, thanks for the clarification! Good luck in medical school. 🙂

 

[AlteredScale]

My undergrad pharmacology and endocrinology courses used "Langes basic and clinical endocrinology" and "Langes blah blah pharm" as the textbooks. Barely used them. And advice from current med students has been that you barely use them in med school too.

 

[FFH]

Are there love poems you wrote for that girl in your class written on the side? If no, then don't keep the notes, if yes, still don't keep the notes.

 

[Styrene]

Am I the only one that never took notes?

 

[godawg300]

Am I the only one that never took notes?

I'm with you on this. Idk if this is gonna bite me in the Butt but I never really took notes, just listened.

 

[allantois]

I'm with you on this. Idk if this is gonna bite me in the Butt but I never really took notes, just listened.

I think people not only mean lecture notes but also book notes, and whatever else you wrote down to study for class.
As for lecture notes, I never take them either.

 

[godawg300]

I think people not only mean lecture notes but also book notes, and whatever else you wrote down to study for class.
As for lecture notes, I never take them either.

Nah. No way people wrote down nothing at all. That's absurd.