Step I Most efficient way to annotate FA...

[t2oo5]

What's the best/most efficient way to annotate FA during first two years of med school?... There doesn't seem to be a lot of space to take notes on the pages. Have people found the given space sufficient?

 

[lord_jeebus]

Before adding a fact, ask yourself, if I was a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners, would I care enough about this fact to write a USMLE question about it?

 

[wAyRadikull]

People normally rip the binding and stick it in a 3-ring binder in order to add pages/notes accordingly. I personally hate that idea, so I only annotate from UW, everything else I just read from the direct source.

However, the very thought of annotating DURING your first 2 years of medical school is giving me palpitations. You will already be on an extreme time crunch that finding an extra 5-6 hours during the week would be better spent hanging out/sleeping etc. But I guess to each their own.

Typically most people start around January of the year they will be taking the test in. That way you have the freshest FA. I would try and get an old FA from a friend, just to read along class, and then buy the new one come step 1 time.

 

[McGillGrad]

Since no medical student has any idea what is important when he begins medical school, you do not want to annotate anything until after first year.

 

[DrBowtie]

I've just been doing UW notes and Goljan RR blue margin notes. Anything more than that and it would get too cluttered and not be a useful source as a high yield book.

 

[Torquer]

I know this guy who added notes of encouragement at random places in his bound FA
like he'd be going through GI patho and he'd flip a page and there it was staring up at him:
"Almost there ricky!"

 

[netminder]

I've just been doing UW notes and Goljan RR blue margin notes. Anything more than that and it would get too cluttered and not be a useful source as a high yield book.

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[jasonboy18]

agreed.