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aklark

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Any podcast recommendations for an MS1 commute?

Goljan and Pathoma seem like they won't be helpful until MS2, but I'd like to do something useful during the drive first year.
 
I had a 30 minute commute to campus and I dabbled with lectures, pathoma, goljan, as well as youtube videos of the kaplan lecture series. I honestly got nothing out of pathoma, school lectures, or youtube videos, NOTHING. Most of that material it helps to visualize stuff and the lectures are so dry that I zoned out of 15 minutes. Goljan on the other hand is fantastic, good talker, and kept things interesting, easy, and light. Once I got through his lectures once, I gave up and used that time for XM radio.
 
aklark said:
I was thinking most of these would require slides to make sense, but I might give it a try.
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If you've already heard the lectures/studied what's being lectured on, hearing them again will allow you to refer to the mental images you have, which will work for a good amount of first year material. I'm not sure how high or low yield this approach will be as I don't commute to school, but it probably can't hurt since you're stuck in a car for X amount of hours each week anyway.
 
sinombre said:
If you've already heard the lectures/studied what's being lectured on, hearing them again will allow you to refer to the mental images you have, which will work for a good amount of first year material. I'm not sure how high or low yield this approach will be as I don't commute to school, but it probably can't hurt since you're stuck in a car for X amount of hours each week anyway.
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I don't know about other med schools, but I don't think anything the Phds/mds/dos tout off at my school during the first 2 years are at all "high yield". It may be high yield for their exam but certainly not for boards or for clinic. In retrospect, I learned SOOOO much more studying for my step 1 exam than I did for block exams.

If you want to listen to something stick with goljan. He's funny, picks on IMGs, and is fairly light and absorbable.
 
Petypet said:
I don't know about other med schools, but I don't think anything the Phds/mds/dos tout off at my school during the first 2 years are at all "high yield". It may be high yield for their exam but certainly not for boards or for clinic. In retrospect, I learned SOOOO much more studying for my step 1 exam than I did for block exams.

If you want to listen to something stick with goljan. He's funny, picks on IMGs, and is fairly light and absorbable.
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Should have clarified... high yield for professor-specific questions on exams, not for boards. I'm a pretty firm believer that you can't really do anything to prepare for boards first year except 1) learn the material well and 2) learn how to study efficiently.
 
Petypet said:
I don't know about other med schools, but I don't think anything the Phds/mds/dos tout off at my school during the first 2 years are at all "high yield". It may be high yield for their exam but certainly not for boards or for clinic. In retrospect, I learned SOOOO much more studying for my step 1 exam than I did for block exams.

If you want to listen to something stick with goljan. He's funny, picks on IMGs, and is fairly light and absorbable.
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I think he meant high yield for in class. I believe Goljan pokes fun (in jest) at IMGs, bc those are the ones taking his board review classes in high numbers.
 
Richard Pryor. Seriously some of the best **** you can get and he has hours of material. Once you're done with him, George Carlin, Lewis Black, and damn near everyone else you can find.
 
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