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Hey everyone,
I've been a lurker for about 1 year now and just want to start off with a thanks to all of you who take the time to post your opinions, ideas, and advice. For those of you say tl;dr I've bolded my main concerns.
Sooo, I am currently finding myself unable to adjust to a P/F Problem Based Learning (PBL)-type curriculum. We have about ~2hrs of lecture for every ~2hrs spent in PBL to cover some of the details. As with most schools, lecturer styles vary, with some sucking and others being great.The goal of these PBLs, to me at least, is to connect some common diseases with the basic sciences. However, there is no clear outline of what I need to actually study. FA2013 is nice to have open and follow to see whats important, but I need the context too. They try to "standardize" the information all PBL groups get by giving us learning objectives (LOs) after we've come up with our own. I do not understand how in-depth I need to go on a topic. We have one exam at the end of ~14 weeks that covers around 20+ PBL cases and around 80+ lectures. How can I gauge my progress?
With that said, I make Anki cards with 30-60 cards/lecture, probably too many. However, I started this late in the game. Everything I made cards for, I know really well. The cards I make from highly regarded review books I know much better than the ones from lectures. However, it takes me forever to outline and make cards for the review books, i.e. Lippincott's Biochem, which I feel is necessary since PBL does not facilitate learning the basic sciences (IMO). Should I concentrate on lecture notes (50% are crap) or just read all the respected review books on the topic and learn from those, making Anki cards for them instead? I do not want to fail my exam after having blown anatomy out of the park with ~94% average. Maybe this is because the course was on one basic science topic and not 4+ like PBL?!
Anki seems to be working for me, but GT/Firecracker has the same idea with premade cards. How can I combine Anki and FC to maximize learning? Should I just gloss over the class notes and focus on giving myself a strong basic science background in prep for year 2?
Thanks for reading this long post! Any genuine feedback or trolling (for laughs) is appreciated.
I've been a lurker for about 1 year now and just want to start off with a thanks to all of you who take the time to post your opinions, ideas, and advice. For those of you say tl;dr I've bolded my main concerns.
Sooo, I am currently finding myself unable to adjust to a P/F Problem Based Learning (PBL)-type curriculum. We have about ~2hrs of lecture for every ~2hrs spent in PBL to cover some of the details. As with most schools, lecturer styles vary, with some sucking and others being great.The goal of these PBLs, to me at least, is to connect some common diseases with the basic sciences. However, there is no clear outline of what I need to actually study. FA2013 is nice to have open and follow to see whats important, but I need the context too. They try to "standardize" the information all PBL groups get by giving us learning objectives (LOs) after we've come up with our own. I do not understand how in-depth I need to go on a topic. We have one exam at the end of ~14 weeks that covers around 20+ PBL cases and around 80+ lectures. How can I gauge my progress?
With that said, I make Anki cards with 30-60 cards/lecture, probably too many. However, I started this late in the game. Everything I made cards for, I know really well. The cards I make from highly regarded review books I know much better than the ones from lectures. However, it takes me forever to outline and make cards for the review books, i.e. Lippincott's Biochem, which I feel is necessary since PBL does not facilitate learning the basic sciences (IMO). Should I concentrate on lecture notes (50% are crap) or just read all the respected review books on the topic and learn from those, making Anki cards for them instead? I do not want to fail my exam after having blown anatomy out of the park with ~94% average. Maybe this is because the course was on one basic science topic and not 4+ like PBL?!
Anki seems to be working for me, but GT/Firecracker has the same idea with premade cards. How can I combine Anki and FC to maximize learning? Should I just gloss over the class notes and focus on giving myself a strong basic science background in prep for year 2?
Thanks for reading this long post! Any genuine feedback or trolling (for laughs) is appreciated.
