problems with studying, need help and advice over getting over it

[ramajama2003]

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hi there, im a 4th year med student and i still havent found a way of finding a study routine that works for me, since april iv spent time studying the pathology of the GIT, yet when im asked a question on say crohns disease or describing ulcerative collitis i cant for the best part describe whats going on, i mean u wouldnt believe the quality of time i spend learning something and over the course of 2 or 3 days the informartion leaves my head and when i look at the material again its like im reading it for the first time, im really scared and i feel that iv made the wrong career move its really hard for me and i dont know how to over come this

 

[ACSurgeon]

hi there, im a 4th year med student and i still havent found a way of finding a study routine that works for me, since april iv spent time studying the pathology of the GIT, yet when im asked a question on say crohns disease or describing ulcerative collitis i cant for the best part describe whats going on, i mean u wouldnt believe the quality of time i spend learning something and over the course of 2 or 3 days the informartion leaves my head and when i look at the material again its like im reading it for the first time, im really scared and i feel that iv made the wrong career move its really hard for me and i dont know how to over come this

I doubt you could have made it this far without having the brains AND foundation to sustain you. My thoughts:

1) You might be holding yourself to an extremely high standard, where you feel like you "know nothing" if you don't know EVERYTHING.
OR
2) You've been studying for exams ONLY. That is, you memorize a bunch of info just for a given an exam, and never try to integrate that material or internalize it. Whenever reading about a disease process, try to imagine it, reflect upon what you read. Make it part of your knowledge base, etc.

 

[ramajama2003]

I doubt you could have made it this far without having the brains AND foundation to sustain you. My thoughts:

1) You might be holding yourself to an extremely high standard, where you feel like you "know nothing" if you don't know EVERYTHING.
OR
2) You've been studying for exams ONLY. That is, you memorize a bunch of info just for a given an exam, and never try to integrate that material or internalize it. Whenever reading about a disease process, try to imagine it, reflect upon what you read. Make it part of your knowledge base, etc.

the problem is at medical school the main exams are oral based, i got asked a question on metabolic disorders of the liver, and so i talked about creglar naggar type 1 and 2, alberts syndrome and dubin johnson, they them asked me to describe the morphology and i was like wtfiv spent ages studying on this **** and i get asked a question on the pathological morphology of some1 with creglar nagar syndrome

 

[Hoya2009]

hi there, im a 4th year med student and i still havent found a way of finding a study routine that works for me, since april iv spent time studying the pathology of the GIT, yet when im asked a question on say crohns disease or describing ulcerative collitis i cant for the best part describe whats going on, i mean u wouldnt believe the quality of time i spend learning something and over the course of 2 or 3 days the informartion leaves my head and when i look at the material again its like im reading it for the first time, im really scared and i feel that iv made the wrong career move its really hard for me and i dont know how to over come this

Do you microinject NBQX during/after studying?

But man, if you made it to 4th year, how did you make it if you can't remember things past three days?

 

[bruinhd]

agree with the people above. you're psychin yourself out. take more frequent breaks when studying to digest information. Make them shorter or whatever, but make sure you put gaps in your learning at appropriate moments to isolate information so that it doesn't blur together with other things.