Retention(DragonWell i could use your help)

[Medicine Man 13]

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Hi I'm a year 2 in a six year medical program that starts right out of highschool and im taking boards in 2 years but i had some questions about it now😀

I was wondering what is the best way to retain information, or how do you guys do it?

Also should i be worried about my medical school because our scores are typically below average. Although every year we have a few students who pass with flying colors like 250, i think our school's highest(although this may just be a rumor is 269). I'm sort of worried about my medical school because we are now talking about carbohydrates synthesis and degradation and the instructor informed us about the glut 1 through 4, but he never told us that the placenta used glut 3, and i find that when i read the book there is what seems to be twice as much information that my professor was just leaving out. What should i do? Do i go ahead and learn that cytochrome c1 in complex III of the etc has 3 iron sulfur centers and the resike protein???

Also does anyone have any pdf sample questions or review books for genetics or biochem?

I hope to do well on boards 240+, currently I still have my 4.0 after 6 semsters(we do three a year, one in the summer). But i think i tend to do worse on standardized tests, or at least thats how it was in elementary school. Act on science though was 33 or 32 cant remember. So what should I do?

 

[DwyaneWade]

Hi I'm a year 2 in a six year medical program that starts right out of highschool and im taking boards in 2 years but i had some questions about it now😀

I was wondering what is the best way to retain information, or how do you guys do it?

Also should i be worried about my medical school because our scores are typically below average. Although every year we have a few students who pass with flying colors like 250, i think our school's highest(although this may just be a rumor is 269). I'm sort of worried about my medical school because we are now talking about carbohydrates synthesis and degradation and the instructor informed us about the glut 1 through 4, but he never told us that the placenta used glut 3, and i find that when i read the book there is what seems to be twice as much information that my professor was just leaving out. What should i do? Do i go ahead and learn that cytochrome c1 in complex III of the etc has 3 iron sulfur centers and the resike protein???

Also does anyone have any pdf sample questions or review books for genetics or biochem?

I hope to do well on boards 240+, currently I still have my 4.0 after 6 semsters(we do three a year, one in the summer). But i think i tend to do worse on standardized tests, or at least thats how it was in elementary school. Act on science though was 33 or 32 cant remember. So what should I do?

Chill out. You don't need to know all that undergrad basic science BS for your boards, nor should you be worrying about the boards before even starting medical school. Enjoy life before medical school, before long you will be able to count the amount of free hours you have in a week on your hands.

 

[Medicine Man 13]

Chill out. You don't need to know all that undergrad basic science BS for your boards, nor should you be worrying about the boards before even starting medical school. Enjoy life before medical school, before long you will be able to count the amount of free hours you have in a week on your hands.

I am taking medical school courses, I'm taking biochemistry, anatomy physiology, histology and embryology

 

[UditNarayan]

the absolute best thing to do right now to prepare for med school is chill and enjoy undergrad. i too am from an accelerated med program, and i didnt even take things like biochem, genetics, orgo 2 before med school. (hmm, one of those sounds like a prerequisite right? luckily, i was able to get away with that...) in med school, i still managed to do very very well since i was mentally prepared to get serious once med school began. very little in undergrad truly matters for med school and even if it does cover some of the info you will see in med school, it can still be learned in med school even if you're seeing it just for the first time. im not lying to you here...there is more than enough information given in med school classes for you to pick things up and you certainly dont need to kill yourself before med school even starts. thats not to say that you may get a freak question that requires some long term recall of cell/molec bio in undergrad - but those are outlier questions and not to be worried about.

overall advice, i would say just relax and have a great undergrad experience (which for you is certainly not long). once med school starts, just be mentally prepared to get cracking with the course material.

PM if you have any specifics...

 

[diosa428]

If you really want to know what's important for the boards, buy a copy of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1. Use it with your classes and take notes in it.

 

[mudphudwannabe]

I think the best thing you can do is just learn everything as well as you can at the time. There is no way you are going to remember every little detail over the next 2 years, but if you learn things solidly the first time around, they will come back more quickly when you review. If you like, you can start looking at review books for the subjects you are covering, and annotate the corresponding sections in FA, but that is not a requirement for doing well on Step 1. Concentrate on doing well in your classes - there will be plenty of time to focus specifically on Step 1 later.