Saving all your school notes/packets after graduation?

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How's it going,

I'm moving out of my apt and relocating back home for my last 2 rotations out of state and wanted to know if it was worth it to save all my lecture packets from school. I've purchased binders and boxes to take 'em back.

I was wondering if you guys saved all your notes from school to keep with you. Maybe to look at for studying or just for memories? Or did you guys end up tossing them, never to look at them again? I do have RXPREP to study for the Naplex, but am thinking but looking over some school notes too. What did you guys do with notes after school lectures, didactics, and after graduation?

 

[PharmDHawkeye]

The way I see it, there's no point in saving them. The information from P1 year is now old and outdated. JNC8 and whatever ATP update is coming up should be out this year (said everyone in 2011).

One of my classmates had another take on it. If you really think some information is presented in a really helpful way in one of your class lectures, then use it. I just haven't used my school notes all year during rotations, so I don't think I will start now.

Also using a NAPLEX study book, and that seems pretty basic so maybe you can keep your school notes as a supplement.

 

[Trakker]

I saved my school notes and they are still in the garage! I like Lexicomp for work. Look for discounts: http://www.lexi.com

 

[Trakker]

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[rph3664]

At least keep them until you've passed boards.

I tossed all of my notes into the recycle bin as soon as I did. I was about to move anyway and didn't want to take them with me, and knew I would probably never look at them again.

 

[fauxden]

all my stuff is in the cloud... easy access all the time

 

[rxlea]

all my stuff is in the cloud... easy access all the time

This

 

[rxlea]

Have a bonfire

 

[MindOverMatter]

 

[KARM12]

Saved some of the pharmacotherapy, calculations, and law notes...to help study for boards

 

[Oreo Milk Shake]

thank you guys!! Deciding to keep some, burn some, and make use of our city's recycling center! 😛

 

[confettiflyer]

I started with electronic notes from the beginning, I threw away paper stuff pretty much every semester.

Get rid of it...even for boards, all I needed were 2 review books.

I did turn my study tables into clinical pearl sheets later, but electronic notes are easy to maintain.

I also had to move cross country and move into a small-ish apartment in the city. Ain't got no time for paper.

 

[BMBiology]

I went thru my pharmacy school notes last week. I thought to myself how hard I studied and how little I still retain.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

I took mine to the recycling collector bin at the front of the Sam's Club parking lot for collection.

 

[radio frequency]

Things get outdated really fast. Facts from last semester are already not recommended, which is crazy. I'm thinking of looking into Evernote to maintain a cloud-based info system. Even though some of what I learned is already irrelevant, it helps to build a foundation upon which I can modify facts...

Any suggestions for cloud-based storage options?

 

[confettiflyer]

Moving cross country and having to pay to haul notes really puts an incentive on sending it to the recycling bin.

Besides all my preceptors in school told me to ditch the notes...if I have to refer to them, I'm doing something wrong.

 

[297point1]

Statistics and pharmaceutical calculations notes still come in handy for me.

I jettisoned the rest many years ago and haven't missed it one bit.

 

[mustang sally]

I went thru my pharmacy school notes last week. I thought to myself how hard I studied and how little I still retain.

Glad to hear I'm not the only person who feels this way. I've learned lots of random stuff since becoming a pharmacist but also forgotten a lot of what I learned in school. Guess if you don't use it, you lose it.

 

[confettiflyer]

when i end up lecturing i realize how much crap i forgot...and how much crap students have to learn that isn't 100% relevant in the real world.

 

[squiggles5270]

I would keep them. Just because you graduated and maybe have a job doesnt mean you stop learning. Even studying for the Naplax, i often referred back to my notes and charts. I have a book I still look at to refresh myself on different classes and mechanisms of drugs. Do you have to keep every freakin paper? Probally not, but the things that are most important I would set aside.

 

[Bier9999]

I would agree with everyone that the notes are worthless for re-education purposes. Pharmacy info gets updated very often so it would be outdated. Plus there are so many resources available out there like uptodate, micromedex, APhA Naplex review, etc. However, I like to keep mine for sentimental purposes since I didn't take alot of photos on campus. Call me crazy but looking at them reminds me of the people who dropped out or lost touch with and how much fun I had back in college.

2 years ago, I went to a Staples and asked a clerk if they do a service where they could scan all my papers and burn them on a DVD. They didn't. Later on, I tried to scan it with a printer at home but that took way too much time.

Last month, I found this free iphone app called Genius Scan. You take a picture of the paper and it converts it into black and white page. Kinda like a regular copy machine quality and the photo size is small, not in mb.

But like everyone said on here, if you're using your own notes to study for the boards, you got issues.

 

[BMBiology]

Glad to hear I'm not the only person who feels this way. I've learned lots of random stuff since becoming a pharmacist but also forgotten a lot of what I learned in school. Guess if you don't use it, you lose it.

Yeah but I think say most of the things you learn in pharmacy school is not practical and doesn't need to be retained.

 

[confettiflyer]

Yeah but I think say most of the things you learn in pharmacy school is not practical and doesn't need to be retained.

mmm i wouldn't go this far...school forms the knowledge base which one augments as they encounter the "real world"

Sure it could be 100% different, but someone should know what it's 100% from

 

[BMBiology]

mmm i wouldn't go this far...school forms the knowledge base which one augments as they encounter the "real world"

Sure it could be 100% different, but someone should know what it's 100% from

I agree. You learn the fundamentals in pharmacy school. However, there are certain things you will probably never use in your practice like the structure of Prozac. Those things you can toss away.

 

[Lubeckd]

I'll probably keep my therapeutics packages for a while, everything else, I just want to throw it away.

 

[confettiflyer]

I agree. You learn the fundamentals in pharmacy school. However, there are certain things you will probably never use in your practice like the structure of Prozac. Those things you can toss away.

lol, i tossed that away 0.01 seconds after answering such a question on the test. pump and dump baby.

 

[Blackboxrx]

Have a bonfire

I had a bonfire after finals. Lets think about this. Have you ever referred to old notes? No. Co you know how to access the newest guidelines and literature? Yes. And the latter is what you should be reading anyway. BURN THEM

 

[BMBiology]

I had a bonfire after finals. Lets think about this. Have you ever referred to old notes? No. Co you know how to access the newest guidelines and literature? Yes. And the latter is what you should be reading anyway. BURN THEM

I must admit though. It brought back a lot of memories...the good and the bad times. I agree with you that the notes won't be practical a few years later but if anything I would save the notes for sentimental value.

 

[IndustryPharmD]

I threw out my pharmacy school notes four or five years after graduating... Just like I threw out my undergrad notes after I graduated pharmacy school. I guess my mental timer is that a piece of paper should be kept for a few years before being disposed of (which is why my office and my living room have so much paper, I guess!). I think I opened them twice in those six or seven years, both times in the first year or two. I have kept a few textbooks, though, and have found them rather useful over the years, though some, like pharmacotherapy, are rather outdated by now... still can't bring myself to dispose of it, too many memories...