step 1 prep for auditory learners

[coffeesnob]

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I am an auditory learner (and visual to a less extent). I am wondering if there are other auditory learners out there who tailored their step 1 preparation to their learning style.

What has worked for me so far for med school classes is to watch recorded lectures 2-3 times. Yeah, call me crazy but I realized that studying from slides/notes is not as efficient/effective for me.

I don't learn well from reading texts. So going through First Aid/RR without any auditory stimuli would be very painful and slow for me. I like pathoma for obvious reasons.

Any ideas?

 

[Dires]

I'm in the same boat. Been considering DIT, but haven't wrapped my head around paying someone to read first aid to me.

 

[Freddie Mercury]

What has worked for me so far for med school classes is to watch recorded lectures 2-3 times. Yeah, call me crazy but I realized that studying from slides/notes is not as efficient/effective for me.

I studied the exact same way through M1+M2 (listened to lectures 2-3 times, barely looked at notes). For Step 1 and pathology, Pathoma works wonders. For pharm/micro, I thought the Kaplan 2010 videos were very good (Especially Lionel Raymon for pharm, Conrad Fischer for physio).

Of course, you must must MUST use UWorld at some point, which is like a textbook in addition to a qbnak, so there's that.

I listened to few DITs but it just didn't help me much. It covers material at a more superficial level, so if you're shooting for ~230 its fine, but its not a very efficient use of time if going for 250+ IMO.

 

[coffeesnob]

I studied the exact same way through M1+M2 (listened to lectures 2-3 times, barely looked at notes). For Step 1 and pathology, Pathoma works wonders. For pharm/micro, I thought the Kaplan 2010 videos were very good (Especially Lionel Raymon for pharm, Conrad Fischer for physio).

Of course, you must must MUST use UWorld at some point, which is like a textbook in addition to a qbnak, so there's that.

I listened to few DITs but it just didn't help me much. It covers material at a more superficial level, so if you're shooting for ~230 its fine, but its not a very efficient use of time if going for 250+ IMO.

Do you mean kaplan high yield or the lecture videos? They are both pretty expensive... I'm thinking about recording myself reading First Aid out loud and listening to it couple times. I might get more out of that than DIT? Or, is it a complete waste of my time?

I will definitely use UWorld. I am going to try to go through Rx throughout my 2nd year, and then start Uworld couple months before my test date.

 

[operaman]

Ditto for Pathoma. Also liked Goljian. Kaplan is expensive although there are many who acquire them illegally.

I'll put a plug in for Picmonic for micro. This came out January-ish of my M2 year; absurd picture mnemonics but dangit if I still don't remember things about obscure bugs because of some stupid picture on a card. I think they have a free sample deck you can use to see if you like it. Apparently they've also expanded their selection of cards; I mostly used it for micro and some path stuff. The cards have narration too so it works well for us auditory folks 🙂

 

[rodmichael82]

I am an auditory learner (and visual to a less extent). I am wondering if there are other auditory learners out there who tailored their step 1 preparation to their learning style.

What has worked for me so far for med school classes is to watch recorded lectures 2-3 times. Yeah, call me crazy but I realized that studying from slides/notes is not as efficient/effective for me.

I don't learn well from reading texts. So going through First Aid/RR without any auditory stimuli would be very painful and slow for me. I like pathoma for obvious reasons.

Any ideas?

Pathoma and Goljan audio are 2 excellent resources for step 1.

 

[jakeislove]

Don't know if this will help but; the Samsung Galaxy S5 will read aloud books purchased through Amazon and Google Play.

I use the function on the stationary bike or at work (between rotations) to hear step 3 material.