Study Strategies for Systems-Based Curriculum

[Drummerx139]

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Hey Everyone,

I'm looking from some input from students in systems-based curriculum who have found effective study methods.

A lot of the info I've found is relative to subject based curriculum where most people say "don't worry about studying with this resource or that one until second year when you learn pathology". But what if you start learning pathology from the first day with systems?

If you could start over from year 1, how would you structure your studying in relation to lecture notes, FirstAid, Step Up, BRS/other review books, Anki/Firecracker/Pathoma etc. in order to study well for your classes while also setting yourself up to do well when you begin your study schedule for Step 1 during second year?

Thanks!

 

[Psai]

Watch pathoma. Glance at First Aid to see what's important but learn the details as well as you can. Try to go for integration of knowledge and understanding concepts because they are more important than cramming all the details though.

 

[evilbooyaa]

If you're starting with pathophysiology in M1, then pathoma will help you. I find that pathoma is better at helping with pathophysiology than it is with pathology.

 

[ulikedaggers]

I've developed this extremely useful (and highly rare) skill that allows me to determine if an allo thread is written by a pre-med based only on the thread title.

Hey Everyone,

I'm looking from some input from students in systems-based curriculum who have found effective study methods.

A lot of the info I've found is relative to subject based curriculum where most people say "don't worry about studying with this resource or that one until second year when you learn pathology". But what if you start learning pathology from the first day with systems?

If you could start over from year 1, how would you structure your studying in relation to lecture notes, FirstAid, Step Up, BRS/other review books, Anki/Firecracker/Pathoma etc. in order to study well for your classes while also setting yourself up to do well when you begin your study schedule for Step 1 during second year?

Thanks!

You should focus on lecture notes until you figure out how much of the tested material is directly from the stuff the professors said in lecture. Know a few sources very well, don't try to study from 5 different physio books because they're all going to say the exact same thing.

 

[DermViser]

Hey Everyone,

I'm looking from some input from students in systems-based curriculum who have found effective study methods.

A lot of the info I've found is relative to subject based curriculum where most people say "don't worry about studying with this resource or that one until second year when you learn pathology". But what if you start learning pathology from the first day with systems?

If you could start over from year 1, how would you structure your studying in relation to lecture notes, FirstAid, Step Up, BRS/other review books, Anki/Firecracker/Pathoma etc. in order to study well for your classes while also setting yourself up to do well when you begin your study schedule for Step 1 during second year?

Thanks!

Why are you using Step-Up if you already have FA?

 

[Drummerx139]

Not trying to disguise myself as a med student, I'm a premed starting at systems-based school in July. I'm only looking for advice from current med students with a similar curriculum to see how they approached studying in school.

 

[mcloaf]

The biggest skill is figuring out how to autoregulate. Some of my sequences have been nearly 100% from the lecture notes, while with others I've been able to get by with mostly Firecracker and BRS physio.

I'm an M1 at a systems-based school that doesn't really start path in earnest until year 2 FWIW.

Go hawks.