Tips and resources on topics to memorize?

[Onigiri]

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Hello SDN,

I am a incoming medical student, and I wanted to start memorizing topics and concepts. I have a lot of time and on my down time I wanted to get a jump on remembering salient concepts for boards and med school. I also read a book called the memory book and it has made memorizing really fun.

So far I'm memorizing the skeletal system and I want to move on to the muscular system. However, I'm not sure if the poster of the skeletal system at my doctor's office is a good diagram to memorize?

Are there any resources and guidelines that I can look at to see where I should spend the time to memorization?

I am currently also looking for pharmacological stuff and on neurotransmitters.

 

[Pacna]

If you study all summer for your first unit, you'll be 3-4 days ahead of everyone, and they'll catch up to you by day 5. I know, I know. It sounds like I'm exaggerating the density of info in M1. I'm not. Trust the consensus, and take it easy until class starts. 🙂

 

[Rekt]

Hello SDN,

I am a incoming medical student, and I wanted to start memorizing topics and concepts. I have a lot of time and on my down time I wanted to get a jump on remembering salient concepts for boards and med school. I also read a book called the memory book and it has made memorizing really fun.

So far I'm memorizing the skeletal system and I want to move on to the muscular system. However, I'm not sure if the poster of the skeletal system at my doctor's office is a good diagram to memorize?

Are there any resources and guidelines that I can look at to see where I should spend the time to memorization?

I am currently also looking for pharmacological stuff and on neurotransmitters.

You don't seem the type to listen to the copious amounts of "you're wasting your time" replies, which is true. So here you go;

We covered Grays Anatomy for students in 18 weeks. It's 1200 pages. Have fun OP!

 

[operaman]

When you have your first exam, you will have forgotten things you memorized on Day 1 of medical school. Let that sink in.

Now...how much do you think you'll remember from the summer? from March? (wtf it's f-ing march?!)

Every minute you spend on medical school material between now and Day 1 is 100% wasted time. Period.

Do something else. Anything else.

If you need to justify it to yourself, think of it this way: you are preventing/delaying burnout. You WILL get burned out during medical school. More than once, actually. That's just how it is. All you can do is try to minimize the time lost to it and delay it as long as possible. You do that by focusing on things outside of school, enjoying life, etc.

You're currently in one of those rare zero-stress times of life. You've been accepted to medical school and you basically just have to kill time until August. The next 4+ years of your life are basically set and barring something truly insane happening, you'll be a doctor at the end of it. Cherish this time of zero stress and minimal responsibility. Your next one like it will be MS4 after Match Day. After that, it's retirement. That's basically it. 3 times in your life left. Don't blow 1/3 of them studying something that won't even help you.

 

[niblet]

Read every article on uptodate.

 

[Onigiri]

You don't seem the type to listen to the copious amounts of "you're wasting your time" replies, which is true. So here you go;

We covered Grays Anatomy for students in 18 weeks. It's 1200 pages. Have fun OP!

At first, I thought this was a book based off of the soap opera loll. Thank you for this!!

I plan to look over things here and there to get more familiar with terms and I genuinely unwind by studying. I took two years off from school before I applied and now I'm craving to study. I heard medical school is like learning a second language. I trust you all about the sheer load of information I will have to try and digest, as Goro states, "medical school is like drinking a fire hose and chasing after the fire truck." I am definitely scared and that might be another reason why I want to get a head start....

Again, thank you all for your insight, advice, recommendations. I will keep all this in mind.