Hi. I was a hardcore hand writer, too. I did it for everything first semester and by winter break my hand looked like a gnarled wizards staff. So I loaded school materials into notability and blotted out the text in certain places and made sure to be able to regurgitate it prior to an assessment. So for example, notes would say “The mitochondria is powerhouse of the cell.” Block out the last part of that sentence and regurgitate it as you review. That and anki.
People handwrote med school notes for decades before the tech existed. I know current med students who still handwrite everything, if anything it's easier now because you can always backtrack during a video to catch what you missed. From what I understand, most people need to majorly change their study tactics when they start med school, so don't be surprised if you find that handwriting no longer works as well as it once did, but there is no reason that it can't.
I abandoned that strategy because it was so many pages/slides.
I'm left-handed. Handwriting is fine. The most important thing about lecture, if you're going to go or watch online, is actually paying attention. If writing notes by hand helps you stay engaged, and you like it, do it. One of my med school classmates sat with his legs crossed in the back corner of every lecture and wrote notes in a languid, loopy, cartoonish script. It looked like a 3rd grader learning cursive. He probably used 10 pages of notebook paper for every lecture. It drove me nuts and I thought he was destined to fail. I usually sat there without any notes and just listened and tried to take everything in. We both ended up AOA. Meanwhile some of your classmates will make the most beautiful handwritten notes, color-coded and everything, and struggle because they're paying more attention to their notes than to the material.
Oh yea, I've known since high school that there's a correlation between number of highlighter colors used and likelihood of failing a course
