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does anyone have any good suggestions for ways to improve your memory or solid study skills that will tranlate into better retention of mountains of material????????????????
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Wow, I was just going to post and ask the same question. Someone's gotta have some ideas. During the summer before med school, lots of people (including myself right now) must be thinking, damn, I'm going to have to memorize more in the next four years than I ever have in my whole life and I can't even remember when my own birthday is! Someone out there must have bought some product or tried out some technique...

... besides smoking weed
 
Chuck Norris said:
I tried this pill once...i can't remember what it was called, who gave it to me or when I took it...but I'm telling you it WORKS!
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Ritalin, Addrall?
 
premedgeek said:
Ritalin, Addrall?
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So I think that person was being sarcastic...
 
RNtoDO said:
does anyone have any good suggestions for ways to improve your memory or solid study skills that will tranlate into better retention of mountains of material????????????????
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I used a Joyce Brothers book, Ten Days to a Successful Memory. It's a bit hokey and was written shortly after the big quiz show win that made her famous, but several of the principles are very sensible. And it's a quick read!
 
BTW, if you click on "Memory Guide" in the center of the page, you will have the choice of learning about how memory works ("Everyday Memory"), mnemonics, or developing study skills. The study skills link is definitely worth a read for those who feel as if they haven't developed good study skills yet.
 
It's not so much about how much you can remember but about how quickly you can forget what you just learned to make room for the new stuff that will be on the next exam. I just turn my head to the side, and it all flows out onto the pavement. There's a lot of information on the ground in the space between the lecture halls where I took exams and the parking lot.
 
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Exercise! In neuroscience we learned that aerobic exercise is good for your hippocampus, where short-term memory is converted to long term memory.

Make sure to go over your notes as many times as possible before the exam. What worked for me last semester was studying a lecture really well a day or two after the lecture was given, reviewing it the next day, then reviewing it again right before the final.

I did these two things the last half of second semester, and my test score dramatically improved.
 
exercise ....lots of sleep...and study only when you are focused(decrease time and increase productivity)
 
Repetition..Repetition....oh and...Repetition...
 
RNtoDO said:
does anyone have any good suggestions for ways to improve your memory or solid study skills that will tranlate into better retention of mountains of material????????????????
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Hi, I just finished my first year and did fairly well. Didn't have to take any memory pills. Just study hard and stay on top your stuff. 👍 Distractions will be there, but you gotta say no
 
Omega 3

REM sleep to consolidate memory.
 
packbit said:
Hi, I just finished my first year and did fairly well. Didn't have to take any memory pills. Just study hard and stay on top your stuff. 👍 Distractions will be there, but you gotta say no
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Hi there,
Odd thing but the above worked fine for me too. Finished AOA (third in my class) and just studied early and often.

njbmd 🙂
 
I just took a whole class this past quarter called the Cellular Basis of Learning and Memory. Hopefully this will be of some help for those who want a more "natural" way to improve their memory without having to rely on pharmaka. Basically...a learning event (such as a 2 hour lecture or something) will stimulate your short term memory in your hippocampus (referred to as E-LTP). So if you take a quiz right after a lecture, chances are you'll do pretty good because it's retained for a short period of time after the learning event. Short term memory is simply expressed by synaptic changes in certain cells of your hippocampus. However, long term memory (L-LTP) is the result of gene expression of certain proteins in those same cells. For this to happen, there is a critical time period of 1 to 3 hours after a learning event in which reinforcement of the material must take place for gene expression to occur. In short, reviewing your notes in a thorough and meaningful way for about 10 or 15 minutes right after your class will dramatically increase the incidence of gene expression in your hippocampal CA1 cells and result in longer lasting memory. Also, when learning material, the information is learned much better when it is associated with something. This is why acronyms that you learn in MCAT classes (such as Dow Jones Industrials in your intestines correlates to Duodenum, Jujenum, and Ileum) help so much in remembering hard to retain facts. While Dow Jones Industrials has nothing to do with the intestines, it produces a stronger stimulus in more nerve bundles of CA3 cells in your hippocampus because you're more used to seeing this term than Duodenum, Jujenum, and Ileum. Hope all this helped and made sense...because there's a quiz on this next Friday, to see how much you remember.
 
Raamy said:
I just took a whole class this past quarter called the Cellular Basis of Learning and Memory. Hopefully this will be of some help for those who want a more "natural" way to improve their memory without having to rely on pharmaka. Basically...a learning event (such as a 2 hour lecture or something) will stimulate your short term memory in your hippocampus (referred to as E-LTP). So if you take a quiz right after a lecture, chances are you'll do pretty good because it's retained for a short period of time after the learning event. Short term memory is simply expressed by synaptic changes in certain cells of your hippocampus. However, long term memory (L-LTP) is the result of gene expression of certain proteins in those same cells. For this to happen, there is a critical time period of 1 to 3 hours after a learning event in which reinforcement of the material must take place for gene expression to occur. In short, reviewing your notes in a thorough and meaningful way for about 10 or 15 minutes right after your class will dramatically increase the incidence of gene expression in your hippocampal CA1 cells and result in longer lasting memory. Also, when learning material, the information is learned much better when it is associated with something. This is why acronyms that you learn in MCAT classes (such as Dow Jones Industrials in your intestines correlates to Duodenum, Jujenum, and Ileum) help so much in remembering hard to retain facts. While Dow Jones Industrials has nothing to do with the intestines, it produces a stronger stimulus in more nerve bundles of CA3 cells in your hippocampus because you're more used to seeing this term than Duodenum, Jujenum, and Ileum. Hope all this helped and made sense...because there's a quiz on this next Friday, to see how much you remember.
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