Will this work?

[akuko2]

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Just a quick question about your study methods in medschool. I'm starting medical school this august but in my last semester of undergrad now. All throughout undergrad I studied this way:
Read whatever topic is being covered in the coming lecture in the book and re-write it in my own shorthand, this would take up most of the studying time, because I would essentially try to teach myself. I rarely studied my notes, just the act of writing them and going over the material seemed useful to learn it. Go to lecture just to listen, review, or ask questions. After this I would have most of the topics close to cemented in my head and would review anything tricky. Later, I would just do a short, general review right before exams.

I know that medschool will be a huge step-up in volume of information. Do you think it is still feasible to study like this? If not what are some ways that I can adjust to better accommodate the new volume of info in addition to more time studying?

Thanks everybody!

 

[cutari]

Not everyone's the same, if that study method is helping you remember I'd stay stick with it and maybe try to adjust a bit once you start Med school.
Spaced repetition helps so much - especially since you'll be learning a lot of new medical jargon and terms - some things won't stick after reading them once.

The amount of material that's going to be thrown at you is going to make it difficult to stay writing notes/reading up on it as well as studying it. I'm still first year so I'm still getting used to it (And I didn't think it would be this hard to be honest )
What works for me is making short notes of everything that I need to know, as short as possible, because there's no way you're going to fit in all that bulk of information (all the notes/powerpoints with 100+ slides/online references/books) when it comes to intense revision a week or so before your exams. I know that you'll feel like the more you know the better, but at some point you have to draw a line - having a lot of resources will make you go crazy, so try to condense everything to a set of notes that contains the information that's required of you to know. That's all I can advise when it comes to the 'volume of information' you mentioned.

Don't beat up yourself too much for not knowing everything - if there's nothing I learnt from med school (I'm joking obviously), I learned that there'll always be a missing patch of information - there's only so much you can study 😛

Best of luck!

 

[akuko2]

Thanks for your advice!

 

[TBV]

What's a book? I watch lecture and take my own hand written notes and study those and it's worked well for me despite the note taking being very time consuming.