Four programs to test your memory (OSX)
Studying always relies on memorisation to some degree. For a surgeon, anatomy is the main killer for memory - it seems to be retested at every opportunity, and has alwasy fallen out of my head since the last exam. To help reacquire facts, there are a number of free, or nearly free memorizing tools to use on your Mac.
Genius is a nice program that organises your lists of questions and choses what to ask based on your previous performances.
Flash cards is another freeware application, that works out your progress score. This program allows you to set up either a flash phrase or picture to test on, so is good if your work requires picture recognition (great for anatomy).
ProVoc is marketed as a vocabulary trainer, but works as a memory tool as well. It is remarkable flexible and surprisingly free. It integrates with your printer and iPod and dashboard. It has really nice feedback on your performance and you can download vocab sets from the website. Unfortunately, no anatomy or medical sets yet, but perhaps soon.
iFlash is a commercial application that is also based around the Flash card metaphor. it can deal with images, sound and text, and looks pretty slick. As an additional advantage, you can access flash decks made by other users. You can export the cards to your ipod and customise the mode of questioning, based on how you want to accept a card as memorised.
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