Study
Think about your overall study strategy
After finding a treasure trove of old backups, I have been sorting through and summarizing my old study notes. I have found great summaries of physiology, anatomy and pathology, which I will be able to use for my next exam. It’s like finding gold.
Furthermore, my notes give me an impression of my technique. [...]
How to pimp your study recall using contextual memory
Human memory formation is a bit unconventional. We are reminded of this by our daily memory tasks. Have you ever walked laps of a block because you couldn’t find your car?
The question “Where is my car?” doesn’t prompt the answer from your brain. But adding extra information helps, like holding your keys in [...]
Medical software I couldn’t do without
After a discussion on the Twitter, I got thinking about core medical apps and hardware. We all need an email client and we all need a browser. But what applications are vital to my medical practice? Maybe I wouldn’t even use them if I wasn’t a doctor?
The list is suprisingly short:
Papers
Papers is [...]
Options for personal study wikis on Mac
I participated in a great Twitter conversation yesterday about studying and notetaking tools. I have my surgical second part coming up in 2011 (ugh). Last time I studied for an exam (2002, if you believe it), I used Word documents organised in folders to make my summaries. My life has changed since [...]
Four great studying links
Here are four interesting sites I have been reading in the last week. I read these with my “studying” hat on.
Productivity 101 has a great post about tracking habits. Basically, tracking habits is about changing who you are one step at a time. There is a discussion about different techniques, and some [...]