As I mentioned previously, medical school often feels like drinking from the firehose. The whole process basically involves absorbing large amounts of information at a quick pace. This is easier in some subjects for me (concept-based ones) than others (memorization-based ones). Anatomy just happens to be one of those memorization-based subjects, and that is what we're slogging through right now.
I've found that flash cards tend to be a helpful way for me to memorize things, partially because they are very portable (I can go through them on the bus!), and partially because for my brain to memorize things, I have to beat them into it repeatedly. And then some more. Occasionally I'll try to come up with mnemonics to help things stick a little better. Discussing things with other people and reviewing together also helps, as does drawing things out.
But as I am always looking for a better way of doing things, what do you do, dear (5) readers, to make things that you learn stick?
Showing posts with label ask the audience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ask the audience. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Brilliant idea
Saw this a while ago online. It's fake food that looks like it has spilled. Perfect for saving your seat! Where would you use yours?
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| h/t to Gizmodo and Jeremy's Place |
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Three mostly unrelated things
1: I don't recall whether or not I shared this on the blog (and couldn't see after a cursory search), but I set a goal in January to read 100 books this year. It has been a perfect year to attempt this with long bus rides during my last semester of school and a pretty laid back summer. We'll see how fall goes...
So the good new is that today I finished book number 50--that's right, halfway through my challenge, and there are still three more weeks before the year is half over. I'm ahead of schedule, which is probably a good thing. I calculated a pace of two books per week to meet my goal, and that will be harder to keep up once medical school starts. More med school in a moment. Book 50 was a good one: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. You can see my review here (this goes to my goodreads profile, you'll need to scroll down once you get there).
2: Thanks for all of your thoughts about the song of the moment. I'm glad that those who commented are in favor of it ('cept you, Kel. I have my eye on you and your different music tastes...). I think I'm going to try to get it back up by next Wednesday. I appreciate the RSS issue being brought up. I'm thinking of leaving the player at the top of the blog like before (optional, as always), but need a good way to let those who read the blog through Google Reader or other feed readers to know when the song has changed and what it is. My proposed solution: indicate the current song of the moment at the end of each post that I put up. Those who care to hear it can then visit the blog to listen, and won't need to bother checking in vain if it hasn't been updated. Thoughts?
3: Way back in item number one, I promised more med school stuff. Here it is. I'm wanting to chronicle the medical school experience, and want to do it with a blog. However, because of patient confidentiality issues I probably either need a privacy barrier or to blog anonymously. I like having my blog public. I also don't think I would be able to maintain a personal blog and a medical school blog--I don't want to spread myself too thin. But maybe if I compromise and just do one post per week on each? Dunno. Once again, I request your thoughts. What would you like to see? We'll probably revisit this topic later after I have cogitated more on it.
So the good new is that today I finished book number 50--that's right, halfway through my challenge, and there are still three more weeks before the year is half over. I'm ahead of schedule, which is probably a good thing. I calculated a pace of two books per week to meet my goal, and that will be harder to keep up once medical school starts. More med school in a moment. Book 50 was a good one: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. You can see my review here (this goes to my goodreads profile, you'll need to scroll down once you get there).
2: Thanks for all of your thoughts about the song of the moment. I'm glad that those who commented are in favor of it ('cept you, Kel. I have my eye on you and your different music tastes...). I think I'm going to try to get it back up by next Wednesday. I appreciate the RSS issue being brought up. I'm thinking of leaving the player at the top of the blog like before (optional, as always), but need a good way to let those who read the blog through Google Reader or other feed readers to know when the song has changed and what it is. My proposed solution: indicate the current song of the moment at the end of each post that I put up. Those who care to hear it can then visit the blog to listen, and won't need to bother checking in vain if it hasn't been updated. Thoughts?
3: Way back in item number one, I promised more med school stuff. Here it is. I'm wanting to chronicle the medical school experience, and want to do it with a blog. However, because of patient confidentiality issues I probably either need a privacy barrier or to blog anonymously. I like having my blog public. I also don't think I would be able to maintain a personal blog and a medical school blog--I don't want to spread myself too thin. But maybe if I compromise and just do one post per week on each? Dunno. Once again, I request your thoughts. What would you like to see? We'll probably revisit this topic later after I have cogitated more on it.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Music Question
Well, Google changed the way their webhosting works--instead of Google pages, they have developed Google sites. Still easy to make a webpage for oneself, but I haven't been able to find a way to host some of my files there like I had done before. This is relevant because this was how I provided the song of the moment on my blog (before the redesign). It stopped working with the Google transition, and so there has been no song of the moment for some time now.
So here's the question: does anyone care? Is that a feature that anyone enjoyed (or would have if it had been updated more frequently)? I have a couple of ideas brewing for how to re-institute it (Dropbox or gDocs being the two biggies), though it wouldn't look any different than before. Would any particular change(s) make it better / more user-friendly / cooler / more used?
Leave me your thoughts in the comments. I may even bring it back if no-one ever used it, as I enjoy spreading a little music love (even if it's just to myself).
So here's the question: does anyone care? Is that a feature that anyone enjoyed (or would have if it had been updated more frequently)? I have a couple of ideas brewing for how to re-institute it (Dropbox or gDocs being the two biggies), though it wouldn't look any different than before. Would any particular change(s) make it better / more user-friendly / cooler / more used?
Leave me your thoughts in the comments. I may even bring it back if no-one ever used it, as I enjoy spreading a little music love (even if it's just to myself).
