tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8275124532000540547.post5374844818368769152..comments2024-02-17T01:48:01.223-08:00Comments on Dr.Willbe: The Day AfterDrWillbehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201977008275547572noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8275124532000540547.post-77063845565973241072012-11-09T06:37:38.191-08:002012-11-09T06:37:38.191-08:00Hey Ryan,
Thanks! Let's talk offline about #5...Hey Ryan,<br /><br />Thanks! Let's talk offline about #5. THe productivity workflow I'll write about in the future. Once I perfect it :)<br /><br />Pumpkin beer is awesome.<br /><br />Also, I saw that you wrote a blog post about low carbing? Sweet man. I've been doing LC since I was 13, and now my wife and I do a more paleo regiment. We love it. I've spoken to Gary Taubes and want to get him to come speak here at Duke.<br /><br />Check out this site: http://www.awlr.org/about.html<br /><br />This guy Larry is at VCU med. He's amazing. He's a med student and he's running this awesome registry full of stories from people who have rejected the "eat less, exercise more" mythology and are losing weight effortlessly. It's pretty incredible.DrWillbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16201977008275547572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8275124532000540547.post-27040910844915464212012-11-09T06:33:57.059-08:002012-11-09T06:33:57.059-08:00Hey,
I'm sorry the beginning of med school st...Hey,<br /><br />I'm sorry the beginning of med school started out rough. It happens to all of us. Adapting to the volume and rate of med school is hard. And what worked in undergrad will most likely need to be modified or completely scrapped. <br /><br />I'm going to do a series in the future about what to put on cards. It depends on your goals.<br /><br />'high yield' is in the eye of the beholder. High-yield for class exams? For Step? For life? <br /><br />In general, class stuff is minutiae that you just need to remember for the test, and then dump it. <br /><br />For Step 1, we have First Aid for the Step 1. That book is all high-yield. Everything in it. It's been honed over years of editing and feedback, and you can trust that it is full of nuggets that are useful for Step 1, some parts of your classes, and somewhat for a career as a physician. At this stage in the game, you don't know yet what is important info. Thankfully, First Aid did the work for you.<br /><br />So as I've said to others, a good place to start with Anki is by going through First Aid, looking at the material that corresponds to whatever you're doing in your classes at the moment. Make cards just for the First Aid stuff. That is a good, minimal goal that should not give you too much trouble. You may be asking, well what about class material? I hesitate to tell you to make cards for that because it will be time consuming, and have short-term payoff. You will not likely want to use those many of those cards again. But deciding whether to make cards is up to you.<br /><br /><br />Hope that helps.DrWillbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16201977008275547572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8275124532000540547.post-2592900056875599872012-11-05T09:38:48.954-08:002012-11-05T09:38:48.954-08:00Dr Willbe:
I had a false start with med school. I...Dr Willbe:<br /><br />I had a false start with med school. In the first few weeks of school I found I was spending more time making flash cards (writing them out longhand) than studying them. I abandoned flashcards and almost failed. In undergrad I succeeded by making reams of flashcards on what I thought was every high-yield detail in the text. I was successful in organic chemistry this way (in addition to doing as many synthesis problems from the text as I could get my hands on.) Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm getting a chance to redeem myself with medical school and I'd like to improve my efficiency. <br /><br />I saw your video where you talk specifically about how to "write" your cards in med school using a citric acid cycle text during your FirstAid study. Could you say more about how you determine what to put on the card? By that I mean your method of shorthand and your method of determining what is "high yield."<br /><br /> I'm somewhat tech-savvy so I will try Anki and "tagging" the cards together by exam, though that's not the intended use. Furthermore, it is hard at my stage in medical school to gauge what is "high-yield" material for cards.<br />A Med Studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04389987105467328163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8275124532000540547.post-10952926231405538972012-10-20T10:47:16.676-07:002012-10-20T10:47:16.676-07:00DrWillbe,
Regardless of the outcome, congratulati...DrWillbe,<br /><br />Regardless of the outcome, congratulations on finishing Step 1! I am eager to see what other interesting topics you bring to this blog. #7 on your "list of stuff" is particularly interesting to me - I'm a first year myself with a similar technology-oriented, endlessly-tinkering mindset and have been grappling with new study methods this year. I'm also curious about #5 - could you give a little more information on that?<br /><br />As for #8, don't forget about pumpkin beer! (If you're into that sort of thing.)<br /><br />All the best.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08861714203919000647noreply@blogger.com