How to Study in Medical School

[@DoctorNajeeb]

Thanks for the love. ❤️ I love your channel too

[@sophiab6486]

Dr. Najeeb you are a national treasure.

[@daniyalahmednagori6384]

This man is.''GRANDFATHER OF ONLINE MEDICAL EDUCATION''.well said.

[@sergiocamachoarreola143]

todos te amamos Dr najeeb muchas gracias

[@ahababkhan6803]

Dr. E strong well said everything thanks ,I love also Dr Najeeb lacture

[@ahababkhan6803]

Sir ur channel is v beneficial thanks

[@plutobaby9996]

He basically summed up a book I read right before I starting nursing school called “make it stick”, very good book if you have time to read I’d recommend it because it goes in depth on a lot of points dr strong made in this video

[@StrongMed]

"Make It Stick" is fantastic!

[@CHERRELL17]

As an undergraduate senior at UC Berkeley, I must say your videos are beyond helpful. Aspiring to become a psychiatrist, there are many questions I had initially in which your videos have answered . To everyone reading this comment, please have self-belief that improvement is possible. Mastering skills such as discipline, resiliency, and having a determined attitude while studying now will cultivate a better you in the future. THANK YOU Eric 😊☺️

[@ThePathOfEudaimonia]

How (and what) are you doing now?

[@MerchantsOfMisery]

@I. A I'm a patient. Please do! The world needs more people of color in this field and I can't tell you how nice it is to have a therapist that understands racism.

[@northmania5332]

Varied practise... this is what I needed. I found myself doing a pile of flashcards on every subject, and was easily overwhelmed when switching to the next subject. Now incorporating your tips, it is much more enjoytable. Thank you!

[@laurentiu244]

This is probably the best advise for any med student . Thank you.

[@erikahiller9121]

I love the Noted Anatomist... highly recommended for anyone taking anatomy

[@goodman5836]

Erika Hiller Dr.najeeb is also very good

[@DhiviBoy]

Thanks for this. I'm currently going over pathoma as well as the step 2 Kaplan material. They are nice for reviewing things we did in prior semesters of medical school but most of the content is summarized and high yield for exams. I also try my best to read daily from textbooks as well as treatment guidelines. Osmosis is great, I've subscribed to their KZbin channel and I usually watch a video a day of their content. At the end of the day, I want to be a proficient doctor and not just someone who can ace an exam. Good luck to all those out there, study hard and try your best.

[@muafman]

beside the popular beliefs ,med school is the most important milestone for my perspective. I m actually very proud and very happy about meds being in my life.

[@vinitavincentkuruvila1119]

Dr Strong, I totally agree with what you said about students having learning preferences over learning styles. I used to think I have a chaotic method of studying compared to my other med school mates. Most of them use one single method and that's it and myself, different methods for different subjects.

[@getitdone0010]

Best video honestly It made me realize I am nowhere LEARNING the material

[@Neurocyborg]

Thank you so much for this vid, sir. I was mixing different techniques and topics and I was afraid: "perhaps I am doing it wrong, I should maybe stop and do one type of tasks for a day not to mix it too much as I usually do". This video relieved my worries ^^ Have a wonderful day.

[@medstream8904]

I saw a comment of yours once saying that a medical student shouldn't be using harrison's to learn medicine, and since then i've been wondering about what is the best resource to learn medicine, not for exams..but simply to be a better doctor, and since i value your opinion so much, i hope you provide me with an answer to my question. Thank you for all your work.

[@yourmomisgay377]

Have you got the answer?😀

[@fredastaire6156]

Man, I don't know if you're still around doc but thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos. I'm currently going over your DDx series to solidify my approach to differentials. Thanks again!

[@StrongMed]

I'm glad the videos have been helpful! Yeah, I'm still around. Needed to take a break from making videos for a while due to personal/family issues. I had wanted to start posting again in September, but it keeps getting pushed back. Any week now...

[@nhfoodrecipes8600]

Thanks your video make me feel better. I feel like i had been struggling with my test lately and feel dumb.

[@patricia2093]

Just wanted to say while I'm not in medical school, your EKG videos were awesome and really informative. I'm still going to a cardiologist for another issue, but I recently got an EKG in a packet that said "Possible left atrial enlargement, ST deviation and moderate t-wave abnormality, consider anterior ischemia" ... obviously that's a little shocking to see for a patient with no mention from my PCP! Now I know why my PCP didn't say anything was wrong. Your videos reassured me my EKG was actually pretty dang normal, and I'm sure at least I have no enlargement since that video of yours about atrial enlargement was so in depth. Amazing how fast doctors can read EKG reports, though.

[@DrHistoryV]

Dr. Strong I am a us medical student and I really love all of your videos, i feel im becoming a more powerful student and doctor

[@PhilipposACosta]

I'm a brazilian graduate. Its different how US professors think about board exam materials. He just recommended pathoma, FA, UWorld... In Brazil we also have board exam materials (Medcurso, medcel...). But most professors will tell you not to use them, instead, to read dense books such as Cecil, Harrison, Robbins, Braunwald, Goodman. To be honest, I think board materials are much more time efficient. Brazilian board exam material (Medcurso), is so good that is such a pity that is in portuguese and people around the world cant use it.

[@StrongMed]

I can't imagine any US faculty recommending Cecil or Robbins and the like for dedicated board studying, although most do recommend those texts for their courses (Guyton and Hall for physiology is also a fairly standard recommendation here). Most med school faculty aren't very familiar with the resources that students actually use for their courses, as well as for test prep. We had a faculty meeting several months ago to discuss a new preclerkship curriculum, and someone mentioned that the students were all using Pathoma to study for our pathology course instead of the official course materials (which were of very inconsistent quality). The basic science faculty (some of whom taught in the path course) were like "what is Pathoma?" Although I don't blame them, and I understand why this is the case, it's unfortunate that more faculty aren't familiar with the resources their students are using. That's not to say that we should be "teaching to the test" in med school, because being a doctor is about way more than what's currently covered on board exams. However, I also don't think that med school faculty should ignore the boards entirely and expect students to just figure it out on their own via peer groups and Student Doctor Network.

[@caiocaldasribeiro6470]

I don't intend to disagree with you about the matter in a whole, but the problem is brazilian students tend to face Medcurso as a substitute for the solid understanding of basic medical sciences that comes from studying for knowledge outside of what is required in exams. I see it everyday, people pretend they study for four years and want to get away with studying what is necessary to pass the exam, regardless of how ignorant they are about the subject really. Medcurso is good and all but is not the holy grail of medicine learning, and never will be. Also, for students proficient in english there are plenty of material available, at a much lower cost or for free, that WILL prepare them if they know what they're doing.

[@harshalshinde227]

I shud say abt first point. Learning is easy when u love what u are doing and it's difficult when we don't love what we are doing. This is what I have experienced.

[@sunving]

Thank you Dr Eric Strong ! I am glad that watch this one . :) I am one of those who motivate and know little about subject :). Thank you very much

[@mitpatel6612]

Hey Dr. Strong, appreciate the video on studying in 1st/2nd years. I would appreciate a video on how to best learn from patients on the wards. As an M4 preparing for internship where I'll be making decisions on patients I know little of, how to optimize learning on-the-fly would be great!

[@shakirrapinnock3482]

Thanks for your insight! I appreciate all your feedback.

[@amreets7900]

Thanks for the shoutout!

[@StrongMed]

No problem. The shoutout is well deserved.

[@shgthmax]

Dude, you don't even know how far your cards have gone! I study medicine in South Africa (and will never have to take Step 1) and I still use your cards

[@amreets7900]

Man, that's awesome to hear. I'm glad they've helped. I still find it wild how widely my work has spread and how many students are finding it helpful - didn't expect it at all.

[@yourremarkablyaveragepal781]

Broooo, your cards have reached the Philippines! FYI

I'm applying your principles to learning a foreign language. Thank you!

[@masoodpaki]

Thanks a lot for your helping tips, I am already subscribed to your Channels and most of the channels which you mentioned in this video. Your videos are extremely helpful and updated and easy to understand. God bless you.

[@Sydneykittens]

thanx so much ,, It was great to cover the resources from which the student xan study

[@nmadhusu89]

I might also add the Acland atlas of Anatomy series of videos for first year medical students performing dissections

[@prantikachakraborty7330]

thankyou.osmosis really work.your ecg videos were the best..helped me a lot

[@fabrizioguerra8017]

Veramente grazie. Un aiuto importante per tutti docenti e studenti. Complimenti

[@StrongMed]

Prego! Sono felice che tu abbia trovato utile il video!

[@fabrizioguerra8017]

Grazie. sono un docente di ruolo della Facoltà di Medicina ed odontoiatria presso l'Università di Roma Sapienza. Se ci fosse la disponibilità a trovare un modo di condividere e/o collaborare sarei ben lieto. Saluti

[@souradeep]

So true! No doubt m a huge fan of yours!

[@adamrobinson6762]

Definitely some good recommendations. But I do have to state a lot of your opinions are typical of older physicians/professors - that is, First Aid and other some other resources give too much "esoteric" info. Reality is, Step 1 and Step 2 isn't what step 1 and 2 used to be. There was a good number of extremely specific and mentioned in passing in one chart in First Aid or something. I just finished up 3rd year and the shelves have some of the same. If I had time to just sit and draw out the blood supply to the pancreas I would be happy to do it. But I have to make sure I've at least read every stupid small association or factoid. Uworld is hands down the best at synthesizing the information and connecting the dots.

[@StrongMed]

Adam, thanks so much for your comment. While I do explicitly recommend that everyone should buy First Aid, perhaps I wasn't as clear in the video as possible. This video's purpose is to tell you how to study in order to rock medical school as a whole *and* in order to optimally prepare for your future career. It's not just about how to rock the USMLE. Knowing which chromosome a gene is on or which enzyme is faulty in some genetic disease absolutely might show up on Step 1, but it's useless knowledge for understanding how to diagnose and treat patients in real life. This is my biggest gripe with memory-association resources like Sketchy - I have no trouble believing that they help with Step 1, but I'm skeptical that they help people learn to diagnose infectious diseases in actual patients. Of course, this highlights a huge problem in med school - perhaps one of it's biggest: That Step 1 and 2 are very poorly designed exams that have very little to do with one's skill at being a doctor. (And believe it or not, they've always been that way, even for us "older" physicians! =P )

[@dr.firasqawasmi4253]

Hi, Thx a lot for your amazing lectures. I think that forgetting curve is in days (not weeks) , isnt it ?

[@ChambersKing]

Great video. Would there be any updates on the resources available now, 7 years later?

[@yanivitzigsohn2849]

This is the first video of yours I see and I have to say I am impressed. I will definitely see more. Man, the part about learning modality made me feel so uneasy. I was so sure about the learning styles. I was really happy to see you mention active recall and spaced repetition. Probably the most important aspects of learning. I always thought its more about review than the initial studying. As for cramming, the wooorst. The concept of varied practice/interweaved practice is really interesting, I recently have been doing this intuitively but never knew this had a proper name and was a study method. I wish I could do the synthesis practice, but I just don’t have enough time. As for sketchy and picmonic, totally agree. Never worked for me. I used lecturio and najeeb and found them to be amazingly helpful, especially lecturio. It accompanied me all throughout med school.

[@kyuhwanbyun3153]

thanks always for your wonderful lectures

[@jimkimm.d.6539]

As usual, great advice, but students should note that these are all general advice. Furthermore, this video is quite outdated (7 years ago), since which lots of amazing new learning tools have been introduced, like Complete Anatomy. With that being said, one of my greatest regrets from med school is paid services, like sketchy and BnB. You can do plenty well in school and STEPs using free resources (there are tons of amazing free resources on YT). Just because your friends are using Sketchy does not mean you should too.

[@StrongMed]

Thanks for the comment Dr. Kim. I think the first half (discussion of learning theory and general study strategies) is still just as relevant, but I agree with you about the second half - there are plenty of current popular resources that are not mentioned. I'm not familiar with Complete Anatomy; I think the most popular resource among my own students not included here is AMBOSS (currently $10.75/month), though I also completely agree with you that there are plenty of free resources out there which are sufficient to succeed - particularly now that Step 1 is pass/fail.

[@khalidosman578]

Thanks It is really helpful and good I love it, Keep up the hard work

[@ahmedelbosraty8047]

Khalid Osman excuse me brother, that flashcards are free or not , please

[@reeeeeeb]

Amazing video. Thank you as always :)

[@kharoozy]

Amazing video!

[@tomradcliffe8802]

When you said interleave learning, do you mean learning different topics in one discipline? Like going from ACS to Cardiomyopathies? Or do you mean learning wildly different topics like Antibiotics to Pulmonary Edema?

[@RossOCarroll3301]

This is great! Thank you!

[@kharoozy]

Amazing video thanks

[@jaquelinemanuel5716]

Thank you for the advice,

[@MedicEne]

A fantastic video!

[@NickAnthonyWrestles]

I will be staring as an M1 this fall. Would you recommend watching a general overview of a topic from external resources (such as osmosis) before tackling the details of a powerpoint or text book from a given course?

[@aravindreddyarikatla4116]

Thanks for the info bro

[@f.barrera6840]

Thank you!

[@GhanaBF]

I did better in subjects with terrible lecturers bcos I spent lots of time outside of lectures learning the material for myself. I knew I would fail if I didn't do this. This means I neglected the courses with good lecturers and relied only on what I got in the classroom. Good lecturers make a huge difference. The "studies" are wrong bcos they never asked the right questions.

[@اياتسلمان-ت8ف]

Thank God

[@zozetaalazzawi8174]

thank you very much ..it is very helpful ,i have enter to pathoma site but it require credit card to sign in and the videos that i saw was so helpful i am from iraq and we don not have credit card is there any other way to get the videos ....please

[@sophieteege918]

I did not get the third flashcard website. Firecracker, Osmosis and ---? Thanks

[@StrongMed]

Anki

[@FrankMayer]

Anki ankisrs.net/

[@zarnainkhan5870]

med education channel that i like in particular Dr najeeb nucleus medical media Professor Fink Armando hasudungan crashcourse AP playlist (for quick recall before diving into a topic for in depth study) noted anatomist Dr G.Bhanu Prakash Anatomy Zone AK Lectures(for bio chem) viren kariya(best osteology videos there are)

[@guerrechonnohcreugchatelai5333]

so cool!

[@liambyrne5285]

Os this good advice for language learning

[@gicugicu9140]

Can you do a video on how to study during residency?

[@StrongMed]

I don't know if there even is much time to study during residency, but the best way to learn in the limited time you might have is to read about your patients' problems/diseases and then immediately apply what you've read.

[@Rajasunny188]

What are the last two channels u mentioned?

[@mr-np7xr]

You are the best. This is great. Thank you!

[@ddhh2130]

Nice one #medicaltalks

[@Khalid_Rabak]

thank u

[@tadiwanashechigowe9029]

i downloaded anki but i cant understand how to use it, anybody please help

[@StrongMed]

I'd search the old posts in the medicalschool subreddit on Reddit. I'm sure people have posted instructions there before.

[@abdijaliilabdulahiali1655]

Thanks a lot.

[@nessiemonster862]

Is it possible to trasfer from med school in Bosnia and Herzegovina to Stanford and to get full scholarship ?

[@StrongMed]

I need to defer any questions about Stanford's admission policies to our school's admissions office: med.stanford.edu/md-admissions.html

[@nawrasihssin8031]

tanke you .Dr

[@khalidsalah9796]

Looking for study partner !! To master the material for step 1 and then 2

[@chasityj.4130]

I suck at auditory learning. Unless I am doing to hands-on work while listening.

[@aijtkumar2953]

thanks very much

[@Kencan254]

What's your opinion about lecturio?

[@StrongMed]

Aside from the fact that 1/2 of the commercials that play before my KZbin videos are from Lecturio, I otherwise am not very familiar with them - though after a cursory look at their site, it seems like they provide a combination of KZbin videos + a qbank. I haven't known of any students IRL who uses it (which isn't to say that it's bad, but rather just it doesn't seem to be a popular resource among US-based med students). At least for their videos, I would guess just about every topic has an equivalent free video already on KZbin (like on this channel, for example!) - it's just a matter of finding it and trusting the source. I would guess that between this channel, Osmosis, Noted Anatomist, and Armando, most major preclinical med school topics are covered.

[@SoyMagnumOpus]

Shout out to Ninja Nerd

[@sepehralaie6716]

Students get higher scores with bad lecturer because indian doctors make it easy for them on youtube,i personally woudn't learn coagulation cascade at hundred university professor classes if there wasn't youtube channels

[@StrongMed]

I'd like to think there were also at least some non-Indian doctors who were skilled at teaching via KZbin videos! ;) For example, I think my version of the coagulation cascade is pretty good (kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaXFi6iYrd6ojdk), and has the benefit of being based on the most recent understanding of the science rather than regurgitating an out-of-date review book.

[@sepehralaie6716]

@@StrongMed of course you are perfect and so much helpful❤

[@suparnasingh1]

Perfect itis

[@PasanBhathiya]

Hahaha...Grandfather of Online Medical Videos! Agree! But Dr Najeeb is too long to listen in a single sitting per topic. It maybe good for review when you have long enough time.

[@qasimaqeed2116]

I hope she added an Arabic translation to the video

[@طاهرسلمانسوادي]

🌺

[@joelf4183]

Thanks Dr Strong, extremely helpful videos and content. I'm not a great fan!

[@TalesFromTheSlumsOfMumbai]

If Odin wills it I will be a doctor ☝🏻

[@yahyame111]

Odin who?

[@litterdrop2077]

共勉

[@drveronicasharma]

make smaller videos . u r excellent but keep it short

[@ujalashujat]

Thank you!

[@عبادةرداد]

thanks a lot