Taking Notes in Medical School - How to Survive Medical School #06

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[@rizwanadar3385]

Really helpful

[@emdirivera]

I think I take notes for the organization of the information. It really helped me especially when I take it by hand. I think it's because I'm a scribble and/or read learner.

[@allyssa1523]

Same. Especially when I take information from a bunch of resources from different books, notes and practice questions and I’ll just group all of them tgt but the thing is, this takes so much time. In addition, I have this bad habit of writing everything down but in point form because I’m scared I’ll miss out something that would’ve come up in the exam. So yeah, I’ve been trying to avoid that though.

[@uprise.6183]

Yea it help me to understand and memorise information easily. But it takes a lot of time to write.

[@Jonathan-bu7iv]

For me it's about slowing down my brain. My reading is really fast, as if I'd have ADHD. Writing stuff down forces me to slow down and focus on each word a bit longer, and thus it sticks. Especially if I talk to myself like a crazy person.

[@akshatmishra1000]

@@Jonathan-bu7iv This is sooo relatable.

[@sslearningstudio4018]

It’s important to take notes because it summarises the topics which are important. I don’t want to open big books again and again and instead open the big book once and then use my notes whenever I want.

[@trophycreates442]

Absolutely

[@aformula4198]

You have your Teacher's notes for that or you could use revision resource

[@sslearningstudio4018]

@@aformula4198 We don’t. And your own handmade notes are ALWAYS better for revision because they are in your own wordings.

[@indirapaudel5360]

True.

[@sudiptodas0001]

> Notetaking is useless > Also makes 69th video on notetaking apps

[@ChristinaAaliyah]

I've notice notes never help me to understand, its flashcards and active recall that really help me to understand.

[@ricardozc9541]

I appreciate these kinds of videos.

[@AWATales]

Why for me notes taking is the best way: -Me during 1-3y: taking notes for everything --> not much life but an average of A -from 4th year: watched all these "don't take notes", "do flashcards", "do QB" -> wasting my days, avg C+. for me, flashcards are pretty useless, as I answer them, I actually answer by remembering things like "oh yeah the flashcard starting with the word X, the blank was Y". And whenever I encounter the topic in real life, I sometimes had no memory that I even had this already as a flashcard. plus, I found it so monotonously, that I found myself doing anything else, but studies... on the other hand, I still remember a lot from my notes from ana/physio/patho

[@ainokoski4303]

I personally think that taking notes helps me because i can combine information from many resources and put it into my own words because that helps me understand and memorize the information. If that didn't matter I wouldn't take any notes.

[@alexandrar.4900]

Omg I’ve been following you for over three years now...why am I just finding out about this second channel of yours?!?! 🤯

[@TheDentistryDiary]

Seeing your friends and the room set up reminds me of watching these videos on tips on how to pass your uni interview. I was sat taking notes to pass my interview for dentistry back in early 2018 .... and now I’m watching this taking notes for my PBL research just about to have my exam next month ... 😬😬

[@sanniichigo949]

It's frustrating that my whole education career up until college, I was made to believe that notes are the necessary foundation for studying

[@nicestuff8755]

I got piles of papers and notebooks full of notes that I never read after I wrote it (maybe once). I don’t plan on reading them, now I just write Formulas, systems or Steps, that’s it. Things that need a specific process.

[@User-to7nb]

I take notes so the iPad Pro CONSTANTLY to stay awake and I feel the people around me getting nervous. “What is she writing? He didn’t say anything” Meanwhile I doodle and make extra diagrams to make sure I remember exactly how he described it.

[@heyariwhatsup]

Sameeeee

[@aleynacabuk7352]

I only take notes at lectures where our teachers don't give the slides and for other lessons ı just prepare an outline for slides to make them more understandable for me since they are a mess, bunch of random stuff taken from textbooks.

[@maegodragon]

Great fast speaking, and well explained perspective!

[@drsholenacharya3071]

What if you are reading a textbook and each chapter is more than 50 pages?.. is underlining the important points enough? Is summarising these with a heading above not required for a last minute revision? Of course, we don’t have good revision resources for all subjects!

[@doctormobin]

Dr. Sholen Acharya, hellow! I am from the same profession & would like to share the same opinion with you. Our text books contain hell lot of information like you said which are not in organized way at all. Can we read the whole paragraphs of 50 pages before an exam for revision? Unless everyone have a photographic memory like the GOOD DOCTOR.!

[@timothyl8079]

Hi Ali, any thoughts or how to take notes from journal articles and organise them in a way that's efficient to review different papers on the same discipline effectively?

[@joaomariacruz5892]

Hey Ali, I agree with you, I only take notes using mind maps/spider diagrams. Btw Your content is great!

[@User-to7nb]

Omg I make flash cards for my batch in medical school and my username is always “Survive Medical School” I should’ve copy righted it 😂😂

[@BahaaSharaf]

I think about taking notes as forming my own vision about the subject by using diagrams or drawings that make studying more fun and I am not necessarily putting ALL the information in my notes

[@talia.augustine9159]

I’m a first year medical student and I was the kind of person to makes notes systematically but now it’s just too time consuming and I often exceed the amount of time allocated to a specific online lecture. I’m going to proceed to make notes on my iPad by annotation. 😭😂 the universe is telling me something because I’ve wanted to go this route from last month 🙈

[@robeccawu2133]

i agree with you.but sometimes i may think it's a waste of time. so i try to find some effect way to take notes.

[@nasserismail3157]

This is the hell of which I have chosen to die.

[@raghadraghad7976]

for me summarize 100 slide into 2 or 3 helping me when I am starting review

[@alias1267]

You look like brett from twoset

[@arthurmathews5554]

I don’t insist on taking notes anymore. cf. 4:40

[@onkartengse9442]

So the Cambridge University also sucks in teaching..😂

[@deadpoet566]

Hey ali i had just one more question did you follow this tactic in your 11th and 12th ?

[@robeccawu2133]

yes，i agree it. but it really need lots of time to take notes. www so sad. Maybe i should find a best way. such as X mind

[@swethamurugavel2265]

What if u were never give the hand out or the professors don't share the ppt with the students . And we have to go through the textbooks.

[@KiranSingh-es2ot]

I think this is more targeted towards more western countries education system. In universities in UK, US, Aus etc, lecture PPT gets uploaded for students on their university portal and all other resources are uploaded prior to the lectures. That way, students don’t have to try and write down everything said in the lecture. It’s extremely rare for professors to not share the notes and can even be detrimental. I think if your lecturer doesn’t share notes on the lectures, you may have to create your own notes. For us though, it’s pointless to create notes when notes are already given to us with all learning objectives defined and each ppt is shared.

[@carzz]

Yoww You're a good rapper.

[@cheatted3918]

nice video

[@AceHardy]

✍️

[@BarelySaneGenius]

It took me WEEKS to realize that taking lecture notes is pointless

[@imranmahmoud8198]

What about for students who cant afford the apple tablet you mentioned?

[@sslearningstudio4018]

Take notes!😌

[@simplychi9418]

I find it so strange that all these people throw away their notes lol.

[@dakotaobrian]

Do what works for you

[@joessonguf]

💛

[@marya4395]

"Ali's appendix" :'v

[@mohammadyousuf162]

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