So, yes…It’s true…I’m hooked
the Internet is my new cable television – when I didn’t have reliable internet OR cable TV, I tended to be much more productive. I’d leave school to study – I’d go to a coffee shop without WiFi to buckle down – and even though it was more costly, it was also more PRODUCTIVE. I actually understood pathways. I’m committed to figuring out the right mix…I need the correct recipe for studying harder, and more productively. I recently came up with a few solutions…
1 ) Work on definitions and vocabulary – looking at medicine as a field where I’m basically a translator/mechanic, I can understand that talking the talk is JUST AS important as walking the walk, because it helps…no allows you to understand how the machine works. So I’m reading the lecture notes looking for concepts but also parts and vocabulary. If I know how the parts work and how the vocabulary is used, I can probably figure out the tests, which allow me to actually learn how to ACTUALLY take care of the patient…right?
2) I should keep MDConsult and AccessMedicine ON in my browser – I need to browse them like I browse the New York Times…it should be part of my nightly repertoire of websites to visit, interact with, and learn from – I learn from exposure, so if I can manage to increase my exposure to a moderate amount – expose myself to respiratory/pulmonology when that’s what I’m studying, I can come out ahead, and on top…the real key to dominating in the model of grading that I’m dealing with is RULING in PBL. If I just look like I’ve outpaced everyone in terms of aggregating new knowledge, but I still know inside and out the basics, I can dominate this game. That’s my strategy. Memorize the lecture notes verbatim, know a little bit about ALL of the pathophysiology…Every physiologic process has a pathophysiologic counterpart – my job is to know them… oh…Jennifer is calling…
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