How To Study Medicine in the 1st & 2nd Year?

 What ever you are learning, please do not become stressed.

Smile always, like our cute little cat! :)

Here are some of tips shared by our 'senior' med student on how he study medicine for the 1st and 2nd year. Hope this will help you.

1. Study SOMETHING each day. Even if it's just a half hour. If you stay on top of things, you'll be amazed at how much free time you have. If you don't, you'll wonder how anyone can possibly do it. Believe me, I've been in both situations.

2. No matter what ANYONE tells you, first year is about memorizing and regurgitating. It's not about understanding or expanding your knowledge like undergrad and grad school are, it's just a great big vocabulary lesson.

3. Your professors are there to make every subject more complicated than they are. They do this very, very, very, very, very, very, very well. They will give you all kinds of extraneous information and minutia, and totally cloud the big picture. Do not, I repeat, do not help them by making it more complicated than it is when you study. Your job is to figure out what really matters and memorize it. Your job is to teach yourself and find the big picture.

4. No matter what classes your school throws at you during the first year, the top priority are the anatomy disciplines. They will take 95% of your time, and they will be the reason for the torticollis you are suffering at the end of the year.

5. You cannot possibly memorize the enormous volume of information that is thrown at you. Figure out what you need to know, and what you don't need to know. Research on memory has shown that memory is a reconstructive process. Figure out how to take in information in small chunks so that you can reconstruct it later. Get with other people and practice quizzing each other. This will teach you to think in this way.

Good Luck!

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