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⚠️ These tips are all verified and have well documented evidences behind them. It is not that we are who made them, But we have only discovered them through some hard work.
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20 rules of knowledge formulation - supermemo.guru
For step-1 materials (Phase-1) follow USMLE-1 material brlow
Active recall basically means testing yourself (By asking yourself questions, by answering available questions, by solving cases, by utilising SGD questions and so on).
In order to study, you don’t need to put stuff into your brain, but rather retrieve information from your brain.
You can use online cases for example from **PassMedicine.**
One of the best ways of Recalling information is by explaining what you have just studied to a friend, or even to yourself. This way will try to simplify it so much that your brain 🧠 will retain it for longer time (How cool is that 😎)
Spaced repetition is a learning technique where you review material in an increasingly spaced intervals to improve long-term retention (Memorization). This basically means you need to review the hard information more frequently while easy ones less frequently so that the hard stuff become easy because you are repeating it more often. The easier the information become, the less frequent you need to review it and vice versa.
It seems a little bit hard to do all of this everyday, isn’t it? Well **Anki** is a web based application that lets you do this with no effort, It will ask you the hard stuffs more often so no need to count time for each topic. Here are some tutorial videos.
🔵Always combine Spaced Repetition with Active Recall, for example when you create Anki flashcards, make a good specific question and it’s answer on the back of the card. This way the App will Repeat your knowledge by asking you questions.
There are many times where you read a long lecture and lose yourself in the chaos of details. Don’t worry we have all been there, here is the solution: “Do not focus so deep on a tree such that you lose your way of the forest.”
Try to capture a bigger picture for the topic by building a tree of knowledge so that you know where does each bit of information fit in to the bigger picture. Here are two examples:
Regions & Components of the Head and Neck