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VLOG: Learning in Medical School

In this week’s post, Cindy and I (Althea) talk about our work with medical student learners. We have both worked for medical schools for a little over a year now and we’ve learned some things! We discuss common challenges for learning in medical school, efficient learning strategies, learning in the context of attentional disorders and anxiety, and what it means to prepare future healers.

Notetaking Formats

One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that students need to learn, and need to learn fast. One of the areas that I help medical students with is in improving their notetaking to help them manage the “fire hose” of information. 

GUEST POST: The 5-Sided Flashcard

The first flashcards were probably etched on small stone tablets by anxious cave-students.  Innovations since then have included printed cards, new fonts, color, and the ability to design flashcards on-line.  But I’m here to tell you about what I (humbly) consider the best innovation ever:  The 5-sided flashcard.