How I Memorized EVERYTHING in MEDICAL SCHOOL - (3 Easy TIPS)

For a closer look at my Study Sheet - Watch PART 2 of this video!

Lasting knowledge results from clear concepts.

1. Find a study spot, create a schedule, get into a routine
2. Find a motivated, smart study partner - test each other on the material
3. Condense material into one note

I'm in nursing school and something I've found extremely helpful is tutoring other people. It helps for the same reason having a study buddy helps, but you synthesize the information so much better when you're able to break it down for somebody who's having difficulty with it.

Do NOT apologize for being tired. Thank you for what you do! I feel so bad for the doctors/nursing who provide educational videos who apologize for how tired they look. You guys are awesome!

I'm not a Doctor or med student but I often helped a friend study through med school in the 80's quizzing him on anatomical terms. It was mind boggling what he was expected to memorize in short periods of time. Much respect.

My straight A college student daughter says that taking notes, then rewriting the notes, then explaining the concepts (to me in this case, to another person willing to listen and ask questions) helps solidify information. She sets a study schedule, listens to lo-fi that keeps out other distracting sounds, then does her homework this way.

The 3 tips:
1. Get into a good study routine
2. Find a good study partner
3. Two techniques mentioned:
a. Study partners verbally quizzing each other.
b. Condensing topics into a single page to facilitate spatial recall.

My little cousin went to medical school at Yale & Harvard. He is now working in Boston as a pediatric oncologist. I am super proud of him. I cannot even imagine having accomplished so much already in his life. This world is a better place because of people like him & like you & like all doctors and nurses that take such great care of people everyday. The most important thing that you should remember, IMO, is that every patient that you take care of means the world to someone else. 💕 Take care! 🙏👍✌💪😷

This is exactly what I do! Rewrite each lecture/outline it onto one sheet of paper and it helps so much to see all the information at once. I highly recommend it for anyone looking to adapt their study method!

In engineering school I always organized a small study group of 4 or less students. I also chose smart, motivated students. For me, this tip is the number one way to be a successful student. The outline and using spatial clues when you weren’t sure of an answer is another great study tip. It’s surprising how much you can remember when you visualize that outline in your mind’s eye.

This was simply amazing... These are the exact strategies I've used throughout undergrad and med school and I can attest to the effectiveness of them all. Although I rarely used study partners, I know that I left some points on the table as a result.

Do you get grades in med school? In my Theology masters program i would tape every lecture. Go home and write it out or fill in the blanks from lecture notes. I would go over every set of notes every day. I would make a mock test on index cards and quiz myself daily. This helped me tremendously.

Who else is studying how to study rather than actually studying?

Thank you so much for the tips Doc! I studied Dentistry back in my country very long time ago and now I'm self studying to become a medical coder here in the US. I just discovered you today, glad I did! Thanks again! 🙏

Didn’t get a med degree, but did use the single note page approach. It is fantastic! It really is like your brain takes a photo of that page. Great advice!

I think note taking is the best (the act of writing out notes commits it to memory and then you can go over your notes again later), but it also takes the most time. Passed the pathology boards a few years back with my notes, and pathology is known to be the most difficult board exam to study for because you have to know everything about everything

Cellini is one of my favorite books, a Harvard Classic, contemporary of Michealangelo. I went back to university with 4 young children as a single parent. I studied at 1:00 a.m. in my bedroom especially on exam days. It was the only time that was without distraction. It was SO difficult but worth it. Holding a full-time job afterwards was even harder but rewarding as I taught school and enjoyed the students.

It's tough having a study partner when everything is online and you can't communicate with others like you would during in-person classes. But thank you for the other tips. I also color code and during exams, I'm mentally able to "go back" and remember material based on which color the certain acronym, word, definition, etc was.

Excellent, I feel sorry for the current generation because a lot of distractions exist in their life

Repetition, Repetition, and more Repetition. That's the key with really learning anything, especially when you've gone several days or more without sleep. Very important to have your body memorize things also because sometimes it's easy to forget some of the more basic stuff.

I cried my first day of medical school! The saying "Medical school is like drinking from a fire hydrant" is an understatement.

Excellent! I can relate to the importance of picking a designated study place. While in graduate school, I always picked one of three spots. Total focus, my goal was to contemplate the material for the evening and reach my study goal for the day. Then, I was free for some me time …

Can’t agree more about setting a routine and following through with it! Thanks for making the time to share your tips 👍

For me medical school began when I started with the pre requisites of Chemistry, physics, biology and math. I went into Paramedic school after completing emt, cardiology, pharmacology and iv therapy. It made it easy to form a base of learning. The hardest part was the first emt course. When I only scored a 76 and did not read the chapters only skimmed through, I realized that every paragraph in the book had a question on the test. My job was NOT to read through a paragraph and go onto the next until I knew exactly what was important enough to be that question. That it. Spend every moment you can absorbing the information.

the best way to remember is to understand

I graduated from veterinary school in the pre-tablet / smart phone / laptop era. Condensing notes on to actual paper helped me a lot. Example: weekly embryology summarized into one page of drawings / notes. Then for final you had a small bundle of paper to review anywhere.

Self decipline is the most important part of studying. I agree with getting a study partner but make sure they are positive, motivated, and are just as self decipline as you are. Thank you for the great tips. Good luck!

Michael, it took 10 years of agonizing learning experiences through college, medical school, and business school to understand the wisdom of your advice. In particular, the crucial importance of going to a specific location to study. You are not studying if you are at Starbucks. Sorry. Most important: you need to “struggle” with the material (like creating your one page synthesis or reading out loud). Don’t fight this “struggle”, rather, welcome it! Great video!
CA Zimmer MD, MBA

I am a retired, disabled RN, who, in the late 80's, early 90's, put myself through nursing school, achieving a 3.84 GPA, while a SINGLE mother of 2 very young children. I just had to really prioritize by what was the most important in caring for my patients. Of course this was before computers were a home option, without the web.

Brilliant! Currently trying to finish my 6 month licensing course in 2 months. Had a few of your suggestions in place and solo at home. But the condensing chapters to 1 page spreadsheerts and orally answering questions is brilliant. I want to know everything possible and we are our harshest critics. So, facing my toughest teacher in the mirror generates massive neural excitement.Thank You So Much!

Holy heck, the part where you said you visualise where the specific information is on a page when I told my friends that when I try to remember something I would close my eyes and visualise where that information is on my notes and they think I’m just crazy and thinks it’s just not possible 😤 glad to know I’m not the only one that do that

Agree with your tips. I'm dating myself as we didn't have Power Point so many years ago. The development of the repetition of studying, i.e. same place, times, schedule routine is very important. Also, the association with a study partner for me was extremely helpful. It keeps you on your toes and forces you to study and get things done. BTW, what Med School may I ask did you attend? Good luck.

I went to PA school, we had a study group of 6 girls and we split the material to condense it as well. 5 of us actually summarized it, in a table with important pictures, key words, gold standard tx etc. and the last girl took everyone’s sections and put it together in one document then sent back to the group, she did maybe 2 topics since she was putting it together and making it look easier to read.

thank you for this. my son is in medical school and struggling with the load. i hope this helps him. your approach to the 1 sheet spatial retention makes so much sense.

I really like the using the buddy method for studying. It cuts down on having to do all of the outlines yourself, and it provides an additional way of method of learning between the two of you. It’s very efficient, to boot.

Thanking you so much for sharing your tips for studying. Your tips will definitely help not only medical students, but law students as well. It will definitely help anyone in any school. Thanks for sharing! 👍🏾

I would never survive in med school lol. One of the worst things I hated in school was studying. Props to all you doctors out there who got through it

Joyful Day Dr. Cellini! Thank you kindly for sharing your tips! I'm studying for life & health insurance test. Your tips gives me structure!!! I'm sure you will do excellent in your career!!!

What a great doctor! Not only is he diligently working on his studies but he's also trying to help others along the way. He is awesome and the exact type of doctor I would want to go to if needed. Bless you and your career.

Thank you. Tip #3 is very helpful to me. I am bad at memorizing. When it comes to studying, I think it depends on your situation. As a mother of four young children, finishing up my Nursing Prerequisites, and trying to get into Nursing school this year coming, my study routine is at night after kids go bed and it really works well for me even though I don't get much sleep. Thank you so much!

Unfortunately I did not have a reliable study partner so I studied alone. But I’m amazing at understanding & retaining information since I apply most of what I learn onto everyday life and try to make it fun or into a game. Great way to learn when you can keep interested!

I love this! Love the idea of putting the power points onto one page of notes! I’m totally going to use that. Thank you!

I’m a freshman at college going for a nursing major. I totally agree with the daily routine tip 100%, I always go straight to the library after classes and put in the hard work to understand the topics in class. It totally makes me prepared.

Finding a study partner was the most difficult task for me. I just couldn't find one in a foreign land. I studied alone mostly, my class fellows would join in for one or two projects but they never stick around. Cultural differences do isolate you

My studying process was simple. Fast reading while marking anything that seemed important. On a second read i just focused on the info that i marked. Every 30 min i took a 5 min break. And i never went all night studying, i tried to get at least 6 to 7 hours of sleep.

I've always thought there should be a class on studying. At the beginning of each school year go over with students and parents, how to get organized.

This is so true for medical school. You have to change strategies multiple times because of the sheer volume of information. I found spatial recognition of notes was important but not neeeeaaaarllly as important as being able to verbalize the answers to questioning. A good study partner is key to do this. The other thing to do if you don't have a study partner is use your smart phone and go through ppt's and record yourself while making everything into a question. Then you can go to the gym and quiz yourself or do whatever and quiz yourself at all times of day and night.
The brain works by question and answer. If you can go through the question and answers recordings and get them all right a couple times your good to go ace that test.
Also, if want to do good on boards, find your colleagues who did well on them. Don't get advice from people who did bad or mediocre on boards.

I never learned how to study. How I made it through Psychiatric Technician school is beyond me! Except that we did have a small study group consisting of 3-4 of us. We were apparently the smarter group of the class. Now I want to go to nursing school. This info will help me greatly!

I had a photographic memory when I was an undergraduate. If it could be put down on a yellow legal pad I could memorize it. So I took copious notes in every class. When I went to law school all that went out the window. You have to be able to think abstractly and to apply from several levels of information simultaneously.

I am in PA school right now and I adopted the condensing notes onto one page and it has helped tremendously. High yield information and quick facts.

I'm older than you. Bella was my primary note taker in med school. This was before power point and computerized notes. I passed because of her and her phenomenal notes that she shared. She became a neurooncologist. I became a gastroenterologist. God bless her soul, she developed a neuroblastoma and was the first to pass from my med school class. I still cant fathom that.

Yes! Spacial recognition is totally me!! I like to squeeze everything of one subject into one page because I know things from location on the page. I would fold a white sheet of paper into 16 rectangles and fill it in. I use to hate flipping to the next page because I felt that a different page is a different subject and once one subject has multiple pages then I can’t remember which page the info is on.

My biomedical sciences high school teacher made us make enough notes to fit a copy paper sheet front and back of the entire either unit or semester units before the exam. When I tell you that made me remember everything I didn't and understand some of it as well. I really should use that again.

I read it out loud in a British accent to help with memory, I’m not sure why but it has always worked for me! 😂

This was such a great video! Thank you! I'm in an ABSN program now, but I'm also considering an NP or MD. This was really helpful.

Fascinating to see how people study. I was lucky that have a near photographic memory - so got through Uni and College of Law - just read and remembered....... Study partner sounds a good idea if it is something you need. I am also glad that I studied in a time when we had books - research has shown that you do not absorb information as well when reading Kindle as if you read from a printed page. Also the act of writing notes is a way of starting to embed info.

Omg yesss I study the same way! I visualize my notes in my head when I take an exam. Remembering how I ordered my notes and color coding them help soooo much when I got stumped on a question. Great tips!

What always helps me while learning is imagining that I am explaining the lessons to someone that knows nothing about it. Works every time👩‍🏫

I just started school for Ultrasound Tech and I am stressing! I am so grateful for your tips. 🙏🏻

Can't wait to start applying these tips to my life!! In Pharm. school now and I think these will have an enormous impact on my study habits!! Great vid. keep it coming! :)

I've been using the 3rd tip my whole life, it actually works, the idea of memorizing the area where we put the information it is awesome. It is really helpful.

The second time I practiced as a Physician in a Hospital before I went to Medical School at Indiana University and then transferred to North Carolina to finish my Doctorate. I was all of 19 years old and I was given 3 weeks to memorize the entire anatomy of man, woman, and child. I started with the heart and all of the various parts in it and that make it up. I really didn't have a system for memorizing such. I have what some call total recall. But, even that had it's limits. I started with the heart because without the human heart know other body part would exist or function. All mammals need a pretty constant blood pressure to survive.

In college I found intense concentration was the key to successfully studying while tuning out extraneous atmospheric stimuli. As a result, I could study anywhere. My grades reflected my academic success.

Damn💯. I know most of those tips already cause they’re super important. But I appreciate your input on the last tip and physically showing us what you and the other student did with excel and the PowerPoints. That really makes sense; With the outline and condensing down so much to one sheet. And I tend to memorize where things are in my regularly notes too already. I have to re-write usually and speak things out loud without looking at words like you said cause then you know if you actually know and understand or not. So this I feel this could really help, with just making my notes way smaller and the format of it, would be super important. I’m in my second semester of Nursing school and gotta make it through the RN, so I can keep moving up and get into another school 🙂. Thanks for your videos!

For memorization, studying the material 5 times a day is helpful. Studying away from home is helpful. A grocery store that has a Starbucks is great in the evening after the Starbucks closes. Ask the manager for permission. It was my favorite study location as business was dead after 8pm and that Starbucks closed at 7pm. Store had free wifi too. Pick one in an upscale neighborhood.

The one sheet study guide is genius! Thank you so much! Definitely will help us visual and kenetic learners!!! I’m actually excited about studying this way. Thanks again!

Both my kids are studying Nursing and I hear ALL what they have to study and its insane, NO one can remember 150 questions with such detail but yet expect students to remember this. I mean lets keep it real Professors out there listening. What some of these professors want, is robots, because humans dont download 150 questions with excessive detail. God Bless all the medical people AND I hope you are doing it to help humanity, not just for a paycheck, I pray daily against the later.

I been watching different ways of studying and I agree with your methods more🙂 I been 90s to 100 on my quizzes. I study best in the evenings while my kids are sleeping. sometimes I record myself and listen to them while I'm doing errands or multi tasking 🙂

Awesome!! I am on Psychology the first year in uni in London, will defo use your tips, make a lot of sense, LOVE them not only for brain anatomy but for statistics,too . Keep strong! You look great! I bet you love your Job> thanks for your time and sharing your

Mom of 2 here (went into medical school after getting other degrees). What you said is incredibly true but sadly impossible. I usually study at night (after getting my girls to sleep), and usually most classmates have gone to sleep or at least finished studying by then. During the day, I'm out of uni to get home, cook, take care of the girls...etc (so also can't study then). I follow tip 1 and 3 to some extent but tip 2 ...if you've got another version of it, do tell :P

with a routine, a partner and a summary, I hope these medical courses are going to be easier.

Thanks for your help. I’m in nursing school and I’m my 30s. I’m almost done but sometimes I feel my brain has reached its maximum capacity. I have 4 young kids and so many things going on but I am still pushing forward as hard as I can. Thanks for the tips.

I was fortunate to do a memory development course before going to medical school and as a result the medical studies was a breeze. If possible best to invest in such a course. Further stress management is vital for optimized performance.

Osteopathic MS1 here. Thanks for your videos!
I wanted to ask about approach. For context: I feel frequently that I do not possess the mental bandwidth to UNDERSTAND everything in medical school in the time allotted as you've described. I try to understand key concepts in physiology, biochem, genetics, like renal acid/base compensation, heart hemodynamics, cystic fibrosis, G-proteins, etc. and can get a passable amount of the factual detail of it to the point of being able to answer a multiple choice questions, but it isn't really useful in the sense that I'd be able to synthesize that detail stuff for real-world use. That being said, I do try to take about 2 hours a day to do something not related to school because I'm not interested in any of the money specialties and I don't want to get so depressed that I drop out, so I probably don't study the way that the ortho or derm gunners do. I'm thinking FM or EM at the moment.
I want to ask: for the stuff where you just learn it well enough to be able to answer a multiple choice question right, how much of the information they give you in preclinical is actually important to understand vs what you can go back and review later when and as you need it in your career?
Cheers!

Hello thank you for this video very informative.
I would also like to add that it takes a person an average of 42 times of hearing something before they commit it to memory.
I was in school before laptops and iPads so what I always implement it was have a notebook for taking notes in another for writing down does help reinforce things.
30 minutes per night for learning new materials in 15 for reviewing also realizing a test is subjective so everything that you learn may or may not be on the test
The nap before test do a small review get a good nights sleep wake up the next morning we somewhat calm go take my test and I always do good

I too enjoy many of the radiology resources you listed, however writing my own book helped me to grasp the basics. You might want to check out "CT & MRI Pathology: A Pocket Atlas"
Best wishes to you and your radiology journey.

This is so close to how I study. I also color code. I am able to memorize thing on location and color and that’s just how I remember. Also, physically hand writing my notes out, while color coding is critical for me. I don’t know why. I’m weird I guess. It works for me, which is what I guess really matters on things.

Spatial recognition.... you explained this so well. I was trying to explain to someone, how I recall information for a multiple choice exam. I was telling him that I always seemed to “see” my notes when I’m recalling the information. Thanks for that

Great advice for all students! Including this as part of some extra videos for my high school students to watch! I just found your vids and will share it off/on with my students! Stay safe!

I wish I had some of this when I was in med school. I finished one year and the politics at school turned me off and made see medicine is no longer what it was when I was a kid wanting to be a doctor (I started at age 40). The biggest issue was our exams had so many problems. They didn't proofread them and this led to numerous questions being dropped, in addition to questions being dropped for being bad statistically or profs wrote their questions and forgot to cover some of the material asked on those exams. In those instances, they dropped the questions and if you got them correct, well you were shit out of luck. I had two classes like that were I lost 15% and 17% off my grades bc of those problems and it killed my grades. The admin was like, well only 5 or 6 students were affected in this way, so we're not concerned about it. Several years later, after realizing how many students they were losing bc of this problem (instead of improving the exam issues which could have been easily corrected), they finally implemented a policy that you cannot lose more than half a grade (5%) for those problems. Still, that can mean a huge difference between honors or none and what kind of residency you land.
The other problem was material covered by each exam. Many schools I heard will end material for an upcoming exam at least a day prior. One of our courses (Molecular Fundamentals of Medicine- covered genetics, pathology, biochemistry, etc) would save mostly pathology for the day right before an exam. It was an entire full day of pathology and each lecture had 95-225 PowerPoint slides chock full of small font material or multiple pics. Additionally, unbeknownst to us until just before the third exam when they finally announced it when exam stats showed about 86% of the class missing these questions, was that when you go into slide view, there are are notes below the actual.slides. They finally told us that all of that info, often what was an extra slide's worth of material for EACH slide, was testable. One of the dean's put a kabosh to that practice very quickly bc one lecture had 220 slides and had an extra 240 pages worth of extra material in the notes for just one lecture that day!! That exam, we had 937 slides, an additional 848 pgs worth of notes below the slides, plus reading and 340 images from the slides and another 275 from reading. From that, there was 37 printed material questions and 22 image questions. All from 7 hrs of lectures the DAY BEFORE THE EXAM!! Literally no one slept the day before the exam and then we'd have lab exams or labs for Essentials of Pt Care or Osteopathic Manipulation Therapy.
When I left, I was devastated, but my family was tired if me going in by 5 am) (sometimes at 3:30 or 4) and studying until midnight 7 days per week. The only differentiation from that was days our huge yard (we were renting a house in the middle of a very rural community on the TN/KY border), my wife needed help with something like grocery shopping or house stuff, or once in a while to either go to church or an event where we got bonus ots for doing community outreach with doing blood pressure checks, health fairs, etc. I had to make plans just to see my family, go to church (which hardly happened), or just to breath. Holidays? What were those? Plus being in the middle of nowhere with crappy schools, my wife and daughters drove 45 mins each way where my wife taught and both my daughters could get schools with more opportunities. After I left, we moved closer to their schools. A professor of mine told me he got the admin to allow me the chance to reapply if I ever wanted to comeback, but he told me that he was becoming disgusted with medicine himself bc many of the health systems with which they partnered or various large physician practices had told them to begin to to.focus on patients seen per hour bc so many students were leaving school and being shocked. His exact words were "Medicine starting to transform into something where we are training mills instead of doctors.". Despite it being my and my family's choice (as my family would have broken up eventually had I not left) I hate to admit it, buy my lifelong dream of finishing medical school not being realizing put me into a three month depression. And to add insult to injury, after the spring gala to end the year, the admin forgot to remove my name from award voting and both the faculty and my classmates voted me as the best clinical student in the class that year. They asked if I wanted the plaques and I just laughed, although I knew I should have accepted them. My wife was worried it would make me more depressed. I thought about reapplying several years later, but the grading policy hadn't been changed and it was almost 7 years later when it finally did.
Thankfully, I am going to be starting my PhD in applied public health, studying health issues with first responders, especially mitigating toxic exposures and finding better ways of predicting issues before they become problems. It'll also look at protecting healthcare workers from contaminated patients & hospital disaster planning and issues facing disaster responders. After 15 years working in EDs and EMS, I finally found a use for all of my degrees in toxicology and emergency management that I'll enjoy. Ironically, several of my classmates from medical school called me during the next 3 years and more during residency and told me that I got the better deal or made the better choice in leaving early on. Quite a few were disgusted by how the attitudes became focused on the "treat em and street em" mentality and the whole patients per hour focus.
As has become a huge problem in the last decade, several didn't ever get residency slot. Today, almost 4,000 graduates each year don't get residency slots and with the pandemic, they began talking about graduating students early, which would have made the problem worse. Since 2010, medical school seats exploded, but residency positions only grew by about 19%. It's a terrible bottleneck. To those who have finished and having a great and fulfilling career, I congratulate you, as I know the sacrifices you've made and the torture you endured. My advice to pre-meds today is to really examine your undergrad preparation, you're weaknesses, and your dedication to this pursuit. If you have any academic weaknesses, prepare to have them blown apart by the rigors of med school so have a plan to mitigate those. If you're having any doubts about going into medicine or aren't willing to devote 110% of your life to this pursuit (and other doctors of mine agree with this advice), either don't do it, really take a hard look at why you want to do it, or figure out how to.do it before you go any further! Lack of planning for doubts or lack of dedication or doing it for reasons other than doing it for yourself or for the greater will leave either sputtering or very dissatisfied. If you're doing it for the money, you'd be better off doing an MBA and residents going through something like a surgical residency quickly get jaded by the fact that the salary you receive amounts to less than minimum for all of the hours worked!

I went to medical school BEFORE the time of iPads and PowerPoint. Oh well. Still made it through. Now I’m a Full Professor of Medicine and train med student and residents. The best piece of advice here is the “Study Partner”. Hopefully one that both Driven AND Giving.

Thank you for making medical practitioners not look boring💆

My wife is going to become a Great Pediatrician, and I will tell her all I learned here today. So, very helpful. Thank-you!

I can't even focus on the video, I just scroll down the comments while listening
That's how awful my studying is

Surprised to find that i am not the only one to study the way you do in technique no.2. This technique helps me sort out everything about that topic in one page and relate everything to each other step by step.

This is EXACTLY how I studied for my PhD qualifying exams! Great stuff Doc!

Thank you for sharing this. I have been doing the same thing for the nursing program I’m in. It truly does help and this video helps me justify my studying techniques and gives me sound of mind.

Interesting you mentioned spacial recognition. In a college environmental studies course exam, I could remember the name of a term when the definition was given. It wasn’t multiple choice. I wrote that I couldn’t remember the term, but it had something to do with sex, and it was explained near the top of page 19 of the text. The term was “panspermia,” and was defined exactly where I said it was. The prof was so entertained by it, he gave me half credit and told the story to the class. So there is something to this idea that the brain can be spatially organized!

Hi, Dr. Cellini! When you condensed your notes did you condense the summary of the slides or just fit everything as was in the PowerPoint notes given by your teachers?

The best way of learning for me is actually teaching, if that makes sense

i'm pre-nursing, not med school, but i'm still overwhelmed by the amount of information. having to shuffle through all these sheets of paper, trying to figure out what is or isn't relevant, is tedious. the idea of condensing everything into a single sheet is brilliant. instead of re-reading a bunch of notes you're taking out keywords and elaborating them mentally and you can "feel" where you're not as strong on the information so you can go back and review. thank you so much.

One thing I've heard multiple times over the years some variation on: "My brother wasn't the smartest one in the family, but boy could he study. He did really well in med school." I never heard, 'oh she's brilliant, aced med school without studying.' Med school is tough. I've had many doctors over the years and I wouldn't say I've noticed anything creative or brilliant about them, but the discipline, focus, ability to crunch information and the dedication seems very specific to good doctors.
The spatial aspect of the single page of notes is really smart and highly effective. As a former teacher and life long nerd, I would recommend to any student: learn how to study from doctors (med students). As a teacher, I would have students draw pictures/diagrams of the concepts, labeling as they went. When I went through these on the screen or the white board I would use the same exact color scheme. This was a medical school study tip from a doctor.

one thing i can say about studying is that its an ongoing process... you always try to improve the way you study and learn different tricks and tips... one cool thing I picked up especially for med school since there are a lot of new words all the time.. is memorisation by association of known words... for e.g. a rare sign of stomach cancer is something called leser trelat sign... to remember the word I associated it with a word I know like trailer for e.g. reply to this comment if you have any small tips or tricks

Love these tips! Completely agree with condensing things - shortcuts everything so much!😊

All of these are really very helpful tips for my study. My problem is with outlining, I don't know what things are important to study for the exam ans what not, because our prof. barely supports us with information regarding what is relevant for the exam and out not and I don't miss any important info.

Great video!! This is exactly how I studied in Med school too, and repetition, recall, mnemonics and drawing associations

Great tips! I’m an Ultrasound Tech studying for my RVT. I’m so intimated despite being in the field for a few years. Needed alittle refresher. Balancing work, family life is hard plus studying.

Love this video! I am currently at college right now watching this video. I am in school for medical assisting at the moment and I am exhausted. One of the hardest things to do for me is Dose and calculations. I just watch youtube videos on what i have trouble with and it usually helps! I commend Doctor's because you guys go through a lot! Good luck on your future endeavors!! Love love love the tips!! Thank you so much!!

Thank you Dr. Cellini! I’m a future Med student and I will definitely use your tips no doubt! My spatial recognition is something I use too and this will help so much!