SiLVeR

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SiLVeR

• Workshop on Study Skills for Medical School

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SPOT INFORMATION LEARN, VERIFY and REMEMBER IT.
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Learning is Like Compund Interest

• The earlier you startthe better you end up. The
  number of doubling times is the key!

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Dont Wait!
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Wait 5 Years!
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Wait 10 Years!
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The Solution

• Importance of building network of related facts
  so it all comes together
• Different temperament types have different mental
  files
• explore yours!

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The Problem

• An overwhelming amount of data
• A limited amount of time
• 3 to 3½ hours/day max

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The Solution

• Spot Information
• Identify the material to be learned
• Old questions
• Class handouts
• The structure of the material itself
• Commercially prepared summary book on subject
  (NMS books)
• Prepared questions for testbook
• Self Assessment for Robbins book
• Practice writing multiple choice questions from
  1-2 chapters in each course

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The Solution

• Learn it however you learn best Experiment!
• Group learning
• Reading in several texts
• Dictating into a cassette while walking
• Previewing
• Listening
• Reviewing
• Drawing humorous and/or non-sensical pictures if
  material wont stick
• Having friends quiz you off of your notes
• or other study methods

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The Solution

• Verify that you have learned it
• Classmates quiz you
• Cover up information
• Draw
• Use key word or phrase
• Find out if you miss questions that you had
  checked off as being learned.
• If so, change your checking method!

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The Solution

• Remember it by reviewing at intervals dictated by
  human forgetting curves
• While the temperament types file information
  differently, we all seem to forget at about the
  same rate
• very fast!
• So review within 24 hours, 7 days and 2-3 weeks.

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Learning Loss