Is it worth taking notes in medical school?

You need to know what you are going to learn (which is notoriously hard in medical school) before getting into the messy details. Notes can help you do this. By taking notes, you can go through all of the content in one swoop, helping you get an idea of what the important information is.

How can I memorize medical school?

Med school students use flashcards with spaced repetition to memorize facts. When the facts are too disconnected to be easily memorized, they use mnemonics and associative narratives to make it easier to memorize the facts.

Why you should never take notes?

The human brain, it appears, is wired to recognize when information is being documented, and to “intentionally forget” that info so as to be able to free up room for other things. It turns out, taking notes instead may simply be signaling to our brain instead to forget everything as quickly as we can write it down.

How do you take no notes?

5 pieces of bad note taking advice and what you should do instead

1. Handwritten notes are better than typed notes.
2. Write down everything you hear in a lecture.
3. Only write down the things you don’t know.
4. Revise for your exams by re-reading your notes.
5. Condense your notes into flashcards.

Why should you take notes in medical school?

You need to know what you are going to learn (which is notoriously hard in medical school) before getting into the messy details. Notes can help you do this. By taking notes, you can go through all of the content in one swoop, helping you get an idea of what the important information is.

Should you take notes in college?

So whether you should take notes depends on what helps you learn. When I was in med school, I took voluminous notes but some of my classmates relied solely on lecture notes we could buy or on the professors’ notes.

What are the two functions of note-taking?

You can think of note-taking as two discrete steps: process function and product function. The process function refers to the fact that the act of taking notes while listening to lecture improves your comprehension and retention, regardless of whether you review those notes.

What is the best way to take notes?

Almost certainly the most popular form of writing notes, this is the “default” way to take notes for most medical students. Typing on a keypad is incredibly fast and cannot be beaten by any other form of typing. There is also an endless number of applications that you can use to make your notes from Notion to Evernote or Microsoft Word.