Study Tips

Note: 2nd, 3rd, & 4th year students please email the webmaster (mshenaq@med.wayne.edu) with your own study tips.  We would like to make a section for each year.

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Study Tips

The real key to success in medical school is getting organized and having a plan.  Finding a system that works for you is important and sticking to it. Find friends to review with, it makes learning so much easier. Here are some other tips:

• create a folder for each class for each test
• use sticky tabs to mark each lecture
• buy a small white board and use it to keep drawing out pathways or diagrams, use all your senses to learn and understand the material
• after each days lecture review only that days material and try to memorize key points
• spend your weekend reviewing the weeks material and rememorize that material
• on the weekend do questions for the material of the week
• make a study plan at least a week before an exam to review all the material
• before the exam do as many practice exams as possible
• leave the last 2 days before an exam to review the really difficult material
• KEY: YOU MUST REVIEW THE MATERIAL AT LEAST 3 TO 5 TIMES BEFORE THE EXAM

Anatomy Lab

• Try to review what your dissection is for the day.
• Tie diessections to the lecture material to gain a better understanding.
• After your dissection is complete for that day, review quickly what you have found. If you could not find it on your assigned body, look at another body.
• Come in on the weekend and review each week's dissection.