But for the most part, try to get a scheme in your head of how everything works that you can pull up when you need to, to answer questions.īhavsar: Do you have any final piece of advice for the medical students currently watching this video? That type of detailed memorization maybe has some role very close to the exams you want to memorize certain factoids and things like that. The answer is not right there in the middle of my slide. You could have an exact picture in your head of my slide on cirrhosis, but the question asks you to apply it to a different scenario. Ryan: In general, trying to memorize every slide in my lecture series is probably not the best approach because, like I said, you're going to be asked in the board exams to apply this knowledge. Once you've got them in your head, it gives you so many tools when you're faced with difficult questions or even clinical scenarios when you get out into the third-year rotations.īhavsar: As for our next question, what should students not be doing when using Boards and Beyond? What are some of the worst practices, some things that students should definitely not do, when it comes to studying your lecture series? My philosophy for Boards and Beyond has always been to try to break things down into easy-to-understand language and make the disease and the physiologic processes clear to students. If you really know how that disease works, if you understand step by step how it occurs, then I think it's so much easier to answer questions.

Memorization will get you something, because you certainly have to know things.

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