I Hate Memorising, so I Created a System to Remember Everything

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Studying doesn’t need to be as hard is it feels: after 5 years in medical school, I just finished my final exams, and this is the method I used to study. I’ve been avoiding lectures since my first year of medical school, and using just one notebook, I’ve managed somehow to learn and memorise everything I was expected to know to become a doctor. If you also struggle with memorising facts and mnemonics (like me), hopefully this will offer an alternative! Let me know what you think! Thanks for watching, and best of luck with any exams you have, may your university studies always be as un-stressful as possible 🩵

Sources mentioned:
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3. Eisner, E.W., 2017. The enlightened eye: Qualitative inquiry and the enhancement of educational practice. Teachers College Press.

4. Hoare, C. H. (2006). Handbook of adult development and learning. Oxford University Press, Chapter 4, pg 73-98

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7. Kevin K. Birth: Objects of Time How Things Shape Temporality

8. Forgetting due to retroactive interference: A fusion of early insights into everyday forgetting and recent research on anterograde amnesia Michaela T. Dewar, Nelson Cowan, and Sergio Della Sala

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To make your life easier:
0:00 Intro
1:30 The Danger of Over-processed Source Material
5:03 BetterHelp and the value of therapy
8:00 The Learning and Memorising Side of the Notebook
18:26 The Daily Side of the Notebook

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