4.1 How do I get the maximum benefit from the lectures?
Prepare for discussion / recitation courses before class. This is called preview. Preparing for the lecture will help you to indentify the areas that you have difficulty in understanding. So when the lectures are given you will have a better chance of grasping the facts and will be sensitive to the topic that you do not understand which you can write down. Moreover, you can could also prepare questions on topics you don’t understand for futher clarification.
Should your doubt not be clarified during the lecture, be ready to ask the lecturer at the end of the session. Mark the difficult part with red ink. Allow no doubt in any area. Make sure you take good notes during lectures. (See Appendix 1 – Effective Note Taking)
Note : Schedule time to go over the lecture material immediately after class. Remember : Forgetting is greatest within 24 hours without review.
Appendix 1 – Effective Note Taking :
Record * Reduce * Recite * Reflect * Review
You can develop your own system based on a few elementary strategies :
Get a good loose-leaf notebook.
* This will enable you to add, delete and re-sequence pages and materials.
Develop an organizational system; include
* Heading such as the system you are learning e.g. CVS, the date, the lecturer even the number of the class (e.g. 3/34)
* A System of ‘sections’ to organise your notes
* Leave plenty of white space for additions. (This is especially important in the clinical years where the relevant revision of the basic anatomy and physiology of the system studied need to be revised)
Think in terms of three main sections :
A central space for identifying the main points capturing the main ideas not quoting the lecturer (if you want to quote someone, bring a tape recorder if it is permitted)
A marginal space for editing or annotating what you have written, linking information from the text or other sources and adding definitions – identifying grey areas or facts that you do not understand. This will serve as guideline for to read further on the lecture.
A ‘condensing’ or summary section. (Try to draw a mind map, flow chart or tree diagram for lectures that describe may things at one time such as pharmacology. A tree diagram will help to differentiate between the various ytypes of autonomic drugs. )
Taken from http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguiders/
(How to become a good & successful medical student; Muhaya Hj Mohamad)
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