Nevertheless, I still had to use different tools and ways to make things go into my brain. Here are two examples of things I did this year to try and remember things. I would definitely advise categorising things in your mind - so in the picture below, you can see that I've drawn a diagram to help with the gross anatomy of the liver/biliary system and jaundice. I've split up the causes of jaundice into pre-hepatic, hepatic and post-hepatic; and this definitely helps when relating them to the results of liver function tests.
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Another huge topic were heart murmurs; there are quite a number of them and differentiating between them can get confusing, especially under pressure. I tried to help my brain with that by making a flow chart but I wasn't happy with the original version (not shown). Therefore, I redesigned it and added some colour coding - you can see this in the next picture. Although I haven't noted down every single heart murmur that exists, this is a start to remembering all the differentiating features of the most common ones.
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medicine is a complicated but beautiful profession. I love this kind of blog university help me a lot to take ideas and apply them in my studies, thank you very much. xoxoxoxo
ReplyDeleteAw thank you - good luck with your studies x
DeleteYour notes are always lovely!! I also condense information in diagrams and A4 posters as you do, it's such an useful and effective way of learning medicine. Love your blog! <3
ReplyDeleteThanks Carmen! Good luck with your studies x
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