#12 🥱 Stop your eyes closing in lectures
🙌Discover new study hacks and high-yield MedEd resources.
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Good Monday people!
Today its a sizzling 40 degrees - to mark the occasion, this week’s edition is packed with as much blood sweat* and tears, as my afternoon’s tube commute home.
This week, introducing another new study hack - actionable advice you can take when you feel your eyes starting to close in lectures. No matter how much you love molecular mechanisms of cancer or the DSM criteria for depression, we’ve all been there right?
And for the MedEd vault - an anatomy site you probably didn’t know about.
*mainly sweat
🙌 Study Hack of the Week: How to pay more attention in lectures (5 mins)
We’ve all endured lectures while having a GCS of 5 or less. Fighting the urge to pay attention can be a internal battle of mental resilience. How can you push through back-to-back lectures and maintain concentration?
Letting yourself slip into a lecture coma isn’t worth your time. Luckily, training yourself to maintain focus through lectures is a skill that can be developed.
In this blog we'll chat about how you can fight boredom - we'll discuss distraction techniques to study drugs . This blog specifically focuses on HOW to kick yourself back into paying attention, but Ive also got a blog on how to make the most of your time in lectures here.
🔓 The MedEd Vault: High-yield MedEd resources you may never knew existed.
🔦This week’s resource in the spotlight is: The Visible Human Project
🔗Access here: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
Yes it looks boring, yes it looks important, but that can only mean one thing… its a hidden gem. This is one for the HARDCORE anatomy fans.
Pros:
A full public library of labelled and unlabelled prosections of cadaveric specimens
4mm layers of cadaveric specimens with accompanying CT and MRI slices
A great resource for hardcore anatomy fans
Ethically soured from the National Library of Medicine, with thanks to the men and women who donated their bodies to science.
Cons:
Unless you have a module lead who has an obsession with anatomy, you’re unlikely to get tested on anatomy to this detail
But if youre gunning for anatomy based SSCs, intercalations or want to really test yourself, then this library will sort you out to an advanced level.
Its a pretty clunky website, designed by those who prefer science over UX and user interface design
👋Thats all for now - see you in 7 sleeps.