Hi, everyone, [so] this has been a very very frequently requested video on how to take notes
So I've been compiling my ideas and have been taking notes that I just want to share them with you guys
So step number one is finding [your] crew
Considering the amount of notes that you have to take in that school
It's probably [going] [to] be best if you have two or three other people taking notes with you
make sure you can trust your crew because these are people who are going to be writing all the information in the notes if you're
Going to be doing it the way. I did you're going to be getting most of your study materials from your notes
So make sure that
What you think is important they also think it's important, so before the start of the week
Me and my group of friends we would divide up the lectures into three parts
So there are three of us, so we would divide Villager's up equally and then we would write up the notes
before the lecture
and we like to do it before the lecture because it kind of works out [as] like a preview of the lectures, so
When you actually go to watch or you're listening to what your professors are saying you kind of have an idea of what they're saying
Already and that's really helpful
Another reason why you want to have your notes?
Before the lecture is so that you can print them out or have them on your computer
And you can write along as lecture is going on
sometimes the lecture is like to have some random picture that they like to use to explain a concept so if you have to let
You can sit in front of you you can just draw along with the professor
so [onto] [the] actual process of
Compiling your notes the way. We did it is we would go through the powerpoint lectures and we would basically make an outline
Okay, so this is this on the left side is a powerpoint of a lecture that I received in back in november from my cardiology
Course and on the right side is some Microsoft word document where I made my outline and it eventually turned into a pocket
First I always like to write out on top the lecture the topic and the week and the date and this makes it very easy
orient myself and
It's very easy to find a letter that I'm looking for later as we're actually making the outline
For the most part I'm writing most of the text that's in the powerpoint
Sometimes that means just copying and pasting if the format doesn't work out it depends on the powerpoint
but if it doesn't work out
And I'll just type out the words for a lot of these long lists that I know aren't going to be that important
Might just skip them
I include some of the pictures that I think will be important and knowing what's important
And what's not important?
Just comes with experience and it depends on your professors and what they'd like to emphasize
So you just have to kind of figure that out on your own?
So you can see there's a lot of pictures and [you] can see that
I didn't include all the pictures for the most part I'm writing a lot of text
Some of these ultrasound or the echo Cardiogram images
I'm skipping them because it's important to know but it doesn't [need] to [be] in your packet
and they don't they tend to not print as well, so
I like to include in my packet strictly the information that I like to have [for] the exam, [so]
a lot [of] the pictures are skipped
I organized these based on how the lecture is organized, so
it's a good idea to go through all the lectures at first and just sort of preview what the [lectures] going to look [like] and
then get started on [your]
outline a couple other things I
like to have all the Format to be
More or less the same so this you'll just have to decide with your group on how you want to do it
For me. I like to have the Margins as narrow
and
For font I like to be arial to not size [nine] or [ten]
and for the
Bullet Point Outline
[when] you click on the [blue] point outline here, it'll show [up]
that's like indented in but if you do a shift
Tab it'll push it all the way to the left so that that saves a lot of room when you print things up
so that's pretty much how I make all my
Lecture packets, and it looks like a lot this whole thing is 12 pages, and I believe this is
three lectures and de
[comm] but if you have a couple others who split it with it's really manageable, and it's really helpful when
When the exam study time comes, and you just need to look at your packet to study
And you don't really need to look at these I 100 or this is a 76
Slide Powerpoint because I can take a lot of time, and you don't know what's really important, and what's not important
Okay, [so] this is the actual physical packet of the document that I just [showed] you guys
On the screen so as you can see there's some highlighting on there
[there] are some pictures that I drew on the side and some notes that I [took] on the side
And that's from actually listening to the lecture remember you're making these packets ahead of time
So you're really making them before you know what the lecturer is going to say?
So a lot of times professors will add on certain things or will draw some things on the board that you want to just have
On your notes as well, so this is why it's also important to just have these ready before the lecture
So these are what my notes look like?
So step number three is take advantage of tables and images. So there would be a lot of times when A
Disease [process] or like a group of diseases will be explained in like 10 to 12 slides
But you can really condense it into one table, and that's a really efficient way [to] organize your thoughts
[another] good thing about having tables is you can
on Key the table
And you can use that as a study tool to memorize things before the exam you guys want to find out how to arm Key
Tables definitely check out my memorization tip video in the past all the get right here
So for certain subjects it might be helpful to study in an entirely different way, so instead of making that line
Let's say for [example] some calculation. Heavy subjects like acid-base
Questions it might be helpful to just make one page study guide on how to solve [activate]
Questions and refer back to that acid-base
Sheet so that you can solve any problems relating [to] that topic
Another example will be anatomy or biochemistry where you might be doing a lot of drawing
and drawing out pathways and drying out structures rather than looking at words that are in an outline, so
Depending on the topic you might have to adjust your studying a little bit. It'd definitely be flexible and find out. What works for you
Lastly be creative and do what works for you?
This is how I did most of my studying during the first second first two years of med school
But this might not work for you
and I know a lot people who did it different ways and their ways were just as good as mine, so
Don't think that you have to stick to someone's way
Specifically just be creative find out. What works for you and
And I'm sure you guys [will] do well
[some] general tips if you decide not to use any of my tips for note-taking
[the] following tips will be helpful for anyone in
college or med school or whatever educational setting
some good ways to take good notes in class would be to
actively participate in your lecture, so
Whether that means going to lecture early or even if you listen at home be an active participant of Electro rather than a passive [observer]?
so if you have questions, definitely ask questions there in lecture, or [you] can email your professors and
There's your notes aren't gonna do anything for you unless you review the notes
So definitely review your notes and have a schedule of how you're going to do that
So either at the end of every day or at the [end] of the week?
have a schedule that works for you every year notes consistently [by] [friends] Sam had a system of using different color highlighters, so
he will use yellow highlighter for the first time she was reading her notes through and then pink for the second time and then
Either green or blue for the third time so going from lightest color to the darkest color he would know exactly
How many times she's [threw] a packet of notes so that worked for her that didn't really work [for] me?
But I think that just finding out your own
Technique will be very helpful [okay], so that's all the tips that I have for taking notes
[I] hope you guys found it helpful if you guys have any questions leave it below in the comment section and
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