013 - Studying with mind maps
Topics discussed in this post:
🧠Studying with Mind Maps
📚Revision card - Post operative pyrexia
🎥 Youtube video - Differential diagnosis: anemia
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Studying with mind maps
Everyone has the capacity to get high grades and recall large amounts of information. The only difference between those actively practicing this and those who aren’t is how they learn.
Learning is an essential, continuous human activity and has important implications for school, career and life. In all of the years we spend in school and university, did anyone teach us how to learn? In most cases, the answer will be no.
Struggling students vs. highly successful students
Struggling students - are preoccupied with trying to absorb all the information they receive. This information does not get processed into long-term memory and end up in short-term memory.
Highly successful students - apply an information filter early on in their learning process. They select what is important to learn and make a conscious decision to absorb only key concepts, which enables them to learn their course material better.
It is not information overload. It is filter failure. — Clay Shirky
Concise Learning Methods (CLM)
CLM’s are a visual, flexible, meaningful, and systematic approach to effective and efficient learning through the use of an active, inquiry-based, and constructive process. It enables us to break free from passive and dull memorisation.
Visual maps help consolidate the key concepts from numerous class-related materials into one place and reflect understanding of the information given.
It helps avoid repeatedly going through various notebooks, textbooks and loose pieces of paper to find that lost piece of information.
Here is an example of a template of how to construct a visual mind-map
Here is an example of how I have been using mind maps during medical school and even post graduation:
New YouTube video!
This week’s YouTube video is about Differential diagnosis of anaemia
Revision card of the week: Post operative pyrexia
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