hello,,, I’m back? can you believe?

Hello guys! I’m finally back after a more than 365-day hiatus. I had to take a well-needed break to give way to my mental and physical stresses. I’m okay now. Much happier and more motivated than I was back. 

You guys missed my first ever bullet journal I made for 2018. However, that was just a trial round. I’m still thinking about whether I should post some of my favorite spreads from that journal. 

Now, I would like to introduce to you guys my 2nd ever bullet journal for this year! Will post my january spreads soon! 

blog post 19th of february 2019

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[ 20 feb 2019 ]

41/100 days of productivity.

Hiii! 🌻

i am so sleepy wowow

So my (very cool) teacher was talking about this in class the other day, made me want to make a post about it.

The image above is adapted from the National Training Lab in Bethel, Maine. It basically shows how much information the average student retains when using certain methods.

Attending a lecture is only 5% and reading the material is only 10%.

Which could be a potential answer imo to why many people spend hours reading stuff and not retain most of it or not do well on tests.

Anything audiovisual increases the percentage of information you’ll likely retain up to 20%, having it demonstrated in front of you gives you 30%. Discussion (which can be done very easily) can make you retain up to 50%, practicing with your own hands means you’ll retain 75% and finally when you teach others you’ll retain a massive 90%.

So how can you implement this into your study routine to retain the most information?

Audiovisual: I think this is very easy, YouTube channels like Khan Academy cover almost everything, so go online, find some videos relevant to whatever you’re studying and watch them.

Demonstration: This is pretty much your teacher’s job, an example here would be anything related to social or hand skills, in my case interviewing and examining patients. At my school before we interview any patient or examine them my teacher does it first and we carefully observe. So whenever someone is demonstrating something pay full attention. And then if possible practice it (possibly with your friends as a role play) because that’ll increase the percentage of information you retained to 75%

Discussion: This is very basic and can be done simply by just reading the material before, preparing questions and engaging in brief discussions with your teacher throughout the lecture. Or if pre reading isn’t your thing just join a study group and discuss everything you’re learning over there.

I’ve already talked about practice briefly with demonstration, it’s pretty self explanatory (especially for OSCEs, for all you medstudents)

Teaching others: You can volunteer to tutor anyone or just take the lead in your study group. All of my teachers swear by this method. Some even suggest explaining to yourself if you can’t find anyone else but I have never tried it. (or force your family/boyfriend or SO to listen, that’s what I do)

have contact with this language by hearing it on movies, tv shows and music. this will help you with your pronunciation skills and with your vocabulary

learn vocabulary and grammar at the same time

read kids books and translate what you don’t know. it might be hard at the beginning, but keep trying 

speak to yourself will help you like crazy. I like to pretend that I’m acting or that someone is interviewing me hahah see the magic happens 

READ AND WRITE. this is as important as speaking. It used to be so hard for me to write in English and I felt awful because I could actually speak very well. But my writing skills were just a lower level than my speaking level. Thankfully it’s getting better with practice. 

try to study a little everyday. if you don’t have time to do so, watch a movie or something, but have this contact with the new language at least once a day

15·08·17 // 25/100 days of productivity

So I wrote some more biology notes! Also I think my calligraphy is getting a bit better. Wow I just realised that summer is almost over :(

Illustration of S T U D Y B L R S 📚😉

8.14.2017 // 1:10 PM

22.02.2019 3.30pm

Hey everyone! How are you all? I hope your week has gone well so far.

It’s been a busy but good week for me as always. I’ve had 15 lectures, clinical skills session, placement, a pharmacology practical, work and BME advocate meetings. As always I’m behind but I try not to let that stress me out.

Today I want to get some lectures made into notes and review some content from my previous block. I’ve got a practical exam on Monday so I’m going to practice for that this weekend but-as it’s just a practice run- I’m not going to spend too much time on it.

Anyway, here are a couple of pages from my anatomy lecture notes (yes I’m doing these three weeks late but I’ve done them now so it’s all good 😂)

Also, if anyone has any good tips on keeping up with everything/organisation/studying med tips/exams etc , let me know! I love trying out new ways.

Much love as always,