eeg86 Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Hi everyone! I'm a current first year PA student and I was wondering if anyone has any advice on anything related to classes, planning for the future, career advice? I really want to make the most out of my time as a student and I don't know which specialty I want to do or anything like that, so any advice is much appreciated! Also, any study advice would be awesome! I feel like I'm struggling with learning things as quickly as I need to and don't know how to speed up the pace! Thanks guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ket131 Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Find a group in your cohort who you can study with and will not make you want to choke yourself. The other stuff you will figure out while you are making your way through the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moose1 Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 The book 'study without stress, mastering medical sciences' is a great place to start for study strategies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiovolffemtp Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Just try to learn as much as you can/survive the academic portion of your program. You will be exposed to many areas of medicine in you clinical rotations. That's when you should start thinking about what branch of medicine you will want to practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHU-CH Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 13 hours ago, moose1 said: The book 'study without stress, mastering medical sciences' is a great place to start for study strategies. This is a good book. Another good one is Teach Yourself How to Learn by McGuire. She talks about the importance of: 1. looking carefully at lecture objectives 2. multiple contacts with the material (pre-reading, paying attention in lecture, summarizing after lecture) 3. forcing yourself to recall the material (flashcards, self-quizzing, studying with a buddy) Counterintuitively, I have found one of the worst things you can do it re-read and re-read the text over and over again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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