The Goldberg Files
Crush med school stress with tips and tricks to excel in your journey to becoming a top-notch clinician.
Crush med school stress with tips and tricks to excel in your journey to becoming a top-notch clinician.
Memory Techniques for Med School #7 Lists (Peg Method)
If someone were to give you a list of 100 words or ideas to remember and then asked...
4 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #8 (Memory Palace)
In the Memory Palace you simply visualize a walk through a place that you know well.
3 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #9 (Chunking)
In chunking, you try to break up a large list of items into smaller chunks, each of which...
1 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #10 (Acronyms)
With acronyms, the first letters of the items in a list are put together to form a word....
1 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #11 (Hands-On)
Despite the value of the 10 memory methods discussed in the preceding posts, perhaps the best teacher of...
1 min readStudying In The Clinical Years
It can be difficult, particularly when tired, to come home and focus attention when the literature does not pertain...
2 min readHow To Study Anatomy
It is better to learn the anatomy conceptually, as through line drawings, and then fine tune this knowledge
2 min readHow To Study Neuroanatomy
It occurred to me that the learning of a subject has a lot to do with the grasping...
3 min readHow To Study Biochemistry
While Biochemistry has much clinically relevant information, the material students are taught often does not reflect this.
2 min readStudy For The USMLE
Have you at the end acquired a broad understanding of the fields, or are you left with isolated...
3 min readPattern Recognition In Diagnosis
Humans are expert in recognizing patterns, but often come to the wrong conclusion when they read too much...
2 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #1 (Understanding)
Why go to the trouble of trying to memorize isolated facts when the facts could easily be deduced...
4 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #2 (Visualization)
People remember better when they visualize.
1 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #4 (Substitute Words and Pictures)
The fine art of pathological diagnosis
2 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #5 (Ditties)
There is not enough space on this blog to list all the excellent ditties and other mnemonics in medicine
1 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #6 Lists (Linking Method)
The Link method involves memorizing a list by creating a ridiculous association between one word or idea and...
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