Friday, April 19, 2013

Other ways to study: Videos for visual learners


Different people have different learning styles and this can make it difficult to prepare for standardized exams. Personally I am a somewhat visual learner so I really appreciate charts or images to help me study. One of the tools I discovered when preparing for my exams were YouTube videos on health topics. These videos are informative and were great review for me. Often I would watch them as I ate or when I was taking my study breaks since they require little effort. I did not rely heavily on them but like I said, they offered a different way to repeat and strengthen the information I was reading as I studied.

Here are some links:

Dr. Najeeb – I especially liked his lectures about antibiotics (this is a link to the first of 4 videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9U_JDMgB7M&feature=related). He has other lectures also available on his YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/DoctorNajeeb?feature=watch).   

Armando Hasudungan – These are really creative and pictorial lessons for a multitude of therapeutic topics (http://www.youtube.com/user/armandohasudungan?feature=watch). He has a specific section for pharmacology (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL601B2E69B03FAB9D) but I only found the hypertension videos useful.

There are many more (although these were the ones I watched) and if you search key terms, like pharmacology, I’m sure you can find others.

I also must stress that you watch the OSCE vignette videos that PEBC has online (http://www.pebc.ca/index.php/ci_id/5021/la_id/1.htm). These are sample scenarios that prepare you for what to expect on the actual exam.

I hope this helps!

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