Posts tagged Studying
How to Memorize Drug Side Effects (While Decreasing Your Study Time)b

I spent so much extra time staring at a textbook or lecture slides with no idea what I should be focusing on, hoping that the knowledge would magically burn itself into my brain. Spoiler alert: That didn't happen.

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You're Learning Medical Terminology the Wrong Way

If you've spent any amount of time on tl;dr pharmacy, you'll notice that our material doesn't read like most other sources of pharmacy education out there. In fact, it is almost nothing like it. This is an intentional move on our part.

Traditional thinking says that “Students have to learn the medical terms anyway. It’s better to just immerse them in it so they learn them more quickly and completely!” 

I can see how that might work if you're spending a semester abroad in France. But I'm not so sold on how effective it is for learning medical terminology.

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