Learning Techniques
This technique allows you to stay focused and motivated-it involves breaking down study sessions into short intervals with breaks in between.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
This concept is the ability to control impulses and resist short-term temptations in order to stay focused on long-term goals.
What is Self-Discipline?
This organ is responsible for both working memory, used for short-term tasks, and long-term memory, which stores information over time.
What is the brain?
This committee reviews the academic progress and professional development of each student during all components of the four-year medical education program.
What is The Medical Student Evaluation and Promotion Committee (MSEPC)
This office is committed to assisting and supporting students in meeting graduation requirements by providing guidance, learning strategies and essential resources.
What is Academic Advising & Support Services?
This learning technique offers significant advantages for memory retention and learning efficiency. By reviewing information at increasing intervals, it leverages the brain's natural learning process, enhancing long-term memory and making information more accessible for recall. It helps counteract the forgetting curve.
What is spaced repetition?
This state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion is often caused by prolonged stress and overwork, leading to decreased motivation and performance.
What is Burnout?
This learning strategy involves breaking information into smaller, manageable units to improve understanding and memory, often by focusing on core concepts first.
What is Chunking?
This policy evaluates areas of Integrity and personal responsibility, motivation for the pursuit of excellence and self-improvement, compassion and respectful interactions.
What is professionalism?
This service ensures full and equal access to medical training by removing barriers and promoting equitable participation in the learning environment, regardless of differing abilities.
What is Accommodations?
This method leads to better long-term retention compared to passive review methods, helps identify knowledge gaps, and enhances metacognition (awareness of one's own learning).
What is retrieval practice?
This concept is not about how much you want something. It is about how much effort you are willing to exert to get it.
What is Motivation?
This type of memory stores information for extended periods, from hours to a lifetime, and includes both explicit and implicit memories.
What is long-term memory?
This temporary period of non-enrollment, or suspension of studies has limited approved duration, and an established return date; it may be voluntary or involuntary.
What is Leave of Absence (LOA)?
This support service is 24/7, on-demand emotional support available via phone, video, or chat, to talk about anything, including anxiety, relationships, depression, and school-related stressors.
What is TimelyCare?
This term refers to thinking about how you are thinking, by reflecting on how you should best approach problems, what strategies to use, and assess whether the approach you are using is working.
What is metacognition?
This term refers to the principles or standards that guide a person’s behavior and help determine what is important in life.
What is Value?
This note-taking method involves drawing a vertical line down the page, placing key ideas or questions on the left, and detailed notes or answers on the right.
What are split notes?
This is the maximum number of times a student is typically allowed to attempt a USMLE Step Examination at most medical schools before requiring special approval.
What is 3x?
This individual helps clarify your goals and priorities, offers shadowing opportunities, provides AAMC resources, and is often sought advice related to your intended specialty.
What is a Career Advisor?
This four-step model that includes how to understand the task, set goals and a plan, learn according to your plan, and monitor and adjust, is used to become a self-regulated learner.
What is a Model for Being a Metacognitive Learner?
These goals are designed to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound to increase the chances of success.
What are Smart Goals?
This concept is an approach to organizing information to see how ideas and concepts relate to one another and is commonly used for brainstorming and taking notes.
What is concept mapping?
This term refers to the formal process initiated when a student does not pass a module, clerkship, elective, or selective, requiring additional work to demonstrate competency.
What is Remediation?
This School of Medicine department supports students by guiding them in developing research strategies and selecting the most appropriate resources for their question or topic.
What is the SOM Library?