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How my friend ranked 1st at Medical School - The Active Recall Framework

Ali Abdaal

3 recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2019–2024

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Active recall framework for studying medicine.

3 comments from Reddit

  • @Spare_Elevator5544 · 2024-05 · in “A detailed study method for medical school.”

    …my weekend open for flexibility but I’ll get there. I upload all the lecture slides to Goodnotes but don’t annotate them so any PDF storage app would work fine. While watching lectures I use a method I adapted from an idea I got from an ▶ Ali Abdaal video. As I watch lectures I write down questions . These can be as simple or complex as I need them to be. It just depends on how I feel about the content and the dep…

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  • @flamebows · 2020-04 · in “[Serious] Your Opinions on Reading Textbooks?”

    …unproductive. I'm wasting precious time with reading textbooks, writing notes, and trying to grasp it all instead of using it as supplemental resource. I would rather read/watch lecture, apply it with Anki, or creating question sets (ex: ▶ Ali Abdaal's video). If I'm still stuck on the concepts, then I will definitely pull out the textbooks. Is this an approachable way of tackling med school? How do y'all feel abou…

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  • @samarabass1998 · 2019-12 · in “How do I incorporate Active Recall method for step 1 preparation?”

    ▶ link This is the video I was referring to. watch it :)

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