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.
Correlation Does Not Mean Causation
The medical and popular literature is rife with examples of confusing correlation with causation.
4 min readMemory 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 readeBooks Versus Print Books: Pros and Cons
When I was a medical student, the saying was that the highest grade would go to the student...
2 min readDepression: Often Obvious, Sometimes Hidden
A common problem is that many people may hear about these techniques and not try them, in large...
5 min readStress and Anxiety
When things are overwhelming, many people do feel a sense of loss of control. This always exacerbates stress...
6 min readFatigue In Medical Education
There is so much to know and so little time to learn it. There is a battle between...
3 min readThe Lowly Medical Student
As comedian Rodney Dangerfield used to say, “I don’t get no respect.”
3 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 readLearning Speeds In Medical School
If you are having difficulty keeping up, you may not be as far behind as you think.
1 min readMedical Curriculum In The First Two Years Of Med School
The juggler is more likely to succeed by practicing one skill at a time, and then, after learning...
2 min readShould Lectures Be Eliminated in Medical School?
Some students do not show up at lectures, and others do so because it is more likely that...
2 min readBenji's Shot
Now, when a person is really unconscious the arm will hit his face. However, if he is faking,...
1 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...
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