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.
How To Study Biochemistry
While Biochemistry has much clinically relevant information, the material students are taught often does not reflect this.
2 min readHow To Study Pharmacology
What is the best way to learn Pharmacology? This goes to the question of what facts are important...
2 min readHow Reliable Is Your Medical Information?
A lot of information is passed around, and since some of it is wrong, it is important to...
2 min readLearning Through Case Problems
There are so many case situations that have to be mastered, and spending too much time on just...
2 min readComplementary And Alternative Medicine (CAM)
CAM includes not only Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Chiropractic Therapy, and Herbal Medicine, but many other approaches to diagnosis and...
2 min readRevamping The Med School Curriculum
While this may seem to be a “minimalist” approach to education, it is not.
5 min readThe Best Ebook Readers And Reading Apps For Med Students
If you want to read using an ebook, which is the best tablet to purchase, and which ebookstores...
6 min readInformation Overload x 2
While technology has made it easier to find information, its distractions can be time-consuming.
2 min readShould USMLE Step 1 Be Eliminated, Modified, Or Open-Book?
Even the best physicians may have trouble with questions on the Boards.
2 min readMedicine's Alternative Universe
The hidden dimension is the hospital experience from the patient's point of view.
6 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #1 (Understanding)
Why go to the trouble of trying to memorize isolated facts when the facts could easily be deduced...
4 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #2 (Visualization)
People remember better when they visualize.
1 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #3 (Ridiculous Associations)
"These lucky patients, sleeping all day."
1 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #4 (Substitute Words and Pictures)
The fine art of pathological diagnosis
2 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #5 (Ditties)
There is not enough space on this blog to list all the excellent ditties and other mnemonics in medicine
1 min readMemory Techniques for Med School #6 Lists (Linking Method)
The Link method involves memorizing a list by creating a ridiculous association between one word or idea and...
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