Hi, this is Tom from zero to finals.com. Welcome to this bonus episode where I'm going to be going

through something completely different, which is my thoughts on how to learn medicine. I'm thinking of

starting a completely new YouTube channel and podcast all about how to learn medicine. I'm thinking of starting a completely new YouTube channel and podcast

all about how to learn medicine and this is one of the episodes which is here for you to

sample to see whether you like it. If you do like it, do get in touch with me and let me know

you'd like to hear more. If this doesn't interest you or it's not

helpful for you, don't worry. The next episode will be back to the normal scheduled medical

topics and we'll be starting all over again with medicine with updated guidelines and more

information and hopefully better episodes. But for now, here is a sample of the How to Learn Medicine content

and an episode on making notes.

So let's start by talking about why people make notes in the first place.

And I think there's three reasons.

The first reason is encoding and storing that information. So they actually

use note-taking as a way to learn the information. Second reason is as external storage, meaning that

they're trying to take all this information that they're learning and put it in a single place in their set of notes

where they can come back and reference it later or review that information later on. So the note taking

is a way of storing that information externally somewhere to come back to later. And the third reason

is that making notes makes them feel like they're doing something.

So sometimes it can be difficult to know what to do when somebody says, go and do a study

session. And making notes is a way to feel like you're doing something and at the end of three

hours or four hours studying in the library, you feel like you've

achieved something. So those are the three reasons I think people would give for why they make notes.

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