How to Use the New Osmosis Study Schedule Tool

Whether you’re preparing for a big exam like USMLE® Step 1 or 2, COMLEX®, NCLEX®, or PANCE®, or just want help staying on top of your coursework, the new Osmosis Study Schedule gives you the tools to take control of your time and make progress every day. 

And the great news is it’s for all Osmosis learners! Nursing, PA, Dental, and Pharmacy learners will also have access and benefit from the new, more flexible design. 

The Ultimate List of Osmosis from Elsevier Study Tips

Osmosis from Elsevier is well known for providing innovative study tips and techniques alongside best learning practices to ease your health education journey and help you prepare for the road ahead. To make it even easier to find what you need when you need it, we’ve compiled a comprehensive collection of our most popular learning tips and techniques to help you ace your classes, excel on your exams, and succeed in your clinicals and clerkships.

If you’re just starting your program or need extra guidance to stay on task, you’ll find the lists below helpful. Make sure to bookmark this post so you can reference it when you need some quick and useful advice!

The Top 10 Helpful Medical Mnemonics from Osmosis

A typical day for a first-year medical student is a whirlwind of caffeine-fueled excitement and relentless learning. After a busy morning attending lectures on anatomy and biochemistry and the afternoon in the lab dissecting specimens, you’ll often spend your evenings at late-night study sessions learning more information than sometimes feels humanly possible. Clever use of memory devices like mnemonics can help transform that flood of information into readily retrievable knowledge (especially for visual learners).

Without further adieu, here are the top ten most popular mnemonics on Osmosis to help enhance your understanding of key concepts and increase knowledge retention to prepare you for clinicals and beyond!

How to Dodge Exam Anxiety

Have you ever noticed that when those big exams loom, your brain suddenly becomes super interested in cleaning your room, reorganizing your sock drawer, or maybe even learning a new TikTok dance rather than hitting the books? Well, guess what? That urge to put off studying might be your brain’s quirky way of waving a little flag that says, “Hey, maybe there’s some exam anxiety bubbling up!”

If the idea of the exam makes your stomach do somersaults, your brain might be trying to protect you from those icky feelings by saying, “Let’s just…not think about that right now!”. The sneaky part is that putting it off can make those pre-exam jitters even worse as the test gets closer! It’s like a little anxiety-procrastination feedback loop. So, that feeling of “I’ll definitely start tomorrow” could be the first clue that you’re feeling a bit stressed about the upcoming exam. Recognizing the connection between avoidance and anxiety is like finding the first piece of the puzzle in figuring out how to tackle both procrastination and those exam nerves.

But what are the other pieces? Let’s figure it out together!