Category: Study Tips & Techniques
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The Ultimate List of Osmosis from Elsevier Study Tips
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Discover curated study tips and proven learning techniques designed to boost success for medical, nursing, and healthcare students throughout their academic and clinical journeys.
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A Quick Reference Guide to Common Conditions Related to Sexual Health, Part 2: Viruses
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Understand the importance of sexual health with our quick reference guide to common viral infections. This article covers critical conditions such as HIV, Hepatitis B, and Herpes Simplex Virus, detailing their symptoms, diagnostic approaches, and management strategies. Equip yourself with knowledge to promote better health outcomes and foster open conversations…
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What Makes a Great Educator? Some Frontline Medical Education Insights
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About a decade ago, I took a leap of faith by leaving Johns Hopkins Medical School to start Osmosis, a platform aimed at transforming medical education. Fast forward to today, I find myself back at Hopkins, not only as a student but as someone who has seen firsthand the impact…
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Time Management 101: How to get (and stay) organized while you’re in school
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Overwhelmed by the pace of healthcare training? Discover time management tools like the Eisenhower matrix and active learning to boost focus, reduce stress, and improve retention.
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How to Build Study Habits That Last
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In today’s Osmosis by Elsevier blog, we’re sharing strategies for academic success, how to determine your learning style, and offering hands-on, helpful tips on improving your study habits. We’ve all been there. You do an all-nighter to cram in every possible bit of information, but despite your best efforts, your…
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How Will AI Tools Like ChatGPT Change Healthcare?
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become more reality than fiction in recent months, with big implications for the future of medicine and health care. Osmosis Medical Education Fellows (OMEF) Sameer Ahmed Mughal and Andres Acevedo-Melo consider how AI and ChatGPT can be used to help physicians diagnose tough cases, track everyday patient…
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Cognitive Load: What is it and why does it matter in healthcare education?
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Explore how cognitive load affects learning in healthcare education and learn strategies to reduce overload for improved student retention and understanding.
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What Is a Spiral Curriculum and How Does It Help Healthcare Students Learn?
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Discover the spiral curriculum learning approach, its benefits for healthcare students, and strategies for effective implementation in medical, nursing, and health professional programs.
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How to Navigate Group Projects in Medical School Like a Pro
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How do you feel about being assigned to a group project? Osmosis Medical Education Fellow, Joy Mueni Muli, offers some helpful tips to make your next group project experience more enjoyable, collaborative, and productive on our latest blog. What goes through your mind when an instructor tells you that you’ll…
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Strategies to Help Students Stay on Track During Winter Break
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There’s no doubt that time away from school is a welcome change during winter break, but it can also hamper a student’s progress once they return to their coursework. Here are five tips for educators to keep students engaged during the winter break. Winter break is an exciting time for…
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Setting Yourself Up for Success: Study Strategies, Healthy Habits, and Meeting Mentors
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Explore key strategies for medical students to enhance learning, maintain wellness, and leverage mentorship for academic and professional success from SDN’s Laura Turner.
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How to Learn and Thrive with Osmosis
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Learning is a word that is often used in routine discussions in a teaching environment. But learning comes with many definitions. As Osmosis comes with a mission to empower the world’s clinicians and caregivers with the best learning experience possible, we define learning as the knowledge that will transform you…
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Active Recall: The Most Effective High-Yield Learning Technique
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Are you maximizing your study effectiveness? Many healthcare and medical students rely on familiar methods like rereading text or flashcards without realizing it’s less effective. Discover science-backed study techniques that can improve learning, boost your exam performance, and transform your study habits.
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How to Be a Better Medical Student
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Are you looking for ways to be a better medical student and tackle the new semester full steam ahead? Here are some tips that I’ve found very useful! I remember how challenging my first year of medical school was, and how much I wished I had someone to offer tips…
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Concept Thinking in Nursing School
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Are you tired of all those all-nighters trying to cram for the big test in the morning just to come up short of your goals again and again? Well, as Trey Parker discusses in this article, there’s a way to avoid those sleepless nights while actually improving your understanding of…
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The Osmosis Ultimate Guide to Studying Styles
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Osmosis helps those who are studying medicine to learn in the most productive way possible. We’ve discussed learning styles before, but Studying Styles can transform the way you work with material and prepare for exams. Read on for the definitive guide to identifying your Studying Style and putting it to work…
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Tips for Transitioning to Third Year
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Clinic years of medical school are vastly different than the preclinical years and require new study habits, work styles, and a lot more people skills. This blog post will acknowledge the big shock that is third year, identify some tips and tricks, and remind students that they are not alone…
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How to Study in Nursing School: 8 Tips from an Expert Nurse Educator
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Prepare for academic success with these eight essential study habits every nursing student should adopt! From understanding the basics to practicing NCLEX®-style questions, this guide offers practical strategies to enhance your learning experience and ensure you thrive in nursing school.
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How to Take Notes Faster in Medical School
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Taking notes in medical school can be messy and time-consuming. With so much material to write down and memorize, having a strategy for effective note-taking can make a difference in your performance in medical school.
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Useful Life Hacks for Medical Students
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Life in medical school is not always easy to tackle. In today’s Osmosis blog, medical student and Osmosis Medical Education Fellow, Javed Iqbal, shares his experiences and life hacks he thinks every student needs to know. Study hacks & memory techniques Medicine has always been among most respected professions. But…
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Overcoming Testing Anxiety Part 2: Test Day
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This blog is based out of a two part webinar hosted by Dr. Marina Horiates, Content Manager for Test Questions at Osmosis, called Overcoming testing anxiety. Today we will be giving you the major takeaways from part two—test day tips and tricks. It’s test day! You have done all the…
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Overcoming Testing Anxiety: Part 1
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Testing anxiety…. Just the thought of it gives you stomach butterflies, right? As healthcare professional students, the weight of these exams are heavy: but overcoming test anxiety is possible. At Osmosis, we want to give you the tools to balance that boulder so you don’t bear the whole pressure: learning…
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Tools for Productivity in Medical School and Beyond
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Medical school is daunting, and life has a way of not making it easier with never-ending distractions -Social media, events, friends, and family. In today’s blog, Osmosis Medical Education Fellow Abe Baker shares all the digital tools that he uses to ensure he is productive and efficient during the day…
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Med School Life Hacks: Master Your Pharm Exams With a Memory Palace!
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Struggling to memorize long drug names? Learn how the Memory Palace method uses visual and sensory associations to make pharmacology easier to remember.
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Learn Histology with Videos on Osmosis
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Improve your understanding of histology with the Osmosis Histology video series! This comprehensive collection of videos offers clear explanations and engaging visuals to help medical, nursing, and healthcare students learn the essential histological features of various organ systems. Dive into the fascinating world of histology today!
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What is elaborative rehearsal? An Osmosis Guide
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Learn how elaborative rehearsal helps transfer info from short-term to long-term memory by connecting new ideas with what you already know.
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Getting Started in Medical School (And How to Make It Easier on Yourself)
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Transitioning into medical school is often very stressful for new students. In this blog, Bardia Adibmoradi shares his tips for making a smooth transition. When I started medical school, I was faced with a fast-paced flood of new information that I didn’t know how to navigate, and was intimidated by…
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Key Resources to Study the Renal System
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Struggling with nephrology? Learn a stepwise approach to mastering the renal system: big picture overview, anatomy, embryology, histology, physiology, pathology, and practice questions.
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Prepare for Med School With These Best Learning Strategies (and Avoid Falling Off the Cliff)
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If you’re about to enter medical school, you should be prepared to completely change your study style to accommodate for the firehose of information that’s coming your way. Today on the Osmosis blog, we’re sharing an updated version of study tips from Dr. Alexander Roseman, who shares some of the…
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8 Science-Backed Learning Strategies Osmosis Uses to Help You Study Smarter
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At Osmosis, it’s our mission to empower the world’s clinicians and caregivers with the best learning experience possible. We’ve worked hard to ensure that as learning methods evolve, so does the Osmosis platform. Here’s a brief exploration of the learning science methods on Osmosis that help you study smarter. Learning…