A Student-led Tour of Osmosis: How to Elevate Your Educational Journey

Okay, I think we'll go ahead and get started. So, good morning, afternoon, evening, everyone, wherever you are coming from, and welcome to our Osmosis Student Live webinar. I'm Caroline Lucky, your Community Manager of the Osmosis Health Leadership Initiative, and I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to share Osmosis with you today. First up is our agenda. We just have a quick welcome slide, and then we'll run through all of our sections. Today, we have an exciting lineup prepared for you featuring seven talented students from our Osmosis Health Leadership Initiative. The Osmosis Health Leadership Initiative, or OHLI for short, is a global virtual program for healthcare students who work to advance our mission of empowering clinicians and caregivers with the best learning experience possible. In this year-long program, our students develop professional skills, network with leaders around the world, host community events, participate in initial hackathons, and serve as extensions of our team. So today, we have our students who are going to help you excel in medical, nursing, or other health professional studies by showing you some of our Osmosis resources. Our speakers are Crawford and Samantha, who are going to cover videos. Then we have Desiree, who will guide us through the power of playlists. Then we'll follow up with Yasir and Parsa, who will enlighten us on the effectiveness of flashcards. Finally, we'll have Vini and Valentina who tackle Osmosis questions. Thank you to you seven students for taking the time to prepare your slides. So, Crawford, we will start with Crawford and Samantha as they take us through the immersive world of Osmosis videos. You guys ready? --- Hello everyone. My name is Crawford. I'm a fourth-year nursing and midwifery student. I will be taking you through the video section. I'm unable to join you on video today due to some logistic issues, but hopefully, you're able to hear me loud and clear. So, through the videos. What are videos? Videos are one of the best Osmosis tools. They are well summarized and they give you a lot of information?well summarized and practically some of the best information you can find out there. There are thousands of topics divided by subject: academic function, fundamental sciences, organ systems, USMLE Step One reviews, USMLE Step Two reviews, and clerkships. So, a lot of the videos that Osmosis has are readily available for every student. Every student that's a part of the platform will be able to find these videos extremely helpful, especially when you're preparing for exams. Another great thing is that all the high-yield topics you need to ask your exams are just well simplified, and you can reflect on them by having a great moment watching these videos. They are very entertaining, very fun. So, the videos are great, and I will take you through the videos and how best you can use them as you prepare for your exams. When you log on to the Osmosis website, you go straight to your dashboard, right? So, when you're on your dashboard, you should be able to see what you're seeing right now on your screen. To begin accessing the videos, you will just move over to the top left-hand side, and when you click there, that should take you to the video section. So, immediately the video section is opened up, you'll be able to see a lot of information that's really readily available for you according to whatever program you registered with Osmosis. So, like for me, in nursing and midwifery, it took me straight to the page on the Fundamentals of Nursing. As you're able to see there, all the videos are organized in wonderful playlists that make it very easy for you to access all the information that you need. As you can see, there are a ton of videos here that have been organized according to the courses that are available in the nursing profession. I'm sure you're able to see from your screen right now that the playlists go as far as also explaining to you some of the additional things that Osmosis brings to the table, like with the Year of the Zebra videos, as well as also the videos being arranged in sections. Coming down to a playlist that has been selected, as you can see on your screen that's the Interpersonal Communication Skills. You'll be able to access videos that are well divided in that category for that particular course that you need to prepare for. Also, the videos are broken down into assessments, right? So, if you are preparing for your studies and you need to carry out practical assessments, you can look at the videos and see that they're well organized according to the practical assessments that you will be carrying out. Another thing also is from your screen you can clearly see?again, I'm reiterating this point?that the videos are well organized according to their playlists. Right now, we're going to head over to the videos, and you should be able to see what you can do when you're actually watching these videos and how these videos can help you prepare again for your exams or if you just want to study or just want to go through some information and revise as much as you can. As you can see from the video section, you can automatically select videos and put them into the playlist that you naturally desire to have the videos in. Another great thing about Osmosis videos that are available to you on the website is that, other than just being able to create a playlist about videos that are available there, you can actually be able to see how much of the content you've covered, how much of the content you've seen, and how much more you need to see, how much more you want to see, as you can see on your screen right now. So, we're now going to be reviewing the video. You can select videos directly and put them onto your playlist, or you can add the videos that you want to see later on onto your playlist. As you can see from your screen right now, you have your play button, of course. When you open the videos, you can play the videos, you can pause them, you can fast forward at least 10 seconds forward or 10 seconds back if you haven't understood the information that's available to you. Another great part about our videos here at Osmosis is that they have video transcripts, right? So, if you are studying and you're preparing for your exam and let's say you are a learner that learns not just by viewing something but also by reading it, the videos have transcripts. While you're watching the video, you'll be able to see the transcript?that's the transcript at the bottom of your screen, right? Transcripts are really helpful if you are listening to a video and are able to follow word by word what's being said in the video. That helps you significantly. Another great thing is that while you are watching your videos, you can be able to see that from a video you've selected in a particular playlist?as you can see on the right-hand side of your screen right now?you should be able to see that the videos were organized in the playlist. The video that's playing right now is Core Measures in Nursing, so that's in a particular playlist. If you're watching that video and there's a comprehensive playlist that cuts everything in that course that you're going through, you'll be able to see right from your screen where you are watching the video that you've covered this much information and this many videos that are in this playlist that you can go on further to watch. Another thing you're able to do is that if you're doing something and you're busy, there's picture-in-picture mode. You're skipping through different tabs and maybe you just want to listen to the audio of the video. You can click on picture-in-picture and you should be able to listen to the video without having to actually watch it. That's another great thing you're able to do. Also, the subtitles are available. So, again, if maybe you don't want to go through the entire transcript while you're watching or listening to the video, you can be able to see through the video and the subtitles available there for you, to not just watch the video but also follow through what's being said. If you want some particular information, you can skip a couple of seconds ahead by speeding up the video speed. So, you don't want to watch the whole video, but just move a couple of seconds going forward much quicker. That should help you as you are going through a lot of the videos that Osmosis has readily available for you. So, that's all I had for you in my section of the video. --- Okay, hello everyone. My name is Samantha. I'm a medical student in Mexico City right now, and I've been an OIE for almost two years?oh, more than two years. I want to share with you a little bit?sorry, before going into the video, I just want to talk to you really quickly about some tips that we have for you on the videos. You're going to get to see that Osmosis has a lot of videos, like you just saw with Crawford, and that's a great thing. But if you're going to try and go one by one, oh my gosh, you might be in trouble. So, my tip is just create your own schedule and don't hurry into watching all the videos that you're going to have available because you're just going to get crazy. It's just going to be easier if you determine the topics that you want to study and then just look for that topic. Definitely, like I tried it once and it was just crazy. My personal reason for loving Osmosis is it?s well easy, easy, easy. I guess all of you have been studying a topic that's really hard for you. For some of you, it might be renal diseases or something like that. So, that's the fun thing about Osmosis. I mean, I've watched Osmosis videos on my bed like watching Netflix, and it just makes studying a lot easier and fun. That's definitely what's going to catch on, and I hope that's something that you'll love about the platform as well. So, now we're going to move on into a new feature that Osmosis has developed. These are the decision-making trees. If you're as visual as I am, well, setting, you're going to love this feature right now. It's really easy to find. Whenever you see a purple notification that says "NEW," that's the part where you're going to be able to find the decision-making trees. So, you're going to go into any of those videos, like we saw with Crawford, and just make sure it's one of the specialties that has this function available. You're going to scroll down from the video, and what you're going to see is these amazing decision trees. You're going to be able to download this, print it, or just have it on your phone. This is what's really going to help you on your shelf exams because most of the questions, like on Step One, are based on "what are you going to do next?" or "what's the diagnosis for this patient?" So, this is a super cool new feature that's helpful for both your exams or like your rotations, whenever you're rotating and your doctor is like, "Well, do you know what we're going to do with this patient?" and you're all confused. This feature is definitely something that you're going to want to have in mind when you're studying and doing your clinical rotations. As you can see, all the videos from those subjects that we have available right now are going to have a decision-making tree just below the feature. How you access this: it's just like on your main page, like you're seeing right now. You're going to go to all your topics, and then you're going to see a big purple notification that says "NEW" on the subjects that we have the decision-making tree available for. Right now, we only have internal medicine, surgery, and OBGYN. But you'll be happy to hear that psychiatry, neurology, and family medicine are also coming in Fall 2024. So, soon, we're going to have these decision-making trees for other subjects as well. And that's it for us. I hope you enjoyed it, and we'll pass it to the next section. --- That was amazing. Wonderful insight on our videos. Now let's shift our focus to playlists with Desiree. --- Yes, hi everyone. My name is Desiree. I'm from Mexico City also. I'm still doing my master's right now in Health Management. I have been in OIE for four years now, and I'm going to talk about playlists. Okay, what's a playlist? You may know the term because of Spotify and all those things. Yes, this is similar. As you saw in the video section, we have a lot of videos, but you won't be able to watch them all, as Samantha said. So, we have this option to use your playlist that you're going to create, just like you create your Spotify playlist and so on. So, this is a list of videos that you can organize and have them ready to be watched when needed or when you want to study. Also, the advantage of them is that you can create your own set, your own status with your names. You can be creative. You can save all the videos that you want, but be realistic. You won't be saving hundreds of videos that you won't be able to watch. You will have everything organized and divided into topics or exams you are studying for your boards, and well, Osmosis has your back and it's really easy to use. Where can you find the playlist? You can also be adding the videos into your playlist during the video. While you're watching your video, you have the option for the playlist, or you can also have it here. This is your playlist bar. You can find this on your Osmosis page, and on the left, you can find a playlist bar there. Then you click on that, and then you will have all your playlists. This is the one that I have. It is the Step One and Step Two playlists. These are all my playlists, but you can have whatever playlist you want. You can rename it, edit them, erase them, or change them if you want. Okay, this is my little video. An advantage that we have also in Osmosis is that we can choose either Spanish or English. That's a good option also for Spanish speakers. So, I'm going to use the Spanish section. Here you can have the playlists; you click on that, and then you have this. This is my watch-later playlist. I added some videos that I want to watch later. This is all skin-related. This is my skin playlist, and I have everything about skin. It's not just skin clinical. I can add also about clinical sciences, anatomy videos, pathology reviews, and everything. All this is skin-related for me. I can edit my list, erase the videos, quiz them all, or add a new playlist. I can add a title; I will just name it Step Two, but you can be creative. I'm going to add some videos related to Step Two here. You have the "Add Videos" option, and you can just look into the topic that you're looking for, and there we have everything about Step Two, as you can see. Now we have everything Step Two related. We can also have how-to-study tips, clinical reviews, Step Two questions. Everything about this exam you can be adding. Maybe it's interesting for you, you can add them to the list, or maybe while watching the video you're like, "Okay, this is important for my exam, I can add it there." Now, okay, I'm just adding some options here. Then you can quiz them all. At the top, you can find "Play All the Videos" and "Quiz Them All." It's really important to quiz while you are studying. Here are just questions about the Step Two exam, and all of them are related to the videos you are adding to your playlist. That's a good option too. Here you can go back to your playlist and loading. You can add as many playlists as you want, but as I said before, we don't recommend you add a lot of playlists that you won't be able to watch. Yes. My personal pro tip for the playlist is to personalize it as you want. Just name it, be creative, and be realistic, as you are adding videos. You will be like, "Yes, I like this video. I like this video," like your playlist on Spotify. But if you want to be able to watch them, really watch them and study and quiz them all at the end, be careful on that. My personal reason for loving Osmosis is like the images are so friendly, and you can be studying and learning in a very simple way. Thank you so much, and let's go to the next section. --- Thanks, Desiree. So, from the first three people, we've heard that Osmosis is just fun and easy. How awesome is that? Thanks, everyone. Now we'll move on to Yasir and Parsa, who are going to cover flashcards. --- Hello everyone. My name is Yasir Taki. I'm a medical student from St. George University in Grenada. I'm currently in New York doing my master's. I've been part of the OHLI program for about three years now. With me is Parsa. --- Hello everyone. My name is Parsa Mohri. I'm a medical student currently in my fifth year at Aadam University based in Istanbul, Turkey. I've had the pleasure of being in the OIE community for around three years as well. Today, I'm going to talk about the concept and philosophy of flashcards?the one study method that has saved me throughout my medical school, and I hope it does for you as well. Just to give a bit of an introduction to what flashcards are: as it says there, they are very short and sweet, target-specific pieces of content or vocabulary. They're very effective if you're consistent with your flashcards and if you keep repeating them on a daily basis?that's kind of what's expected to do. In this case, you're testing yourself. How do they compare to doing questions that Desiree showed earlier? Questions test your understanding of the topic, but flashcards are more of testing your ability to recall specific minute details of the content. As we proceed to the next slide: if you're human, you've most likely experienced the phenomenon of the forgetting curve. That's basically, as you can see on the graph, Day Zero, let's say you learn the Krebs cycle, the fun little enzyme names that you probably have to remember for your board exam. The next day, you watch the video, the next day you forgot the enzyme names. That's basically a demonstration of the forgetting curve: you learn something and over time you start to forget it unless you actively retrieve it back into your memory or actively recall or test yourself. Flashcards work by repeating the content, testing yourself, being able to recall the enzyme names or whatever it may be?muscle names or bone anatomy?and it'll help you have better long-term retention of this content. As you can see, the curve starts to flatten out. It would be interesting to let you know that there's been a study that showed medical students, after one year of their studies, they forgot up to 33% of their basic science knowledge and 50% after two years. So, it's kind of important to keep this content in our memory and be able to actively recall them. As we proceed to the next slide: this is where Osmosis comes in. You're probably asking yourself, "You want me to create questions and answers like flashcards? It's going to take quite a while for me to get those done, and how do I know if I have to repeat these every day?" Not necessarily. If you're using Osmosis, which definitely does have the flashcard tool, Osmosis has the algorithm embedded into its flashcard tools, which is able to determine where you're struggling in the specific content. It will make those flashcards show up in your practice sessions more frequently. You're able to eventually master whatever you are struggling in. Osmosis also has pre-made flashcards, which is pretty good news because you don't need to be making any flashcards though you can if you want to. There are a lot of pre-made flashcards available by Osmosis. As you can see on this graph, it helps you review when it knows you're about to forget it, and you become more familiar with the content. Now, I'm going to give the stage to Yasir, and he will be talking about using flashcards in Osmosis. --- Thank you, Parsa. There's a lot about flashcards, but how do you get to these flashcards? There are pre-made flashcards on the Osmosis website, like Parsa was mentioning. There are actually about 15,000 of them?that's a lot. If that's not enough, you can also create your own. The way to access flashcards is through the videos, the sidebar, and you can create your own. If we move on to the next slide, I have a video that can help demonstrate the flashcards. I'll show you how to access the flashcards. First, I'll go through videos and access the demo playlist that I created. Let's say I wanted to learn a topic about acidosis and alkalosis. At the end of the video, a pop-up will come up with a lending symbol that shows the flashcards. You can also access the flashcards in the sidebar where it says "Assessments," and you can preview the flashcards rather than adding them to your queue right away. When you do this, you can see what flashcards are included, associated with the video that you just watched, and you can decide whether to keep these flashcards. Maybe some of them you don't want to have in your flashcard deck, and maybe you can see some things that you want to add as a flashcard later on. Let's say I want to review my acidosis and alkalosis. Within these three videos of acidosis and alkalosis, I can go in and add all those flashcards. Once I've added the flashcards into my queue, I can head up there and review them by accessing my queue. When you open this, you'll see three buttons beneath the flashcard: low, medium, high?based on how confident you are in answering this question. For example, for this first one, I'm going to say I didn't really know the answer. I kind of just guessed it, so I'm going to say I missed it. I wasn't really sure. That will trigger the algorithm to help decide when I should see that flashcard next. Later on, when I go to the next card, I'll say for this one I have pretty confident; I know what it's talking about, and I got it. For the rest of the flashcards here, I'm just going to say I got one. At the end, you'll get a summary of the flashcards?how much you got correct, how much you got wrong. Afterwards, they will go into your daily repetition quiz, where Osmosis will assign you cards based on that day, based on when you should review it using the forgetting curve. For example, here I'm getting questions about anti-H1 receptor agonist/antagonist because I reviewed this topic a while back, and now I'm reviewing this topic. A lovely feature with the flashcards is the explanations that appear next to some of them, where they also have extra tidbits of information. Another thing you can do to your flashcards is adjust it to your liking. For example, you can reverse the order, turn on dark mode, and use extra features such as a flag or "do not repeat." The flagging feature allows you to mark it as a priority. Maybe you have an exam coming up about this topic, and you really want to review extra in-depth and see it more often. "Do not repeat" is something that you really have mastered at this time and you don't want to see it ever again. You can also adjust the spaced repetition settings; however, I recommend leaving it on auto to let the algorithm decide when to show it and to become a big pro at flashcards. There are hotkeys on your keyboard that you can press to go through those flashcards more quickly. Another place you can see flashcards is if you go back onto the main page landing; you can access the flashcards on the sidebar and go to specific topics rather than going through the videos. For example, if I want to again go to acidosis and alkalosis, I can just highlight the questions from there, add them to my queue. You can always create your own flashcards. For example, if I want to go over a mnemonic for high anion gap metabolic acidosis, I can write that in, and then in the curve brackets put in what the blank would be. On the backside of the note, I can write in the extra information that will pop up on the side when I flip over the flashcard and see it. You can also add tags to help you search through your flashcard deck easily. Then I just save these cards to my queue, and they'll be added and go into my spaced repetition quiz. You can see here that the backside of the card has all the information. That's it for flashcards for me. We can pass it on to the next presenters. --- Actually, yeah, we do have a question in the chat: "Are you answering the flashcards by selecting low, medium, and high? Can you explain the low, medium, and high of the flashcards?" The flashcard, when it is presented to you, is most of the time a statement. When that statement is like a blank that you have to fill in, based on how confident you are in answering that statement, for example: The card says "The common causes of..." I just created this flashcard, "metabolic acidosis." If I had no idea what this flashcard was referring to, I would say I'm not very confident answering this, so I would say "low." I'm not very confident in answering this. Whereas if I say I am highly confident in my answer, I would say "high." Then it will flip the card, and I will see if I got it right or wrong. How I use these buttons and interact with them helps the algorithm decide when you'll see the card next. I hope that answers your question. --- Yes, that's awesome. Thank you so much. Next slide. That's it about the flashcards. I do recommend using them. There's a lot to remember in the healthcare field, so this is one way to definitely stay on top of your knowledge. I recommend going into settings, adjusting it to your liking, and of course having fun with Osmosis. I really enjoy using Osmosis. It is a lot of fun to use; it doesn't feel like a dreaded study time when I go through it all. That's it for us. We'll move on to the questions. --- Yes, keep adding your questions to the chat. We'll get to them when we can. For now, since I think we were caught up on questions, we will move to Vini and Valentina, who are going to cover questions. --- Hello everyone. Thank you for being here. My name is Valentina. I am a medical student from Colombia, and I have been an OIE for almost a year now. With me is Vinicius Pera. --- Hey everyone. I'm Vini, a final-year medical student here in Argentina at the University of ?name not specified?, and I have been an OIE for almost a year now, just as Valentina. So, we will present the questions. What are the questions? The questions are a powerful tool for testing your knowledge and reinforcing what you've already learned. These questions are based on clinical cases, and they are not focused on assessing you on isolated facts or random pieces of information. They focus on the application of that knowledge, of that important information, for you to make decisions related to patient care. So, these questions require you to solve clinical problems that you can apply that knowledge to clinical-based settings so that you can make really good practice. They will most likely test you on important information, high-yield content, because this is stuff that you really must know for your exams and for your practice. Right now, we have around 2,600 Step One questions in the Step One Qbank and 2,100 questions for the Step Two Qbank. The USMLE Step One Qbank will test you more on basic science, and the Step Two will test you more on clinical science. Even if you're not studying for these exams, these questions are really good to review content and test yourself on what you're learning already in medical school. --- Alrighty, so where can we find this resource? If any of you viewers have realized, as soon as you open up the dashboard, in this case, we have right in front, this was a new edition I think last year. The questions will directly pop up once you get into the platform. You just log in, you'll see the welcome back screen, and then in your daily practice, you get five questions randomly from the videos that you have been watching. But if you see on your left-hand side, you have as well the little tab for the questions. Next slide, please. When you're watching a particular video, as we'll see later on, you can also check if they have a USMLE Step One question bank or a USMLE Step Two question bank. In this case, as we are assessing congestive heart failure on your right-hand side, just below the playlist, you have the Step One questions where you can go ahead and do them later on, as we will see. --- Alright, so now to access the questions. First of all, we're here on the homepage, and we can access the questions in the left sidebar or in the menu icon. You can also see the questions option there, or you can do the daily practice, whatever you want to do. Then this page comes up where you choose?you have to choose?US Step One Qbank or US Step Two Qbank. As I said, Step One focuses more on basic science, and Step Two focuses more on clinical science questions. You select either one that you want to review, and when you are in one Qbank, you can always go back and choose the other Qbank. This is how the question bank looks like, the configuration of it. It will show you foundational science subjects and organ systems. There are options for you to do: you can test yourself on all questions, or only on unused questions (questions that you haven't looked at), or only the incorrect questions that you previously got wrong. We're going to go with all questions in this example. If you select absolutely everything?all the foundational subjects and all the organ systems?you'll see all the available questions, which are more than 2,600 questions. But what if you don't want to review absolutely everything? You only want to target specific topics. For example, you want to review genetics, biochemistry, and maybe molecular biology. But then what if you don't want to review all genetics? Maybe you've already covered population genetics and don't think you need to review it right now. You can not choose that topic. You can choose specific topics that you want to review. You can also choose the subjects, for example, embryology and microbiology. Here I show you the questions available. At the bottom of the slide, there are 383 questions. If you select an organ system, for example, here we've selected the immune system and the nervous system. If we select some systems, the available questions will be lower because there will only be questions related to those specific systems. I will explain this better as we get along with the presentation. Right now, we're going to select an organ system as an example. Then we select the quiz size. We want to test ourselves maybe for 10 questions, 40 questions?the regular example of a block of questions?and get the estimated time that we are going to take reviewing those questions. Then, we can save to the queue to do these questions later, or we can just begin the quiz right now. After you select the topics and quiz size, you start. First, you'll see the structure of your test right here. It will show a pie graph. It'll show how many questions are new, how many you have done previously, the level of confidence you did them, and how many questions you got wrong. You can also change?for example, I only want to do new questions this time. In the blue side of the graphic, it will show you how much time has passed since you answered the previously answered questions. It will show you questions that you did yesterday, maybe a month ago, two months ago. So, you can see the particular structure of this test. You can change it also before starting the test. --- Below you'll see the questions available. You can either save to the queue or start the quiz. This is how you do a block of questions. Remember, you can choose the different size of this test. On the left side, you can see again the structure, and you can also see the lab values that you might need to answer the question. In this table, we show you, for example, blood levels, sweat, urine, CSF?everything that you might need to answer the question. We also have a highlighting tool for you to highlight the most important things that you need to solve this case. We can also put this like in a higher view on the page. We also have an elimination tool for you to rule out the options that are not the right answer. It will help you choose the correct answer more easily. After you read the question, it is always recommended to first read the question so you know what to look for. You know what might be important for you to look for in the clinical case. After reading all the options, you can select what explains everything that the patient has. Remember, you have to choose the best answer for this. It explains everything that this patient has or everything that has to be correct. When you select a question and it's wrong, it'll highlight the option in red and highlight the correct answer in green. Below every single option, you'll get the explanation of why that option was incorrect. You have to click on it. On the right side, you'll see the main explanation of why that option was correct. You may be shown some graph or some drawing or illustration so that you can remember better why that question was correct. --- Here is another question. After you read it, you just select the correct answer. You can also select the level of confidence, same as flashcards. You put low confidence if you don't know if this is correct, or if you definitely know that this option is correct, you choose the high level of confidence. We also have some settings at the top to put it in dark mode or night mode. You can also do that. You can also use some key shortcuts. You can change the level of confidence. It will always show you the low confidence first, but if you switch it, it'll show you the high confidence first. Thank you. --- Next slide. After you complete your block of questions, this page will show up. It will show you how many questions you got correct, how many you got incorrect. You can repeat the ones you missed or just go ahead and do a new quiz. Next slide. --- I was going to explain what SA to key means. For example, you want to review the immune system in the organ systems, and you select a quiz size of 25 questions. You'll see on the left that the available questions we have right now are 98 questions of the immune system. Your test size is 25. When you hit "Save to Q" to do this test later, it won't save you the 25 questions that you will do, but it will save you all the 98 questions that are available. When you hit the stopwatch icon at the top right, it'll show you the questions that you saved. There is a button that says "By Time" or "By Item." If it's by time, you can just start the quiz whenever you want. If it's by item, you can view every singular question that you just saved. You can delete the ones you don't want to do right now. Then you go back and start the quiz later. Next slide. --- Alrighty. Val just beautifully explained a lot of features that we have. Say we are actually using Osmosis to study for our university subjects while also studying for the classes, not so much focusing on Step One. We can just go ahead and type "heart failure." If you just came out of internal medicine and had a class on heart failure and want to have a little read on it, you can definitely watch the video. Something I want to talk about is that Osmosis has some beautiful and useful information more than these videos. As we have been talking, you have the flashcards, you have the questions, and we'll see more right now. If you go a little bit down, as we will see, we have all of the high-yield notes, which are some under a quick review of everything that you have in the video. You also have the option to look at the first references. We've been talking a lot about the USMLE, as you might have noticed, and you also have the option to go and see Medscape, for example. Let's say we are focusing on heart failure because we just got out of internal medicine. You want to read up on heart failure and its topics. You can watch the video and go straight ahead and do questions related to it. You go to USMLE Step One questions and just do those pertinent to the video that you're watching right now. As you can see, we're just going straight ahead to it. As Vini already went through all the topics and features that we have, this is just me answering those questions. What's fun, just as Samantha said before, is that you can pick and choose which videos you want to watch on Osmosis based on your school curriculum. I just saw in the chat that we had a question talking about the UK and how it differs from the US. What I would recommend is what I've done all my life using Osmosis?it's been four years now since I started it?that you pick and choose just like Netflix whatever movie it is that you want to see that particular night. You go ahead and choose. You can choose whatever particular topic you want to study at the moment because maybe your curriculums are different. In my case, whenever I'm doing fourth-year internal medicine, I won't be going through electrocardiograms because ECG is something that you see way down the line in my school. So I just go ahead, take heart failure without going through all the playlists, just go to heart failure and do those questions that are pertinent to it. As you guys can see, these questions really focus on basic science. Even though they present a lot of patient information, you can see symptoms, the signs and symptoms that a patient comes in with, even have a chest X-ray, and so on. As Val said, Step One really is about the basic knowledge, the foundational sciences that you need to cover. I think we are a little bit short on time, so we can just go right to the questions. --- Okay, I know we're good on time because really the questions are just going through them again. Sure, oh, guys finish up with your pro tips, and then yeah, once they're done with this slide, we're going to head into questions, which you do need to drop in the chat. So if you guys have any questions, start dropping them in the chat now while Vini wraps up. --- Alright, so my personal pro tip for using Osmosis question banks is to keep in mind that the subject subsection in the organ system division rules over the organ system subsection. What does this mean? If you see the image that we have here, we see subjects with a little crown, and in the lower part, you see organ systems. If you want to review physiology and pathology, if you select this on subjects and then maybe you want to do organ systems, you want to review the cardiovascular system or the nervous system, you?ll only be tested on physiology and pathology of those systems you select. If your goal is to get tested on all microbiology, for example, all microbiology related to the nervous system, cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal system, you do not select any organ system because you want to get tested on all microbiology. If your goal is to get tested on all the cardiovascular system, for example, if you want to review embryology, anatomy, physiology of the cardiovascular system, everything about it, you would not select any subjects because you'll only see that subject related to that system. I hope this is clear. You can also tell us the questions you have. For you to keep this in mind. My pro tip, as I was talking about, is to use the material that you have available in Osmosis?the thousands and thousands of videos. You can cherry-pick literally from what you are seeing at your school curriculum with what we have in the library. This is really valuable. I know we've talked a lot about the USMLE Step One and Step Two, but it really helps you a lot with your university exams. Say you're studying physiology; go ahead, pick and choose whatever physiology topics you need to reinforce or understand because it is hard. You don't need to watch the whole playlist. Keep it up using your school curriculum with the thousands of videos we have, and I assure you that you will retain and learn so much better that way. --- Alright, so this is why I love Osmosis and personally use it nearly daily. It teaches you the difficult topics in the most simple and fun way. I think I am a visual learner, so I love visual learning illustrations. If you love medical animation, this platform is for you. It helps understand everything in such a simple way. It prioritizes the best learning techniques based in science, like spaced repetition and active recall. It not only has resources for you to study but for you to prepare for your exams and other information that you might find really useful, not related to content but for you to be a good student and a good professional in the future. Even though it can seem a little bit overwhelming that you guys have so many videos, the beauty of Osmosis is that it really boils down a ton of information into simple and effective learning tools. It is multifaceted at that because you have the great videos, awesome quizzes, questions, high-yield notes, and so much more. Just like I showed you guys, you have links and escape links and everything to ensure that you are having the best learning experience and that you will become the best clinicians and nurses possible. --- Amazing. Thank you to all of our students for preparing your slides and for speaking. We did have one question higher up in the chat that you see I did respond to, but I wanted to see if any of our other panelists here have an answer. They asked about recommendations on how to study anatomy most effectively using Osmosis resources. If anyone wants to chime in, feel free to let them know how you study anatomy most effectively in Osmosis. --- I think I can give a bit of insight on what helped me because anatomy is one of my biggest nightmares. It feels like a lot of memorization of muscle names, ligaments, tendons. What really helped me from the Osmosis videos, besides the anatomy videos, was especially the clinical correlates anatomy videos. Because I feel like over there, it tells a story behind why these tendons or ligaments not just should be remembered, but there's a story behind them. For example, if you get trauma to your leg, it starts talking about the ligaments that got affected. You start to connect it more with the clinical part. I think that's what really helped me, especially if you're interested in the clinical aspect of medicine. The clinical correlates would be of your help. As you probably guessed, I would be saying flashcards. I definitely agree with Parsa there. One thing that helped me a lot, I am currently prepping for Step One. I'm from Argentina; I study in English. The way that American folks use anatomy is in Latin. I was really weirded out once I checked that anatomy was completely different. What I did was use Osmosis as a primer. Firstly, I just sat down, watched the videos, and got myself familiar with this material. Then, flashcard repetition is key for anatomy. Sadly, that's just the way life is. I think that's the best way to get through it. --- Yes, I will also add for anatomy because I also struggle with it. First of all, I have to thank some really good teachers who taught me anatomy because without them I would be more lost. What each anatomy teacher emphasized to me was: do not focus more on where this muscle is located or where the artery is located or the vein or any anatomy feature you're studying. Focus more on what the function is. What is this particular muscle doing? What is this bone doing? If you think about the function?why it is really there, what it really does, and why is it important?you will be more connected to the concept that you're studying. Everything will make sense if you make sense of what this anatomical correlate is. Also, clinical correlates help, and really knowing the function and why this is important. Just a quick note: Osmosis also has another group called Complete Anatomy that offers illustrations of anatomy and is highly useful. I believe some folks on this panel have had access to that. If you want to speak to whether Complete Anatomy helped you as well, that would be great. --- Valentina, did you have access to that, or Vini? Either one? --- I honestly wish I had access before. I will definitely be using it again as a rep. If you guys are visual learners, it is fantastic. The way that you can actually go ahead inside the body and get a sense of the 3D and the spatial relationships within the organs?I think that's just fantastic. The way you can dissect it by planes, for example, when you're studying the flexor of the forearms?you can go plane by plane, step by step. It helps a lot. Honestly, it's a great resource. I wish I had it sooner. --- Yeah, so I would say Complete Anatomy is something you want to add to your studying method for anatomy. I mentioned one of my favorite parts about Osmosis videos and tools is that everything is simplified. Anatomy is one of the things you don't want to simplify, especially when you're trying to visualize it. At least for me, Complete Anatomy was really helpful in that way because you're not just watching the drawing or illustration; you're able to be inside the actual structures. You can see the pathway for vascular anatomy and things like that. That's definitely super helpful. --- Fantastic. Thank you so much. Does anybody have any other questions? --- Looks like no more questions. You can always reach out to us with questions. You can join our OIE student program. We're actually about to start recruiting in May for the following semester. If you're not part of our program, you can go to osmosis.org/community and find out more about us and come join us. Thank you again to our speakers today for preparing your slides and speaking. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope you all have a good rest of your day. Helping current and future clinicians focus, learn, retain, and thrive. Learn more.