 what's up you guys it's Adana I am back with another video for you guys today's gonna be about studying my study tips or how I study for PA school I've gotten that question quite a bit lately in talking to some pre-PAs and it's something that I had a question about when I was first starting because I was like man it is so much information how am I going to retain all of this information and it was kind of a learning curve you guys like it was something I really had to get used to and I had to figure out because I was not sure how I would retain all of the information that I was expected to retain that I knew that I needed to retain because had I have not retained it that could be somebody's life further down the line you know so it was definitely like nerve-wracking and definitely like I don't know like I was I was pretty like scared on entering PA school and then studying because I knew that in undergrad I really didn't like I didn't really have to study you know there are some things that you kind of studied for but you a lot of my time was in just spent studying but pretty much every minute of my day is spent studying in PA school so that's one thing planning out my day and making sure that the time that I'm utilizing is important with respect to how I study I know some of you have seen my study with me videos where I just kind of do block studying for certain things I'm literally just kind of going over like really really big ticket buzzwords and you know some presentations and trying to make sure that I understand exactly like what goes with what why does this disease process go this way as opposed to allowing the body to do this so it's very very important to find what works for you definitely what worked for me in undergrad does not work for me now and they they've always say like PA school is like that it's that meme you know where it's like you're trying to drink through a fire hydrant I don't know if you've seen it but it's like you know somebody is sitting up there and then there's like a fire hydrant just pouring water into their mouth and that's kind of how it is with respect to the information that you're getting you're getting a lot of information it's super dense you really have to remember pretty much everything but you can pick and choose and that's that's the smart part I know that in my early on in my medical terminology class that is the class where you learn what the disease is how to treat it what the presenting symptoms are the all of those you know basic medicine stuff I did not really do that too well on my first exam I think I got like a low B or B minus and as I've told you guys before if you get below a 73 that is failing in my school and I may have gotten like an 80 or something I don't know but it was not as high as I would have expected it to be and I was like what's going on you know how am I like not doing as well like I know I studied hard for this and it's not always about studying hard it's about studying smart so after I talked around some people spoke to my upper classman mentor you know I got some tips I looked I bought pants I will show you guys that book I bought pants prep pearls which helped me out a lot just consolidating the information helping me to realize exactly what I was looking for in the vignettes and then I also like made study guides and others made study guides that I used to study for one really really cool thing about my class my cohort is that they're super helpful so we have like a class of 2019 Google Drive and we just they just put everything in there so all the study guys that they've made for themselves they put it in there and they share it with everyone so if you may do better with you know Jane's study guide then you use Jane's study guide as opposed to using Martha's you know so it's like it's really cool because you get to pick and choose it's like going shopping and figuring out what works for you and after after making study guides and looking through pants and doing that making a little stupid mnemonics it worked it helped me out so that is definitely something tried to figure it out figure out what works for you and how you will study best and don't be ashamed to like ask questions I'm like well how did you study for this I will show you guys exactly what I'm talking about with respect to my study guides and pants how pants breaks it down because it's definitely a benefit to have so if you are a pre-PA student if you have gotten into PA school and you haven't gotten pants prep pros yet go ahead and get that book because it is definitely a lifesaver in PA school with respect to pharmacology I think I did worse than I did in my medical practice class on that first test and I went to the teacher I was like I don't know what's going on like this is not me I'm not this kind of student so I don't understand why I'm not getting like these drugs and I don't understand why I can't figure out like the questions I don't know if it's just me not understanding the way that you're asking the questions or I just don't know the drugs at all but I know that I studied and he told me you know he's like I had a problem with this when I was in my doctoral program I had a lot of drugs that I needed to know and so what I did was I broke it down and I put them in bubble maps and I put in the adverse effects I said this is where these are the uses this is the mechanism of action because these are all things that you need to know because different drugs interact with each other you're never supposed to use certain drugs together you may death you you know you may cause someone's death if you do an overdose on this if there is an overdose how do you revert it back how do you counteract that so those are all things that you need to know and in my bubble that I may take like 80 slides and break it down into two bubble maps on you know on my PowerPoint because I make the maps on PowerPoint so that has worked really well for me I've done so much better in farm than I did the summer before and I only expect to do even better in medical microbiology because that's kind of what it changes to in the third semester that's when we learn about all of our what are they oh all of our antibiotics so we're gonna learn about all of our antibiotics in medical microbiology and I only expect to do better in that class so I definitely make bubble maps I draw it out I spent I may have a template already ready and then as we're going through the slides I add in the information and that works tremendously for me with respect to by anatomy class I literally just down arrow every slide it's not a lot of slides it's any of I think the max amount of slides that we've had in that class it's like 36 but it's a lot of information and so what I have to do is just down arrow down arrow down arrow continue to go back to the beginning down arrow down arrow down arrow and then I use there's a book an atlas that I use for the lab and then for the class as well to know the origin insertion the nerve innovation and the action those are all things that you need to know with respect to the muscle and in my anatomy class so definitely that book helps me out a lot it has a lot of charts that I can actually use which is beneficial when I am studying because sometimes charts work for me even though I hate Excel sometimes just seeing it in a consolidated chart works for me with respect to my anatomy class so I use that and again you know our classmates put up their study guides they put up their Excel spreadsheets we print out the different pictures and then we also have to do radiology and anatomy and that again is just more repetition looking at what it may look like knowing the the actual orientation of the different muscles and how to read the film or you know the CT scan knowing exactly what side you're on so that you're picking the right structures when you're doing the test so that's usually how I study with respect to my anatomy class and then every other class is just kind of like how you're generally studying you know just kind of going through reading the slides because everything is pretty much online although we have books everything is pretty much over the computer I'm looking at slides constantly and then I only look at paper really and truly when I print out my study guides to study for the exam but that is it I mean I spend a lot of time studying maybe four to five hours a day or a night you know after I've come home I try to be in bed by no later than 11 just because I need that time to function and so but I break up my day and I break up my study time and that's really what works for me and that's what's been working for me especially this semester because this was a difficult semester was so dense so much material I thought the summer was hard well this semester was a beast and I'm just looking forward to next semester to see how things roll with that see how I do there and prepare for clinical because I will be in clinicals in about five months so I'm really really excited about that if you guys have any other questions on studying study tips maybe even like I don't know like I really like cool colorful pens and pencils and stuff so maybe you guys have some tips for me on where I can find some really cool colorful pens that would be nice leave that in the comment section below and if you have any comments or questions on my studying that I didn't my study tips that I didn't necessarily touch on or questions that you would want answered leave that in comment section below as well if you haven't already done so go ahead and follow me on Instagram at adana the PA and I will see you guys next time bye