 And that, I feel like that was like the most effective of all of this whole study process. What's up you guys, it's Lidonna. Welcome back to my channel. So you guys, I've been wanting to make this video for you all for quite some time now, but I just bit the bullet and I mean this is what works for me. Hopefully it can translate to working for you as well. But this is how I effectively study for PA school and that's what this video is gonna be about. You can always come back and re-watch this video if you, if you'd like. And to do that, you can also subscribe to my channel right now and hit that notification button so you know exactly when I'm going to actually be putting a video up. With this video, I'm gonna give you just kind of like a start to finish of how I study for pretty much all of my classes in PA school. The backbone or the foundation of my study tips are pretty much the same for each class. There may be a little thing here or there that I switch up with respect to like anatomy and pathophysiology and pharmacology. Things where I am more diagram prone or I want to see a more visual aspect of what I'm dealing with. But for the most part, actually making my study guides and studying throughout the week is the same. So that is what I'm gonna give you the foundation of that. When I go on some, I'm at practice class and we're seeing the material for the first time. We're gonna have a PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is made available to us either the day before or the day of the particular class. But once that PowerPoint is made available to us, we pull it up, we're in class and we'll go through the PowerPoint. And so now to go through the PowerPoint, we're going through it with the teacher. So my professor is telling us different information and in that information, the PowerPoint is up on the screen as well. So I always take notes. I take my notes by hand because I just think it's more important for you to actually like write stuff down. It helps it stick better for me. But also with respect to note taking, when you're typing your notes out, it's easier to just kind of write things verbatim. But when you're writing it out by hand, you have to really pick and choose what is important. And you can kind of like dwindle down on some of that information as well and hone into exactly what is important and what you're going to take from the information that your teacher is giving you. When we're going through the PowerPoints, I am writing all of this information down by hand. Now I'm not writing every single thing that's listed on the PowerPoint. Our professors do a really good job to either bold or italicize or underline or highlight different things that are important that you need as a takeaway from this particular subject matter. So I make sure that I write that information down. But also if there's something that my professor is stressing in their audio, like their their actual like speech that they're telling us, then I will write that information down as well. We'll go through that throughout the whole class. And I'll take notes, I'll write all that down. And then from those handwritten notes, I go home and I make my study guide. So when I'm going through and making my study guide, I go through the PowerPoint again. And I also listen to the audio version because they make a video. And you have access to the video of all the lectures. So you can always go back and listen and watch the lecture. So I do that as well. So that I'm able to now again, after I've taken a step back, I've gotten more information from other classes, I can come back and rewrite everything that I've done, but in a study guide form. So when I make my study guide again, I'm going through the PowerPoints and the actual audio and the video that was already recorded. I'm looking for anything that I may have missed when I was writing. And I will add that into my actual study guide. So when I'm making my study guide, I do the exact same thing where I write the subject matter that I'm talking about. And then I like to have little vignette. So I like to pretend and see like, oh, this is a patient coming in with XYZ symptoms. And what is it? Just to kind of help me think through the process of this is what I might see in the actual emergency department or in OB or in cardiology, if that is the section that I'm in. Once I write my vignette, I will write down the symptoms. I'll write down the diagnosis. I'll talk about the treatment. For some diseases, I talk about like prevalence. Those are things that are just added information that I want for myself, but that's not necessarily something that I'm going to be tested on. Once I make my study guide, then I use that study guide at home, like throughout the rest of the week to actually study. I don't like no longer do I really look at the PowerPoint or listen to and look at the video recording that was made. I use my study guide for all of my studying along with my handy dandy book, Pants Prep Pearls. You guys have seen me talk about this book many times, but it's the same thing with pants. It also does like bold, italicized, underlined, starred, asterisk, however you want to call it. It puts all that information in there so that you are able to see exactly what is important, what are the pearls that you want to take away from this, and anything that you may have missed from your teachers or your professor's lecture. You can also pick that up in pants. I always make sure though that whatever my professor is teaching me, that's what I am like actually really taking home because sometimes pants is more clinical. That's what you're going to see and how you're going to treat in the clinical world, but it doesn't always translate with academics. It's important to understand how you can find that dynamic and pick out that information if that is something that is also done at your school. After I make my study guide and I use my study guide to study throughout the week, my classes in didactic year usually ended at 4.30 or 5 o'clock. I would have maybe about 4-5 hours, sometimes 6 hours to study depending on the time that I'm spending with my family and my kids and what I'm doing from trying to go out somewhere and actually have a break from PA school for a little bit and then come back and study. I broke down my studying depending on was there an exam that week or in two weeks coming up. Was there a quiz that I had to actually study for? Was this a class that I was struggling a little bit more in than another class? Did I expect to get an A in this class? If so, maybe I can devote a little bit less time to that particular class and more time to this. So those are all factors that played into how I would study. If you've seen any of my study with me videos, you see that I usually do like a study for a block period of time and then I take a break and then I come back and I study again. That was just effective for me. So I would break my studying up like that and then from that I would then decide if I'm spending more time on this particular subject matter or not. After I was done with my study guide and my studying for the week, then it came time for like the quiz or the test or whatever it is that I would be studying for and that's where I used my like teach back method. So for me, I would spend time at school where we have all these like white boards where you can write all over the white boards and I also had like a white board for my kid. It was like a white board, not really a white board. It's like greenish grayish like frosted glass board but whatever. So I have like a white board from IKEA that I would use and then just kind of paper as well. So when I'm at school and if I'm with my small group of friends that I actually study with and it's by small I mean like two to three like no more than that because then it just gets crazy. But if I'm studying with them then we would teach each other the subject matter. And that I feel like that was like the most effective of all of this whole study process, the teach back because you have to know the material to teach it back to someone, right? And if you don't have all of it down, like maybe there was something that even in all of the studying that you've done you missed, your friends can kind of teach you and help you and say oh but this is important or you know Professor X said this so you should actually like add that to your notes just in case it comes up on the exam. So I would do that with like my friends. I'd do it with you know my imaginary class and then I'd do it with like my little dog. It's a key of puppy time because I want to be able and be just like really really proficient and efficient in that material and in that subject matter. So I would go through and I would teach back my information. So if we were talking about like testicular torsion that's where I would go in because you've seen me, I've written the notes, I've listened to the PowerPoints, I've gone through the PowerPoints and then now it's time to teach back. So torsion you know it's a medical emergency and with that being said you know that it's important that you're able to effectively diagnose it. So you have to know the symptoms that the patient is going to come in with, are they going to be like they're going to be nauseous, the pain is going to be sudden and torsion in and of itself is a twisting of the contents of the spermatic cord. So you have to be able to explain that and what that means. So that is what I would do and that's how I would go through my process. So I go through the PowerPoints, I make my little notes, I make my study guide, I study and then I teach it back and that has been so effective for me because it is essential, it's like really really good to memorize this information but make sure that it's in a format on which you can actually memorize it. Like you're getting all of this information in PA school and you have to break it down into something that is actually going to stick in your head. So that is it, that is how I effectively study for PA school and this can be done across the board. Hopefully it is as efficient for you as it is for me and hopefully this is very helpful for you guys. Thank you for this question. If you have any other questions you want to see me make a video on anything else go ahead and leave that in the comment section below right now. Like this video and follow me on Instagram at AdanaThePA and I will talk to you guys next time. Bye!