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3 tips on how to study effectively

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During their training,

medical residents learn countless techniques, surgeries, and procedures

which they’ll later use to save lives.

Being able to remember these skills

can quite literally be a matter of life and death.

With this in mind, a 2006 research study took a class of surgical residents

learning to suture arteries and split them into two groups.

Each received the same study materials,

but one group implemented a small change in how they studied them.

And when tested one month later,

this group performed the surgeries significantly better

than the other residents.

We’ll discuss the secret to that group’s success,

along with two other highly effective study techniques

which can be applied both in and out of the classroom.

But to understand why these methods work,

let's first unpack how the brain learns and stores information.

Say you're trying to memorize the anatomy of the heart.

When you’re introduced to a new concept,

the memory is temporarily encoded in groups of neurons

in a brain area called the hippocampus.


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