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2018-11-23 · Study with me · Ali · recording, 5:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Learning and studying · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Sponsor segment present, Evidence-based framing

Preparing for the two-day Advanced Life Support course, junior doctor Ali writes active recall questions into his Google Sheets spreadsheet and Notability instead of notes, reads the manual for the big picture, and highlights only what is new to him, since rereading and highlighting are poor revision techniques.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Morning and an invitation to a medical mission trip to Sudan

  • ★★★ A senior medicine doctor invites Ali on a medical mission trip to Sudan: if it works out, Ali and nine other doctors will go in January to run mobile medical clinics and teaching workshops for medical students at Khartoum University. (hedged) — 00:00:29

00:00:44 — Proporta parcel and sponsor read

  • ★★ Ali is working through the pre-course materials for the Advanced Life Support (ALS) course, a two-day course training doctors to recognise acutely deteriorating patients and resuscitate them, which he takes the following week. — 00:00:58

00:01:11 — ALS pre-course modules and the active recall spreadsheet

  • ★★ Though not usually keen on pre-reading, Ali takes the Advanced Life Support pre-course materials very seriously because lives are on the line: in the past few years he has been in situations where hospital resuscitation attempts did not go so well, and he wants to know what he is doing at a cardiac arrest. — 00:01:27
  • ★★★ While working through the Advanced Life Support modules, Ali adds a sheet to his 2018–19 active recall spreadsheet with questions on what he did not know: a flashcard alternative he finds works better than flashcards for some material. — 00:01:27 · active recall, Google Sheets
  • ★★ Ali is working on a video explaining his active recall spreadsheet in more detail. — 00:01:27 · active recall, Google Sheets
  • ★★★ In Ali's active recall spreadsheet each question has its answer in the next column; when testing himself he turns the answer font white, then colours the questions he struggled with yellow, orange or red by how bad his recall was. — 00:01:27 · active recall, Google Sheets
  • ★★ The colour-coded questions make Ali's spreadsheet a very easy way to see the holes in his knowledge when he looks through it again. — 00:02:16 · Google Sheets

00:02:31 — Errands, editing the iPad Pro review, a palliative care meeting and wheelchair-racing banter with Molly

  • ★ Ali goes to a meeting at the clinical school with the palliative care team and staff from Macmillan, a cancer support charity. — 00:02:45 · Palliative care

00:03:15 — Reading the course manual for the big picture, writing questions, and when to highlight

  • ★★★ Reading the long Advanced Life Support manual, which he says sometimes just has to be done, Ali keeps a broad perspective, aiming at the big picture rather than small details, and relates what he reads to his own experience of resuscitation. — 00:03:15
  • ★★★ When Ali meets something new and important, he highlights it but above all turns it into a question to test himself, in his spreadsheet if really important, otherwise on a Notability page on his iPad Pro: he writes questions, not information. — 00:04:02 · active recall, Notability, iPad Pro
  • ★★ Ali says active recall is by far the most efficient study technique. — 00:04:32 · active recall · first in: 2018-04-10, Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30
  • ★★ Ali tries to minimise his highlighting: the evidence from various studies, he says, shows that rereading and highlighting are pretty poor revision techniques. — 00:04:32 · active recall
  • ★★★ Ali thinks highlighting can help on a first pass to mark what is new, as with the Advanced Life Support manual he mostly knows; learning material for the first time, he would avoid highlighting at first and write questions testing his broad understanding. — 00:04:32 · active recall
  • ★ Ali buys a set of Philips Hue smart light bulbs in the Amazon Black Friday sales and spends the evening setting them up and trying the light settings. — 00:05:01 · Philips Hue, Amazon

00:05:05 — A Greatest Showman cover and setting up Philips Hue bulbs

00:05:30 — Studying at a leisurely pace with efficient tactics; sign-off

  • ★★★ Ali enjoys studying and, outside the immediate run-up to important exams, takes it at a leisurely pace, using active recall and spaced repetition to avoid spending hours reading a textbook and making notes. — 00:05:30 · active recall, spaced repetition

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Central: active recall · Advanced Life Support · Google Sheets

Also: People: Molly Hunt

Works: The Greatest Showman

Organizations: Amazon · Macmillan Cancer Support

Concepts: Palliative care · spaced repetition

Places: Sudan

Products: Boosted Mini S · iPad Pro · Notability · Philips Hue

Also centred on Advanced Life Support: Study with Me + Active Recall tips · Life as a Junior Doctor

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