7 tips to excel medical
theory exams | Answer
to the Point | Common
Format |Divide
and Rule|Clinical
Corelation | Highlight
|Whats
the question | Neat
|
Answer writing techniques in medical and allied subjects.
Prelude
Being
a medical student, it does not really matter how much you score on any internal
or external exams. Because what matters is when you pass your licensing exam
you are a medical doctor. And you are allowed to practice medicine.
In
some part of the world, the marks actually does matter when you are preparing
for your Post Graduate Exams. Sometime these marks may determine whether you choose any subject before another
person who scored similar score in entrance examination. So, preparing to get a
good subject in post graduate may need preparation as early as you join your
medical school.
It
is not necessary that every student who score better is a real talent with all
the knowledge. While some real talented geniuses who knows everything may not
score well in the questions where you have to write subjectively.
Some
certain things that I practiced while I was a medical student and what I have
seen from student who scored really well in subjective papers and were average
in their objective that there are certain tricks that can hack your examiners
mind and will make you give more and more marks.Currently, I am a teaching
assistant and get to check the paper of the papers of 1st and 2nd
year medical students and may be there were more things that made me give
students more marks than others.
The
first and foremost important thing is the KNOWLEDGE. Some technique might help
you hide the incompetence in the subject but if you don’t have command in the
topic you are about to write then the tips below will just not be enough to
secure a good mark. So the MOST important thing before any exam is prepare the
best. The following will help you stand ahead of your colleague with similar
capabilities and level.
We
are not a literature students that for a 5 marks question we have to elaborate
2 and half pages of information. We are science students so answer to the
point. When I say answer to the point, I
am saying use DIFFERENTIATING TABLES, LISTS, FLOW CHART,
DIAGRAMS to say what you want to say. Writing a text full of information
integrated into paragraphs and cramming all what you know in word may not
impress the examiner equally than the same thing displayed as a graph, table,
list or flow chart. Many articles in this blogs are basically these sort of
things I made to prepare for my exam.
Draw as much as you can and wherever feasible.
Medicine especially anatomy, histology and any surgical subject demands diagrams. But try your best to add diagrams in any questions as possible. Schematic diagram that can be drawn in seconds with minimal skills and must be well labeled. Whatever you have drawn, you do not have to write in text as well. So you are saving your time of writing the story. But the most important thing in the drawing is make sure you LABEL the diagram.
Use color pencils wherever feasible. Like the standard color protocol is red for artery, Dark blue for vein, yellow for nerve, sky or aqua blue for cartilages. This makes your diagram attractive and differentiation between various objects easy.
Make sure to use Hematoxylin and Eosinophil colored (HnE) pencils to draw the histology diagram.
Examples:
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| Causes of Hydronephrosis |
In the illustration above, the student has made a gross diagram of renal outflow system and marked the causes that can occur at the specific level. So, incorporating the anatomy into the etiology make sit look smart and helps improve the presentation.
7 tips to excel medical
theory exams | Answer
to the Point | Common
Format |Divide
and Rule|Clinical
Corelation | Highlight
|Whats
the question | Neat
|
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