If you want step-by-step guidance for Notion, I made a course you’ll like which teaches you everything you need to know about Notion from scratch 😊➡️ go.dabido.com.au/notionPodia TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Rationale 01:08 Every Topic In Medicine 01:57 How active recall works here 02:42 Super fast note writing 03:28 Real fast copy pasting 03:56 How to write good notes 04:13 Writing good notes: Asthma 05:50 Simplify to understand 06:24 Table of contents give high level overviews 06:47 Highlighting highlights weaknesses 07:20 IMPORTANT - MEMORISING HIGH YIELD FACTS 11:20 How to work through your notes 12:41 Using hints (for SAQ exams) 13:44 CHUNKING for memorising more 15:34 Distillation into functional notes 16:30 On memorising medications and doses 16:57 Tick system to avoid overdoing one section 17:48 CAN NOTION ACTUALLY LOAD THIS BIG PAGE? 19:03 SUMMARY 19:30 CONCLUSION: A counterintuitive system that...worked for me LOL 19:57 PS: Random channel musings PS: if you like this, consider joining my newsletter :) where I plan to share more ideas on learning and other related things that might be helpful for your life and productivity at newsletter.dabido.com.au
Hey Dabido! Awesome video as always. I was wondering how you like this format of body system and just a fat list of toggles of conditions compared to the clinical zettelkasten table you made a video on a year ago? Would love to chat about this or even share my setup if that would interest you.
Oh hey! Thanks so much! So, I actually still use my clinical zettelkasten on a day to day basis, although tbh I retrospectively wonder if it could be called that because of the lack of backlinks. My medicine specific workflow is this: - In studying: this Every Topic In Medicine page. - When capturing ideas and cases from work that I might come across twice: Clinical Zettelkasten - When I need to access a procedure on the fly: Clinical Zettelkasten A fat list of toggles like this is really good for sitting down and learning stuff as a whole, and then distilling the need-to-memorise bits into Anki. But the searchability is a little too slow to use it in front of patients, especially when often your workplaces have subpar windows computers that can barely run Microsoft Word due to 4GB RAM. I use a Zettelkasten for things where I need a short set of tips fast eg if I’m titrating someone’s thyroid medications precisely. This page sacrifices searchability/quick access for a big picture “let’s cover everything in this specialty today” vibe. If I were to study medical school again: I think this method is honestly simpler in how it helps study for exams. Perhaps this is a Dabido-specific thing but I find a visual that doesn’t change that much helps me memorise long swathes of stuff much better (One Page), as opposed to the changes in visuals that might happen when you’re trying to study by filtering by tags (Clinical Zettelkasten). Another benefit is that it’s really easy to fill out a huge number of objectives in advance from some PDF by just copy pasting them and making them toggles.
Hey Dabi! I love the idea of a clinical second brain, specially as I'm a learning doctor myself. I noticed your most recent content focuses more kn Obsidian than Notion. Do you think Obsidian would work for clinical knowledge as well? I'd love to hear your take on that.
Hey! That’s a superb question. So, broadly speaking I think Notion is more practical as a doctor specifically, because Notion is easier to search databases with on mobile. I’ve talked about the idea of a Clinical Zettelkasten in an old video, and that’s literally what I still use to this day except now with years worth of experience. :) My current system: - Obsidian for deep stuff where I want to think (e.g. research, hard questions, papers to study in-depth; not time sensitive) - Notion for day to day practical things (clinical guidelines or what I should do; time sensitive, need to get info quickly) - Apple notes purely for ultra quick search (emergency algorithms, emergency doses) Arguably you could use Obsidian for study, but I personally made one gigantic page on Notion full of toggle lists for every medical condition. Lastly: don’t forget to Anki the stuff that is memory-critical.
Is there specific source you base your info on and choose your photo reference from? And what do you recommend for IM whether it's books or website? Thanks alot for the detailed explanation
Oooooo there's heaps and it really depends on the specialties you're studying. A lot of what I'm using is Australia specific too. That said, just a few of the sources I use: - UpToDate - eTG Australia - Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine - Radiopaedia (for radiology) - DermNet (Dermatology) - RCH Clinical Guidelines (Paediatrics) - AJGP (for general practice stuff) - Check articles (for general practice stuff) - GPAcademy (GP exam prep course for writtens and OSCE) For anatomy: - Netter's Atlas of Anatomy (for pretty pictures eg the one in the thumbnail) For physiology: - Guyton's is the big daddy, but I used Saladin's when I wanted more simple explanations to explain things the first time For easy explanations: - UpToDate (Basics, Beyond The Basics) - even though this is patient info I sometimes use it if I really don't get something, although that happens not so often these days - BetterHealthChannel There's like a bajillion more resources but it super depends on what you're studying and the way your Uni lectures test you. :) so you could always ask the lecturers too.
Hype - can already tell these vids are going to get me through this year
Haha I appreciate it dude ~
If you want step-by-step guidance for Notion, I made a course you’ll like which teaches you everything you need to know about Notion from scratch 😊➡️ go.dabido.com.au/notionPodia
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Rationale
01:08 Every Topic In Medicine
01:57 How active recall works here
02:42 Super fast note writing
03:28 Real fast copy pasting
03:56 How to write good notes
04:13 Writing good notes: Asthma
05:50 Simplify to understand
06:24 Table of contents give high level overviews
06:47 Highlighting highlights weaknesses
07:20 IMPORTANT - MEMORISING HIGH YIELD FACTS
11:20 How to work through your notes
12:41 Using hints (for SAQ exams)
13:44 CHUNKING for memorising more
15:34 Distillation into functional notes
16:30 On memorising medications and doses
16:57 Tick system to avoid overdoing one section
17:48 CAN NOTION ACTUALLY LOAD THIS BIG PAGE?
19:03 SUMMARY
19:30 CONCLUSION: A counterintuitive system that...worked for me LOL
19:57 PS: Random channel musings
PS: if you like this, consider joining my newsletter :) where I plan to share more ideas on learning and other related things that might be helpful for your life and productivity at newsletter.dabido.com.au
Hey Dabido! Awesome video as always.
I was wondering how you like this format of body system and just a fat list of toggles of conditions compared to the clinical zettelkasten table you made a video on a year ago?
Would love to chat about this or even share my setup if that would interest you.
Oh hey! Thanks so much!
So, I actually still use my clinical zettelkasten on a day to day basis, although tbh I retrospectively wonder if it could be called that because of the lack of backlinks.
My medicine specific workflow is this:
- In studying: this Every Topic In Medicine page.
- When capturing ideas and cases from work that I might come across twice: Clinical Zettelkasten
- When I need to access a procedure on the fly: Clinical Zettelkasten
A fat list of toggles like this is really good for sitting down and learning stuff as a whole, and then distilling the need-to-memorise bits into Anki. But the searchability is a little too slow to use it in front of patients, especially when often your workplaces have subpar windows computers that can barely run Microsoft Word due to 4GB RAM. I use a Zettelkasten for things where I need a short set of tips fast eg if I’m titrating someone’s thyroid medications precisely.
This page sacrifices searchability/quick access for a big picture “let’s cover everything in this specialty today” vibe.
If I were to study medical school again: I think this method is honestly simpler in how it helps study for exams. Perhaps this is a Dabido-specific thing but I find a visual that doesn’t change that much helps me memorise long swathes of stuff much better (One Page), as opposed to the changes in visuals that might happen when you’re trying to study by filtering by tags (Clinical Zettelkasten).
Another benefit is that it’s really easy to fill out a huge number of objectives in advance from some PDF by just copy pasting them and making them toggles.
Hey Dabi! I love the idea of a clinical second brain, specially as I'm a learning doctor myself. I noticed your most recent content focuses more kn Obsidian than Notion. Do you think Obsidian would work for clinical knowledge as well? I'd love to hear your take on that.
Hey! That’s a superb question.
So, broadly speaking I think Notion is more practical as a doctor specifically, because Notion is easier to search databases with on mobile. I’ve talked about the idea of a Clinical Zettelkasten in an old video, and that’s literally what I still use to this day except now with years worth of experience. :)
My current system:
- Obsidian for deep stuff where I want to think (e.g. research, hard questions, papers to study in-depth; not time sensitive)
- Notion for day to day practical things (clinical guidelines or what I should do; time sensitive, need to get info quickly)
- Apple notes purely for ultra quick search (emergency algorithms, emergency doses)
Arguably you could use Obsidian for study, but I personally made one gigantic page on Notion full of toggle lists for every medical condition.
Lastly: don’t forget to Anki the stuff that is memory-critical.
Is there specific source you base your info on and choose your photo reference from? And what do you recommend for IM whether it's books or website?
Thanks alot for the detailed explanation
Oooooo there's heaps and it really depends on the specialties you're studying. A lot of what I'm using is Australia specific too.
That said, just a few of the sources I use:
- UpToDate
- eTG Australia
- Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
- Radiopaedia (for radiology)
- DermNet (Dermatology)
- RCH Clinical Guidelines (Paediatrics)
- AJGP (for general practice stuff)
- Check articles (for general practice stuff)
- GPAcademy (GP exam prep course for writtens and OSCE)
For anatomy:
- Netter's Atlas of Anatomy (for pretty pictures eg the one in the thumbnail)
For physiology:
- Guyton's is the big daddy, but I used Saladin's when I wanted more simple explanations to explain things the first time
For easy explanations:
- UpToDate (Basics, Beyond The Basics) - even though this is patient info I sometimes use it if I really don't get something, although that happens not so often these days
- BetterHealthChannel
There's like a bajillion more resources but it super depends on what you're studying and the way your Uni lectures test you. :) so you could always ask the lecturers too.
@@dabi_ thanks alot!
Love your study approach and will use your tips definitely
if have subtitles, that would much better.
Can you please share this notion template (with the contents)
Probably not! There’s too much copyright stuff in there that distributing it would be kind of illegal 😂