Newsletter How to Study Surgery? What is Surgery? Surgery is the branch of medical practice that treats injuries, diseases, and deformities by the physical removal, repair, or readjustment of organs and tissues, often involving cutting into the body. Surgery is a subject that you must understand and practice the subject and not memorize by heart,  like memorizing drug names. So to learn surgery, you should make sure that you know Surgical Anatomy, and Pathology, because they are connected to each other. However, I would say that surgery is also one of the most important subjects you should study if you’re a student in medicine, nursing or any health-related course dealing with human lives. Because you should understand why a patient is presenting with certain clinical signs and symptoms. Then only you’ll be able to identify the Surgical Emergencies and you can act quickly to save the patient or organ. How to study Surgery? Surgery is one of the difficult subjects, yet interesting subject in medical school. Your knowledge in Surgery will help you throughout your carrier, also one day it will be lifesaving. We’ve explained all of the most effective methods to study Surgery to cut your study time in half and retain more to score highest marks in your exams and perform well in your clinical rotations. 1) Create a suitable environment to study Creating a good learning environment allows you to maximize your learning efficiency. Combination of effective time management, good reading and note taking skills, Illustration skills, creating effective test taking strategies and your hard work will give you a productive outcome. Identify all of your environmental distractions that interfere with your concentration. STARVE YOUR DISTRACTIONS, FEED YOUR FOCUS! That’s the key to success. Get LIFETIME Access 2) Know your Anatomy & Pathology Remember! Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology are not just for exams, they are for life. You don’t have to be a genius in Anatomy and Pathology, but you should know the basics to understand the clinical presentations in surgical diseases and what happens inside the body in certain surgical cases. So if you’re going to study the Surgical conditions of the Gastrointestinal System in the coming week, just go through your basic anatomical structure of the Gastrointestinal System, surrounding structures, their blood supply, and pathophysiological process in surgical conditions. So, when you go to a surgical lecture and your professor is talking about Acute Pancreatitis, you will clearly understand how the Inflammation of the pancreas causes pancreatitis and how you can diagnose it clinically.  3) Know teaching style of your professor! Every professor is different in their teaching style. Some may give you study notes prior to lectures, so you can have a basic idea before you go to the lecture. Some professors require students to learn by themselves using textbooks and through research. If you have such professors, you can ask your seniors to see how they studied the subject.  Some professors give you homework and assignments based on the theories that are mainly assessed in the exams. So you should focus more on such topics and related questions. Download Pathophysiology & Clinical Medicine Flashcards eBook Sample of Pathophysiology Made Easy Flashcards eBook 4) Collect resources to study There are actually a lot of resources available to you to make your studying endeavors easier. You should use all of the resources and a combination of learning techniques to maximize your studying effectiveness and reinforce the concepts in Surgery. You can take advantage of your textbooks, class handouts, reading materials, lab material your professor provides, and also there are many Online Study Resources & Notes that are accessible to students. Textbooks: Always use standard textbooks for your studies. They provide you the highly reliable resources. Because you can clarify your doubts or read up on a chapter you’re not familiar with. Reading materials: You should always study your reading materials and notes provided by your university. Because they will provide notes from chapters focusing on what you must know for your exams. Google: Google is always our best friend to search on any topic. You can search mnemonics, diagrams, and word associations to make your learning easy. But always make sure that you refer to trusted sources. Because not everything you find on google is 100% true. I always use and recommend websites like Medscape, PubMed, and MayoClinic for high-quality and reliable articles. YouTube: There are many YouTubers who make our learning easy. Many complex topics in Surgery are explained in an easy way on YouTube. This is especially helpful for students who are visual or aural learners. Later you can use youtube videos to see how to perform surgeries on live patients.  You can get access to our Surgery Study Resources Library to get access to more than 130+  presentations and all other medical resources that will be helpful for your entire career.  Get Access to Medical Resources Library Some slides from the presentations from our Medical Resources Library 5) Don’t memorize the facts, UNDERSTAND IT!  You can’t memorize the facts without understanding it. You can put all the important points in a flowchart and you can make study sheet for each disease. If you try to memorize the facts, you’ll forget them very easily. So you have to understand the pathophysiological process and clinical presentations that happens in a disease.  6) Take Notes You don’t remember everything you hear, but when you write down notes, it will help you retain more information. Sometimes you even don’t understand everything your professor teaches in class. But when you get back to your home, you’ll understand it more clearly when you revise the notes you’ve taken. These notes will be so helpful in understanding the theories in books and the reading materials given by your institute.  Also, these notes are the secret behind scoring high marks in your exams. You can focus more on these notes before your exams and they will be useful to answer your MCQs from theories that are not covered in your