How to work/revise in medical school

Hi, I'm starting Medicine at university in September. I'm a little worried about how I'm going to arrange my revision material and actually revise.
What I mean is, in school you get given the notes to fill out and revise from. I'm a good learner and rote learning of vast amounts of material is one of my strong points, however, making my own notes is a major weak point, I've given it a go but I always end u writing it out near enough word for word from the textbook (for fear of missing out key words or phrasing things in a way examiners won't like) so I just reverted back to revising from my notes and books.

I know you sometimes get lecture notes and slides but I've been led to believe that you're always going to have to do some note taking or annotation of your own,then write it up at home. I can see myself struggling with this at some stage.

Can any current or past medical students give me some advice on best to go about making your own notes in terms of how much detail is required an how many sources to use and any sources to use or avoid? Also, what revision techniques do you find useful. My best technique is just reading to try and understand and get a feel for the topic, then going over it again to learn it off and then supplementing that with past paper questions. However, I want to try and expand that into other things like perhaps flash cards etc so I'm just wondering what others have found effective in the past?

Sorry if I rambled, any responses would be greatly appreciated.
Tom