1st year Cardiff C21 medic needs help!!! Medicine School University Advice

Hi,

I'm a first year medic and I am quite confused as to what depth we should be learning content delivered to us as I now realise (if I have realised correctly) a lot of our learning is self-directed. Thus I have a few queries regarding what exactly we have to know to pass year 1:



1) is content covered in lectures the bare minimum, right amount or superfluous?
2) if I learn content covered in seminars well, will that be to a sufficient depth for me to pass? If not how much extra reading/note making should I be doing?
3) I have now acquired the learning outcomes for PCS - are they useful? should direct myself more towards them and learn content based on them more than lectures&seminars OR learn from lecture&seminars more than trying to cover every single learning outcome described even if it isn't covered by the lecturers?
4) any general helpful advice?

Thank you so much in advance. I have asked these questions to a few 2nd yr medics but I felt like they didn't answer my questions in the way I liked them too...I understand it may take a while to answer the questions but I think many other 1st year medics, not only in Cardiff, would benefit from your answer...thank you once again!

Hi,

I'm a first year medic and I am quite confused as to what depth we should be learning content delivered to us as I now realise (if I have realised correctly) a lot of our learning is self-directed. Thus I have a few queries regarding what exactly we have to know to pass year 1:



1) is content covered in lectures the bare minimum, right amount or superfluous?
2) if I learn content covered in seminars well, will that be to a sufficient depth for me to pass? If not how much extra reading/note making should I be doing?
3) I have now acquired the learning outcomes for PCS - are they useful? should direct myself more towards them and learn content based on them more than lectures&seminars OR learn from lecture&seminars more than trying to cover every single learning outcome described even if it isn't covered by the lecturers?
4) any general helpful advice?

Thank you so much in advance. I have asked these questions to a few 2nd yr medics but I felt like they didn't answer my questions in the way I liked them too...I understand it may take a while to answer the questions but I think many other 1st year medics, not only in Cardiff, would benefit from your answer...thank you once again!