Your best option is probably to ask your fellow Manchester students as they will know what works well for the course.
I'm not at Manchester and know nothing about the course there, but I've found that Google is really unhelpful as it gives far too broad range of results. Personally I like to go to the library, start with a basic anatomy /physiology book such as Tortora, then look at a specialist text to work from (carefully chosen on 3 criteria: 1. not too fat 2. general title, e.g. Intro to Cardiology 3. lots of pictures, preferably in colour). I find this approach works for me. Lots of people work differently, e.g. using Osmosis or other online resources.
I'm not at Manchester and know nothing about the course there, but I've found that Google is really unhelpful as it gives far too broad range of results. Personally I like to go to the library, start with a basic anatomy /physiology book such as Tortora, then look at a specialist text to work from (carefully chosen on 3 criteria: 1. not too fat 2. general title, e.g. Intro to Cardiology 3. lots of pictures, preferably in colour). I find this approach works for me. Lots of people work differently, e.g. using Osmosis or other online resources.
Original post by Wizard...
Are there any resources out there I'm struggling with the self lead study styleat this uni...
This is quite hard. I struggled so much and it's likely a process that you will have to go through to find your best way of learning and sourcing knowledge. Make some friends in the upper years if you can, notes get passed around. There are plenty of google docs with older student's notes. Also google docs with pdf of all the medical books you will need - and hardly use. Oxford handbook is quite good you should get that for free. Other than that just google, geeky medic and pubmed are good resources for PBLs. Lecture slides can be difficult to decipher, there's not really a quick fix to this aside from one thing I can recommend being to buy the USMLE books which are revision books for the medical examination in the US. They'll cover topics as a revision guide would although they are quite expensive!!
Original post by TheProphetsPath
This is quite hard. I struggled so much and it's likely a process that you will have to go through to find your best way of learning and sourcing knowledge. Make some friends in the upper years if you can, notes get passed around. There are plenty of google docs with older student's notes. Also google docs with pdf of all the medical books you will need - and hardly use. Oxford handbook is quite good you should get that for free. Other than that just google, geeky medic and pubmed are good resources for PBLs. Lecture slides can be difficult to decipher, there's not really a quick fix to this aside from one thing I can recommend being to buy the USMLE books which are revision books for the medical examination in the US. They'll cover topics as a revision guide would although they are quite expensive!!
I think there are USMLE books available in PDF too. No need to buy any textbooks at uni when you have the library and PDF/online question banks.
@lifeofamedic is a Manchester medic, maybe she can help x
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I think there are USMLE books available in PDF too. No need to buy any textbooks at uni when you have the library and PDF/online question banks.
ah yes correct
Hey, I'm a third year at Manchester, I'm presuming you're in your first year?
The self-study element takes a bit of getting used to so don't worry if you're a still unsure about how to approach it. I can advise you based on how I approached PBL and Anatomy etc. Here's a post detailing what I did for the first 2 years: https://lifeofamedic.com/2019/06/30/how-i-studied-during-my-pre-clinical-medical-years/
It's a bit long, so I'll give you an overview here.
I basically kept all my PBL work focussed around the lectures. I then used the ILOs and learning agenda to google areas that weren't covered in lectures. For your PBL you might be unsure about the level of detail so what I'd say is to keep it focussed on physiology and learning the "normal" mechanism of things well. In terms of the disease in the case, pathophysiology is the most important at your stage, symptoms, risk factors and causes are also important to cover. Treatment and diagnosis aren't as important for you right now so you should do them, but more briefly (you don't need to learn any guidelines or diagnostic pathways). Drug mechanisms from the case are important though.
I actually learnt all my physiology from the lectures. I occasionally used YouTube videos and that level of detail was more than sufficient. Don’t get bogged down learning names of molecules or things like that, for respiration for example (when you come to do it next semester) you don’t have to do it in nearly as much detail as we did for A-level, it’s the overview that’s more important. For information about the disease I used to use the NHS website, patient.info (the medical professional version) and MSD manuals and that was enough detail. Osmosis on YouTube is also great for giving an overview on the conditions. I didn’t use textbooks at all as they have far too much detail in my opinion.
For Anatomy, I solely used to TeachMeAnatomy and the workbook to make my notes. I did watch youtube videos if I was confused about a topic or to help picture it, AnatomyZone is amazing. Again, I din't use textbooks, but a few of times I did look things up in Moore and Daley's Clinical Anatomy if I was getting contradictory info, but that was very rarely (prob about 7 times in the whole 2 years)
With self study, I think you'll make your life a lot easier if you just use the internet, lectures and the resources that are on 1Med, that's what I did and that level of detail is more than sufficient. Helpful Youtube channels: https://lifeofamedic.com/2018/06/20/5-youtube-channels-all-medical-students-should-subscribe-to/
The self-study element takes a bit of getting used to so don't worry if you're a still unsure about how to approach it. I can advise you based on how I approached PBL and Anatomy etc. Here's a post detailing what I did for the first 2 years: https://lifeofamedic.com/2019/06/30/how-i-studied-during-my-pre-clinical-medical-years/
It's a bit long, so I'll give you an overview here.
I basically kept all my PBL work focussed around the lectures. I then used the ILOs and learning agenda to google areas that weren't covered in lectures. For your PBL you might be unsure about the level of detail so what I'd say is to keep it focussed on physiology and learning the "normal" mechanism of things well. In terms of the disease in the case, pathophysiology is the most important at your stage, symptoms, risk factors and causes are also important to cover. Treatment and diagnosis aren't as important for you right now so you should do them, but more briefly (you don't need to learn any guidelines or diagnostic pathways). Drug mechanisms from the case are important though.
I actually learnt all my physiology from the lectures. I occasionally used YouTube videos and that level of detail was more than sufficient. Don’t get bogged down learning names of molecules or things like that, for respiration for example (when you come to do it next semester) you don’t have to do it in nearly as much detail as we did for A-level, it’s the overview that’s more important. For information about the disease I used to use the NHS website, patient.info (the medical professional version) and MSD manuals and that was enough detail. Osmosis on YouTube is also great for giving an overview on the conditions. I didn’t use textbooks at all as they have far too much detail in my opinion.
For Anatomy, I solely used to TeachMeAnatomy and the workbook to make my notes. I did watch youtube videos if I was confused about a topic or to help picture it, AnatomyZone is amazing. Again, I din't use textbooks, but a few of times I did look things up in Moore and Daley's Clinical Anatomy if I was getting contradictory info, but that was very rarely (prob about 7 times in the whole 2 years)
With self study, I think you'll make your life a lot easier if you just use the internet, lectures and the resources that are on 1Med, that's what I did and that level of detail is more than sufficient. Helpful Youtube channels: https://lifeofamedic.com/2018/06/20/5-youtube-channels-all-medical-students-should-subscribe-to/
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