it was 2015 when I came across this TV show called a Sherlock in the show we follow a detective who is extremely brilliant and a master of deduction but there was one person who was always one step ahead of Sherlock Charles Augustus Magnuson in the show he's claimed to have data points on all the high tier population of the country it's a mystery where he keeps all his data which he has access to at all times while Sherlock searches Charles's Mansion he finds no evidence of any servers or any data books of any kind and
then Charles mentions that all his information is present inside a castle which is in his mind a memory castle and ever since I watched that episode while being a fascinated kid I always wondered what are the ways in which we can learn a lot of information and store it in our brains at once hi everyone my name is Anu I am now a third- year mvs student thanks a lot I know you're cheering for me so I have a quick exercise for all of you guys watching here's a list of items that I want you
to memorize right now you can pause the video if you want more time but don't take more than 1 minute all right now I need you to write down all the items that I just showed you in a piece of paper or try naming them verbally so I showed you 10 items out of that how many items were you able to name most people at this time get around 50 to 80% of the items correct but very few people get 100% of the items correct all right now look at this image and I want you
to look at all the different items that are present in this image you can pause the video if you want to take more time but again don't take more than 1 minute now I want you to name all the items that you saw in that image right now this time it was not about how many items can you name but how quickly can you name them because you remembered almost all of them in fact most people watching this video remember around 8 to n items from that image right so what does these two results show
you and how is it related to me learning so many books for my MBS examinations well the thing it shows us is that we are visual Learners before langage was even a thing our brains adapted to what they saw if they saw a mushroom which is poisoning their friends they would stay away from that mushroom and if they saw sweet berries which were delicious to eat they used to gather that it was not based upon what you are reading or writing but it was based upon what you are seeing hence the visual portion of our
brain is much more evolved in terms of remembering the complex details in fact our ancestors remembered entire paths which they had walked on so that they could come back home after a hard day of huning and Gathering so again what does this tell you practically how is this related to you doing your second year examinations the point that I was trying to make is that learning is not necessarily based on active recall and space repetition but still can last a very long duration of time so our Theory books are divided into two parts the concepts
as well as the facts and we have got a lot of facts that we just need to keep in our minds and we need those facts spontaneously let's say that I'm walking down the street and a person collapses in front of me having generalized tonic seizures I need to remember what is the drug required and what is the dose that I need to give to this person to save his life and if not that drug then which other drugs similarly there are various other instances in which the facts that we have read in the textbooks
are directly used as practical knowledge in our clinics how do I do it first of all using images let's take an example of a bacteria who has spores now there are numerous bacteria who have spores the location and the size of the spores tell us which bacteria they are learning this factual information is very difficult yet it is very important because these bacteria are kept as spottings in our examinations and one of these bacteria cladium Teton was our spot in our microbiology exam so how does our visual memory develop from our ancestral Age come to
us at this point instead of memorizing what theoretically these bacteria look like I looked up the images of what these bacteria actually look like so I would have a much more visual representation so whenever I saw a drumstick appearance I would know that it is close to reded N if you're a student outside the medical field you can apply that in your day-to-day life as well because I'm sure memorization comes in almost every single field that you have to go to this is a sample of my notes that I used to study for my University
examinations as you can see it has got a lot of different diagrams each segment of this diagram represents a particular thing and that is how I remembered a lot of things at the same time while also not have to read it every single day over and over again all right moving on to our second exercise here's a list of all the different bacteria that cause tuberculosis it is called as a microbacterium tuberculosis complex and it is one of the important questions that we are asked in our vas I give you one minute to remember all
the names which are shown in the screen right now you can pause the video if you want to even if you're a non-medical student give this a try because the medical student who reads it for the first time is basically just like you he has never read it in the first place and he doesn't know what these names mean anyway so just give it a try Co can you name the bacteria which I was just showing in the screen if you can then it's awesome you've studied this chapter but if you can't then welcome to
second year a year in which you will forget more than you have read all right so now I'm going to make your life easier and tell you how I memorized all of these bacteria in under 1 minute and I didn't even have to revise it over and over again here we go imagine microbacterium tuberculosis sitting on a cow cow means bis right then these two guys the cow and the microbacterium go towards Capri Capri is a place located near nagpur after Capri they go to South Africa because they are on a world too right in
Africa they meet Mickey Mouse which is their favorite character of course and Mickey Mouse offers them Pani puuri which they eat so let's just quickly revise what happened microbacterium tuberculosis sat on a cow and they went to Capri after Capri they went to Africa they met Mickey Mouse and Mickey Mouse gave them panipuri after eating the panipuri the micro bacterium ear fell off so what does this mean anyway this this is a story and I want you to realize how powerful the story is microbacterium tuberculosis sat on bis tuberculosis bis they went to Capri which
basically means Capri then they went to Africa African then they met Mickey Mouse which is basically microti then pip for panipuri and finally ketti that means kga ketti just by remembering this one short story of how a microbacterium tuberculosis went all the way to Africa to eat panipuri with Mickey house can make you remember these complicated names I'm going to give you one more example of how I use this to memorize the different drugs so we have third generation sefalosporin a classic which a lot of people get stuck on so here's how I learned it
I was having a sore throat so I took the ziy tablet that tablet got absorbed into my blood and it went to my kidneys to be excreted in the kidneys it met a poo site which is a cell present over there and both of them took a taxi to go to Delhi in Delhi these both guys met a guy with three axes due to all of this traveling Mr zei was feeling not so well so I took a parasit and then the PTO site was very ziddi that he wanted to buy a particular sweater from
Delhi so this is a story that I used to learn all the third generation sefalosporin and this was asked as one of the mcqs in our final examination here's an explanation of what this means I took zifi tablet zifi the content is cxm which is overall third generation sefalosporin used for sore throat that's how I remembered it when I ate that it went to my poo sites so it is C pooy then they took a taxi which was seot taxim they went to Delhi seph denir they met a guy with three axes seph dragon which
gave them a paracetamol tablet SEO parazone and finally the pooy was very ziddi Sease so these are the third generation ofal porin that you have memorized just now with me it does not matter if you're a medical student or not this is the power of Storytelling and I've used the storytelling technique in almost all the subjects that I've studied this reduces my time for space repetition by a lot because even if I just read it once before the examination everything will come back to me I don't have to rewrite it again and learn it again
which saves me a lot of time to make awesome YouTube videos like this by the way if you're enjoying it and if you haven't subscribed to the channel please consider doing so so a lot of you guys might be thinking that these are just pneumonics but my friends pneumonics are very different because why you can easily forget what the pneumonics actually mean and you can forget the neonics themselves these are stories and stories are permanently engraved in our brains because our brain was built to remember stories and that is the reason why you still remember
Avengers Infinity War back from the day that you first saw it and don't remember what you studied early in the morning today moving on to our second last technique here I'm going to talk about tables so in microbiology we have a lot of different pathogens to study and each one of them can be super confusing I'm sure if you're a non-medical student you have some subjects like this which have so many so many facts that you are definitely bound to get confused at that time make the use of tables because then your mind knows a
visual way of representing that information even though you can't form an image out of it a table is something which brings you much closer to that visual memory which I was speaking about a bit earlier apart from these factual information that we have to learn in mbbs there's a lot a lot of Concepts that we also have to memorize learn and use in Practical life how do we learn this Concepts first of all by actually going to the clinics and Performing these experiments ourselves you read all about how to take a pulse but unless until
you don't practice it it's not worth it but sometimes the facts are not as practical as taking a pulse or taking the blood pressure but more of internal mechanisms of the Body for example the renen Angiotensin mechanism or how a certain drug acts for these I used a lot of flowcharts and a lot of diagrams which are given in standard text and also you can make some of your own flowcharts Etc this makes you keep all the information again in a visual Manner and that is what gives you more marks in the examination also if
you are making flowcharts that's going to be super helpful moving on to the last part which I personally have not tried so far but I'm very excited to do that in third year this is called as the memory Castle which Charles augustas Magnuson was talking about in the Sherlocks episode basically what you have to do is that you have to visualize a familiar environment that may be your home that may be a hostel room or that may be any place that you love it could also be your Minecraft base for that matter and now every
single time that you want to memorize something you just imagine yourself virtually in this room place the facts place the images place the concepts on different places for example I could could keep the microbacterium tuberculosis complex entire image on this table I could imagine what the different bacterial spores look like by drawing them on the wall the more creative you get with this the better it is that you will remember it and the next time you want to recall those facts just go inside your mind castle and think what is kept in this table what
is drawn on that wall and those should come back to you I am going to be honest with you I have not tried it but I heard that it is super effective hence it is worth mentioning over here however if you do end up making one please do let me know down below by commenting apart from all of that limiting the content that you want to study for the examination repeating the answers and the questions that are going to be coming in the examinations And discussing with your friends is all the other different things which
I used to memorize all the different subjects together and hopefully they will give me good marks after the result is out so is active recall and space repetition is still a thing of course it is still very good but the only downside is that you cannot apply it for very large subjects for example if you have seven subjects you cannot do an active recall for all of that that seven subjects altogether right you'll be in the need of some things which are going to reduce your time in that recall in that repetition phase and the
sooner and sooner you move on to reading it once and learning it using all of these techniques which I talked about is going to be saving you a lot of time in the future anyways I have two requests for you after watching this video first of all if you haven't subscribed already please consider doing so because making videos such as this take a lot of time effort and energy and subscribing by Just 2 seconds makes up for all of that apart from that you can always change your mind later request to is please share this
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