Using OneNote, you can import entire power point presentations (even the notes at the bottom of each slide) into a single document and add your notes and drawings as well. OneNote – This is the program that I use for notes during class.
#Growly notes copy paste no formatting professional#
Then get prepared for the shock that when you graduate and begin practice, the puzzle you have solved is really only part of an even larger puzzle.that you will continue to work on for the rest of your professional life. But realize that you need that summative knowledge base that you will have to fit together like an ongoing puzzle throughout your PA education. So keep the separate notebooks or whatever you decide to do. When you sit for a summative exam such as the PackRat and then the PANCE or have to be pass an OSCE (objective structured clinical examination), the knowledge base needed to be successful isn't stored in separate notebooks but has climbed up the learning pyramid from knowledge and comprehension to application, synthesis and evaluation.
Eventually all those notebooks need to become one large notebook. So there needs to be a process to take your separate notebooks and interleave that knowledge, combining anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, medical science and behavioral science together to actually perform what you are trained to do, which is practice clinical medicine. But cardiorenal physiology is what you need to understand when treating the patient with heart failure manifested by severe dyspnea several months later during your clinical rotation. For example, you have a great grasp of cardiac physiology and renal physiology separately during each respective block. Unfortunately when you need to retrieve that knowledge for real time application, likely the context you used to store is dissimilar to the situation it has to be applied. Placing notes in separate notebooks keeps that knowledge in distinct areas. Common to want to organize everything into it's own tidy area.
Using reflection, can associate material with what is already known and place it into context in one's knowledge base.īut the OP asked about organization of notes. Retrieval practice on material (quizzing) uncovers knowledge deficits that a learner does not know they dont know, the unknown unknown.Ĭan use self generation and retrieval practice to REFLECT on the material. Self generation always does better than using other's notes or rereading. This is an example of two strategies proven successful in cognitive psychology studies. I heard from a faculty member recently that 5 years on, didactic students are still passing down my quizzes. I'd then go through and erase the answers, and have a self-test, which I shared with my classmates. I took notes in the form of short-answer questions.