This led to a lot of anxiety knowing that I didn’t have any memory anchors to remember these important facts.If there’s one thing I regret about my time in medical school it’s that I wish that I would have used Picmonic from day one. While studying the Sketchy Micro videos, I noticed that there were things mentioned in the First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 book that were nowhere to be found in their drawings. Reason 1: There are a lot of things Sketchy Micro is missing.
Najeeb for physiology, Lecturio medical videos for all sub.Study Sketchy Micro: Rhabdovirus flashcards from Walter The-Cat's class online, or in Brainscape's iPhone or Android app. You may try another sources if it is for medical school such as Dr. In my opinion, here is what you’re missing if you use Sketchy Medical.The basis of the parasite scheme was that the dirigible would launch scout aircraft to range far from the mother ship, but the N2Y-1 was really only useful as.Answer (1 of 3): i just like sketchy microbiology, its the best of all, but other subject i didn’t like, i prefer to use it by yourself and see if it work for you or not. I decided to give it a try and used it, but in hindsight, in addition to Sketchy videos being more time-consuming, there are two main reasons why I wish I would have used the Picmonic for Medicine Microbiology cards instead from the beginning.
Thanks to Picmonic’s creator tool I could also create my own visual mnemonic flashcards for any topics I wanted to cover. While other classmates used and created traditional flashcards and struggled to remember them, I was using Picmonic and remembering facts in a much easier and effective way with short, efficient visual mnemonics. Medical school is not easy and there is an incredible amount of information that you need to learn in a short amount of time.
This led to a lot of anxiety knowing that I didn’t have any memory anchors to remember these important facts.One of the first things I noticed that were missing were the exotoxins and endotoxins. Weve taken what the science shows - image mnemonics work.While studying the Sketchy Micro videos, I noticed that there were things mentioned in the First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 book that were nowhere to be found in their drawings. With Picmonic, facts become pictures.
Reason #2: Sketchy’s approach is less memorable. There are also important organisms that are not covered in Sketchy Micro that can be found in the Picmonic database, such as:There are more examples of missing facts and organisms on Sketchy Micro, but with the ones mentioned here you can have an idea of what are the types of facts that are missing. In this video the narrator mentions that Staph aureus can cause toxic shock syndrome in the classic situation of prolonged tampon use via the production of a toxin called TSST-1 that binds MHC II and T cell receptors which leads to shock.Sketchy represents this on their drawing as a Man wearing a Red Cape with a Lightning Bolt.On the other hand, Picmonic not only represents this very same fact as Toxic-green Shocked Tampon , but it also represents the mechanism of the toxin in its entirety with it’s own characters as a Girl wearing an MHC-complex with (2) Tutu and Tennis-balls. An example of this can be found on the very first video you encounter when beginning to study Sketchy Micro, the video for Staph aureus. Picmonic on the other hand has these toxins properly identified with two very easy-to-remember visual mnemonic characters.Sometimes Sketchy Micro will mention facts and important commonly tested mechanisms on their videos but they do not fully represent them with visual memory anchors on their drawings. Because of this, they are commonly tested in Qbanks and Boards.
Sketchy Micro on the other hand portrays it as a Landing Strip for a plane.The fact in Sketchy’s example can be easily forgotten because, with time, you won’t remember that this landing strip stands for single-stranded DNA virus, you’ll just remember that there was a landing strip in the drawing and you’ll struggle to remember what it was supposed to stand for. The Picmonic app shows it in a very literal and memorable way, as a DNA and a (1) Wand with Single-Stranded DNA ribbon. Example #1 — Trying to recall that Parvovirus is a “Single-stranded DNA virus” is easier with Picmonic.The Boards and Qbanks like to test the student’s knowledge on the characteristics of various microorganisms, like for example, knowing that Parvovirus is a single-stranded DNA virus. I’ll show you a few examples. In fact, there are characters in Sketchy drawings that to this day I still can’t remember what they stood for. Unlike Picmonic, where there is a clear character with phonetic significance behind it (which makes the concepts more memorable), Sketchy uses very ordinary things or scenarios to help you recall medical details which are easily forgotten.
As for representing a DNA virus, they use a literal DNA strand. Characters are much easier to remember, but there is no character in the Sketchy drawing for this, just a color hue.In Sketchy, Reovirus has a red color hue representing that it is an RNA virus and Human Herpes Virus 6 has a blue color hue representing that it is a DNA virus.As for Picmonic, it uses an RNA-rhino that interacts with other characters in the drawing, making it more memorable to remember when a virus is an RNA virus. In Sketchy, you’re supposed to remember the color hues of each drawing to remember which one is a DNA virus (blue) and which one is an RNA virus (red), but you can easily forget which one stands for which and forget the color of a drawing. Example #2: How Sketchy Micro portrays DNA and RNA is not as effective as how Picmonic portrays them.Knowing if a virus is a DNA or an RNA type of virus is important to remember and this is tested frequently.
By combining Picmonic’s vast library of content and the Picmonics I created, I was able to retain all the hard to remember facts I was struggling with to pass USMLE Step 1 and 2 and reach my goal of becoming a medical doctor.Recent graduate of Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) in the Dominican Republic, now applying for residency. Picmonic is research-proven to increase retention for hard-to-learn facts you’ll come across in medical school.
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