I'm a 2nd year medical student and just bought the PR tapes. I have almost finished the 6th tape and have tried using the things I've learned in preparing and studying for the exams I have this week (finals), and I am hoping to benefit from PR in preparing for the national board exams the first week of June.
So far, however, I'm not finding the activation techniques to be very useful for working with powerpoint slides and handouts from my professors, and I'm concerned with how well I will be able to apply all of this to the board prep books that I need to review in the next few weeks.
I have to add that I am not the best student in this arena and was 7th from the bottom in a class of around 135 students the last I checked. My recall of the materials I have been deluged with is atrocious, prompting my to visit our learning resources specialist. Unfortunately, I (being a psychology major) knew more about learning and memory than he did, so I was referred to a nearby educational psychologist for testing. They found out that though I am in the highest levels in most of the intelligence test, I am only average to above average in the areas directly responsible for processing information into useable memory.
To make an already long story a little short, I have a learning disability in the one area I need most to prepare for these examinations coming up. For this reason I forked out the money to get this program hoping that it would be what I need to assimilate two very full years' worth of medical school information in a very short time with maximal recall. Medical board exams are very oriented toward buzzwords and minutia, two things I'm not especially good at recalling, much like my inability to recall names. Anyhow, I am despirate, since I have to pass these exams in order to go onto my third year, where the real learning (hands-on clinical stuff) happens. I would especially appreciate hearing from Paul, Dana or Pete or people who have gone through this very thing, since medical school really doesn't compare to anything else. Thanks.
