Effective Note-taking and the Art of Lecture Summaries

Many successful students in medical and veterinary school credit their success with knowing how to take notes and summarize extremely dense lectures into much shorter and manageable summaries, which capture the essential learning objectives. The average student is tempted to write everything presented by their professors, which often results in missing important clinical correlations and other clinically relevant information which often appears on the test. We will provide you some important note-taking tips and summary methods which are most appropriate for your lectures and for specific courses/disciplines.