Academic Support

•  Improve your memory! Here are some helpful strategies: http://www.thememorypage.net/tut.htm
• iPod Anatomy! Store facts about anatomy on your iPod, check it out: http://compubio.medsch.ucla.edu/iNatomy/
• FYI: For those who have an iPhone you can download "APS", this will allow you to download helpful notes and study guides. "The best one that is out there is the "Netters Anatomy" application. It's just like having the flashcards but on your phone!" -Student
• This site has it all! From preparing for exams to effectively studying with others: http://www.studygs.net/index.htm
• Find out how you learn by taking this test: http://http://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/
• Medical Dictionaries: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ and http://www.webmd.com/
• Increase your reading speed, take the test: http://www.readingsoft.com

Study Tools

• Draw It to Know It- is the ideal resource for the flipped classroom: learn from the best tutorials and rapid-fire quiz questions for any basic science or pre-clinical medicine education!

  • Please use the following steps to activate your account.

  • Please go to https://www.drawittoknowit.com/login
  • Register for access
  • Please use your @scuhs.edu domain name to register
  • Please search for the institution name
  • Once registered, you will need to acknowledge the confirmation email from your scuhs.edu account; please check your spam/junk email folder for confirmation email
• Google calendar, Google Drive, Google Hangouts (study group)
• Cold Turkey – Distraction Blocker
• Habitica – Habit Tracker
• Wunderlist – Task Manager
• Tomighty – Pomodoro Timer
• Dropbox – File Syncing
• Trello – Project Management
• Beeminder – Goal Accountability
• FM – Music for Focusing
• Anki – Spaced Repetition App
• Audible – Digital Audiobooks
• Khan Academy – offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard and covers science subjects. https://www.khanacademy.org/
• Evernote – Note Manager
• Notability – Note Taking and Annotation App http://gingerlabs.com/
• Byword – Writing App
• Quizlet – Learning tool with electronic flashcards, games quizlet.com
• Picmonic – Interactive audiovisual mnemonics picmonic.com