Is Sketchy Pharm Worth It

[Pricilla Igoe]

Ipersonally didn't find these types of study techniques to be helpful, but I had a lot of classmates who liked learning this way. Just not my thing. However, I think PicMonic is good because the clips are short and to the point - they're usually just a few minutes long so its easy to maintain attention and you can watch a clip anywhere quickly. Sketchy med clips were longer and so a more elaborate storyline to follow. These are decent supplements to help learning during didactic year. During clinical year, I use UpToDate through my school library to look things up more than anything and of course PANCE review books.

In my experience, micro wasn't nearly as detail oriented in PA school as it was in Med school. I did not use those sources in PA school, did great in micro, but didn't really remember much at all. In med school, I used pathoma and sketchy, and I remember literally everything from sketchy and will remember those details for years. Many friends used picmonic too and loved it. However, those sources might be too detailed for PA school, so I wouldn't want you wasting time memorizing things you won't be tested on. In PA school, time is limited as it is. Also, I'd recommend finding the PDF versions of sketchy if you can, it's basically the picture, and a bunch of bullets points describing what each detail represents. That way, you don't have to waste time watching the video. Since I've done it both ways, (with and without those sources), I would highly recommend them for long term retention.

I have two of the three--picmonic and pathoma.

In retrospect, picmonic was ok but after using for the first round of exams or 2 I moved to pathoma and never looked back. I would buy it again in a heartbeat (and probably will as review for the PANCE). Its a great time saver and the explanations are on point.

I loved sketchy pharmacology. Some of their videos are up on youtube or you can watch a few samples on their website and see if it is for you. I also used it occasionally for micro. A bunch of us shared a login.

I haven't tried Pathoma yet but SketchyPharm has been a lifesaver for me. I can watch a video once and remember details on the medication months later just by recalling the storyline. I watched a few Picmonic videos and I feel that Sketchy is more memorable in general.

In regards to sketchy pharm, how can I start the free trial on there? I would just like to try it out before paying for it... I do see "start your free trial" on their website but every time I click it, it brings me to the checkout screen with no other choice but to pay for the whole subscription. I emailed their company but just curious if any of you have any experience with that.

Over half of physicians have a net worth of over $1 million, but medical schools do not teach future physicians how to handle business, personal finance or investing, according to a Dec. 1 report from Medscape.

4. Avoid bad investment strategies. As high-income earners, physicians do not have to take high levels of risk on the stock market. Avoid sketchy and risky investments like cryptocurrency and angel investments.

8. Find a financial planner who understands physicians, ideally an advisor who specializes in physicians. If someone hesitates to tell you about their fee structure or if it sounds like a lot, shop around and ask colleagues for recommendations.

Before proceeding to the pleasing duty of addressing the undergraduates, as a native of this province and as an old student of this school, T must say a few words on the momentous changes inaugurated with this session, the most important, perhaps, which have taken place in the history of the profession in Ontario. The splendid laboratories, which we saw opened tliis afternoon, a witness to the appreciation by the authorities of the needs of science in medicine, nmke possible the highest standards of education in the subjects upon which our Art is based. They may do more. A liberal policy, with a due regard to the truth that the greatness of a scliool lies in brains, not bricks, should build uj) a great scientific center which will bring renown to this city and to our country. The men in charge of the departments are of the right stam]). See to it that you treat them in the right way by giving skilled assistance enough to ensure that the vitality of men who could work for the world is not sapped by the routine of teaching. One regret will, I know, be in the minds of many of my younger hearers. The removal of tlie departments of anatomy and physiology from

the biological laboratory of the university breaks a connection which has had an important influence on medicine in this city. To Professor Ramsay Wright is due much of the inspiration which has made possible these fine new laboratories. For years he has encouraged in every way the cultivation of the scientific branches of medicine, and has unselfishly devoted much time to promoting the best interests of the Medical Faculty. And in passing let me pay a tribute to the ability and zeal with which Dr. A. B. Macallum has won for himself a world-wide reputation by intricate studies which have carried the name of this University to every nook and corner of the globe where the science of physiology is cultivated. How much you owe to him in connection with the new buildings I need scarcely mention to this audience.

But the other event which we celebrate is of nmch greater importance. When the money is forthcoming, it is an easy matter to Join stone to stone in a stately edifice, but it is hard to fiiul the market in which to buy the precious cement whicli can unite into an harmonious body the professors of medicine of two rival medical schools in the same city. That this Im.; been accomplished so satisfactorily is a tribute to the good sense of the leaders of the two faculties, and tells of their recognition of the needs of the profession of tlie province.

])lea.santly, even at times transecuclentally, upon anything in the science ol' tlie day,, from protoplasm to evolution; but he lacked concentration and that scientific accuracy which only comes with a long training (sometimes indeed never comes), and which is tlie ballast of the boat. But the bent of his ininil was devotional, and early swept into the Tractarian movement, he became an advanced Churchman, a good .Anglican Catholic. As he chaffmgly remarked one day to his friend, the Reverend Mr. Darling, he was like the waterman in " Pilgrim's Progi-css,'"'" rowing one way, towards Eome, but looking steadfastly in tlie other direction, towards Lambeth. His " Steps to the Altar," and his " Lectures on the Advent " attest the earnestness of his convictions; and later in life, following the example of Linacre, he took orders and became another illustration of what Cotton Mather calls the angelical conjuction of medicine with divinity. Then, how well I recall the keen love with which he would engage in metaphysical discussions, and the ardor with which he studied Kant, Hamilton, Eeed and Mill. At that day to the Bev. Prof. Bevan was entrusted the rare privilege of directing the minds of the thinlciug youths at the Provincial University into proper philosophical channels. It was rumored that the hungry sheep looked up and were not fed. I thought so at least, for certain of them, led by T. Wesley Mills, came over daily after Dr. Bovell's four o'clock lecture to reason high and long with him

Of the value of an introductory lecture I am not altogether certain. I do not remember to have derived any enduring iiciiclit from I he many that I have been called upon to hear, or from the not a few J have inflicted in my day. On the whole I am in favor of abolishing the old custom, but as this is a very

It seems a bounden duty on such an occasion to be honest and frank, so I propose to tell you the secret of life as I have seen the game played, and as I have tried to play it myself. You remember in one of the " Jungle Stories," that when Mowgli wished to be avenged on the villagers he could only get the help of Hathi and his sons by sending them the masterword. This I propose to give you in the hope, yes, the full assurance, that some of you at least will lay hold upon it to your jirofit. Though a little one, the master-word looms large in meaning. It is the open sesame to every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold. The stupid man among you it will make bright, the bright man brilliant, and the brilliant student steady. With the magic word in your heart all things are possible, and without it all study is vanity and vexation. The miracles of life are with it ; the blind see by touch, the deaf hear with eyes, the dumb speak with fingers. To the youth it brings hope, to the middle-aged confidence, to the aged repose. True balm of hurt minds, in its presence the heart of the sorrowful is lightened and consoled. It is directly resijonsible for all advances in medicine during the past twenty-five centuries. Laying hold upon it, Hippocrates made observation and science the warp and woof of oiir art. Galen so read its meaning that fifteen centuries stopped thinking, and slept until awakened by the De Fahrica of Vesalius, which is the very incarnation of the master-word. With its inspiration Harvey gave an impulse to a larger circulation than he wot of, an impulse which we

feel to-day. Hunter sounded all its heights and depths, and stands out in our history as one of the great exemplars of its virtues. With it Virchow smote the rock and the waters of progress gushed out; while in the hands of Pasteur it proved a very talisman to open to us a new heaven in medicine and a new earth in surgery. Not only has it been tlie touchstone of progress, but it is the measure of success in everyday life. Not a man before you but is beholden to it for his position here, while he who addresses you has that honor directly in consequence of having had it graven on his heart when he was as you are to-day. And the Master-Word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but frauglit with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tables of your heart, and bind it upon your forehead. But there is a serious difficulty in getting you to understand the paramount importance of tlie work-habit as part of your organization. You arc not far from the Tom Sawyer stage with its philosophy " tliat work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."

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