Sketchy Biology

[Lane Frisch]

Ouruser-friendly platform and scientifically proven applied learning methodologies and approaches make both short-term test prep and long-term knowledge retention more fun, more effective, and more engaging.

Memorization and test prep can be tricky. So, in thinking about the best way to prepare students for the MCAT exam, we considered not just what students would need to know for the exam (content) or how to master the exam format (strategy), but also what new and innovative ways to learn and study we could implement.

In 2013, four medical students began creating sketched stories to help them memorize complicated viruses. Since then, Sketchy has applied the same visual learning techniques to a variety of subjects, and become a premiere learning destination for students around the world.

Our program is research-backed and evidence-based, combining new and old learning techniques like the Method of Loci and elaborative encoding. Then, we apply them in innovative new ways to produce something completely revolutionary (not to mention highly effective).

In other words, our tests help prep students for taking the MCAT and test knowledge after studying. Our quizzes help students reflect on course content while learning, reinforcing and solidifying material and promoting a firmer knowledge foundation.

The above terms are valid for purchases in April 2023 or later. If you purchased MCAT Prep Essentials before April 2023, your eligibility terms may be different. Contact our customer support team (at guara...@sketchy.com) for more details.

The Sketchy MCAT Score Guarantee is subject to our standard Terms of Use, which are available here: Sketchy reserves the right to make the final decision on all matters related to the Sketchy MCAT Score Guarantee and to interpret and apply our Terms of Use as we see fit. By accepting this offer, you agree to be bound by our Terms of Use and to the final say of the company. Sketchy is not affiliated with or endorsed by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC).

Sometimes taking notes or adding facts can help increase learning retention. With Picmonic, students can customize their content and add their own information and characters, notes, images, videos and more to satisfy their personal learning needs.

Bottom line: You can create your own Picmonics using the simple drag and drop authoring tools, then share your creations with friends or the world! And on that note, anything shared publicly is also available to you too! Meaning thousands of additional topics covered in the Picmonic for Medicine library.

Picmonic is research-proven and covers a large variety of topics from medical, nursing, pharmacology, biology, pre-chemistry, and tons more. It features a mobile app on Android and Apple so students can learn on the go, and for medical students, a Google Chrome extension. Students who use Picmonic can also tap into their creative side to make their own memorable mnemonics.

Picmonic lessons are short yet concise to cover topics while focusing on active recall and retention. Picmonic also has spaced repetition with daily quizzes, prerecorded webinars, customizable learning playlists, and community contributions!

Sketchy and Picmonic can both be helpful for the USMLE Step 1. While both utilize mnemonics, Picmonic creates opportunities for quicker, research-proven preparation for big exams like the USMLE Step 1. When in doubt, check out why Med students use Picmonic to crush their exam scores.

In 55 B.C., Greek philosopher Cicero recounts the tale of the poet Simonides, who was invited to perform at a banquet. Briefly called away during his recitation, Simonides returns to find that the roof of the venue has caved in and crushed the attendees beyond recognition.

In 2013, they launched Sketchy, which has since acquired 30,000 yearly subscribers. Medical school instructors have reached out to collaborate on developing new teaching curriculum. In 2019, Siddiqui was listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, which honors innovative young business leaders across the globe.

He arrived at USC unsure of his major, but after excelling in biology classes, he enrolled in biological sciences with the intent of later enrolling in medical school. He rounded this out with entrepreneurship classes at the USC Marshall School of Business.

In their new video, instead of asking viewers to build a memory palace themselves, as other mnemonics techniques might, Siddiqui and the team built the palace for the viewer layer by layer, with colors and catchy visual scenes such as babies floating in space. Viruses, drug treatments or diseases appear again and again along the way, with the same visual ques to hammer home the information.

Covers the spectrum of neurology from the basics to specialty-specific content. Includes a library of neurology references and a multimedia library of videos on neurologic examinations and EEG monitoring.

Covers journal articles on allied and alternative health. Its thesaurus was produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library and contains over 2,500 terms based on MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).

Contains scholarly book titles published by the American Psychological Association (APA) from 1953-present, approximately 50 classic books in psychology dating from the early 19th century, and the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

A teaching resource consisting of anatomy and system specific videos. It showcases a broad spectrum of ages and cultural backgrounds and includes information on health history, documentation and patient/practitioner interactions.

A genome and metabolic pathway web portal to visualize metabolomics data on individual pathway diagrams and on the organism-specific metabolic map diagrams that are available for every BioCyc organism.

Provides bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals in all related disciplines. For researchers in healthcare, this database may be useful in identifying quality improvement literature.

Provides information to assist health care providers in recognizing the physical signs of child abuse including examination techniques, evidence-based research and literature reviews, case studies and the ability to add cases.

Part of the Child Abuse Atlas, this accredited e-learning module will enable learners to better recognize, respond to, and treat adolescent victims of sex trafficking. It was developed by Child Abuse Pediatricians and Emergency Physicians in cooperation with the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC).

A comprehensive source of full-text nursing & allied health journals. It also provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheet and quick lesson disease overviews, and continuing education modules.

Explores how the human body develops from a single-cell fertilized egg to the complex set of organ systems seen in the newborn. Clinical cases of congenital malformations or syndromes are used to introduce and highlight key sequences in normal development.

Provides answers to clinical questions that draws from a collection of clinical resources covering most medical and surgical specialty. Includes journals, books, practice guidelines, patient education, drug information and MEDLINE citations and abstracts from PubMed.

Provides easy access to information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions. Maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Brings together current and classic resources in the field and provides services and utilities to enhance research, collaboration and teaching. Only abstracts are available for non-MIT affliated journals.

Demonstrates key physician/patient communication skills via video encounters with standardized patients to help learners develop sensitivity to differing communication styles and difficult situations. Register with your Yale email address.

A curated, open data repository for finding, publishing, and preserving research data. Yale-affiliated researchers can deposit up to 300GB of data per project. More information: resear...@yale.edu.

A database of over 48,000 reactions and approximately 3,500 of the most frequently consulted reagents. After connection,you will need to install two plugins to utilize the structure drawing capability.

Collection of articles in the fields of biochemistry and physiology, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, neuroscience, microbiology and virology, plant science, structural biology, science and society.

Offers information in multiple languages from a wide range of countries on topics such as communicable diseases, tropical diseases, parasitology, human nutrition, public health, and medicinal and poisonous plants.

Information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science and helps users identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.

Includes articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps, and other related materials across a broad set of subjects reflecting the influence of science, technology, and medicine on society and culture throughout time.

A service of the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) at the National Library of Medicine that provides a range of publications to provide health information and support healthcare decision-making.

A compilation of performance statistics and trends extrapolated from counts of articles published in scholarly journals and the citations to those articles that are derived from journals indexed in Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index only) over a 10-year period.

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