study group part I

Almost everyone will be busy forming a new study group once semester start. everyone wants to be in a study group but NO one wants to the leader =) ... it is not easy to handle 4-5 different person in a group, everyone have their own attitude & their very own way of thinking. it was even harder to ensure the group dynamic. 

I have been in a study group since 2nd yr but I was serious with it started when I was in 3rd year. Since I have been the leader for my study group for 2 years, I like to share with all of you especially UKM medical student how I manage my study group

First, find a number of people that interested to be in your study group. MAKESURE you guys are in the same posting/module. it can be either all are same gender/race/age or different gender/race/age. When I was 3rd yr, my group consist of 8 person then 4th year 5 person. however, we decided that we want it to be in the same gender =) I guess we are comfortable with it. The most appropriate number is maybe 4-5 person in a group (less chatting :p)

Then, find your study guide, since you going to get it late from the academic department, go find your seniors study guide (thats how i usualy do it), get the topic list for all module/posting. IF you cant get the topic list e.g, psychiatric - go find SST (notes that been done by our senior). IF you like then you can buy the SST but for me just BORROW from senior or friends that already bought the book. 

example of SST

Make your topic list. Start to list all the topic. I list the topic like the picture below. I make 3 column. 

• 1st column - bil of the topic 
• 2nd column - topic 
• 3rd column - name of person that in charge to present the respective topic 

I usually type all the list then distribute them in hardcopy plus softcopy in case they lost the list.

eg: study group

Decide how many times per week you want to do study group and how many TOPIC per night. This is a very important step. If you didnt calculate and decide earlier you will drag you study group up until the last week of posting which was not a good thing to do. what you nid to do is when you have the list of topic, calculate how many do you have. E.g, you have 44 topic for a particular posting namely posting X. Every posting usually 8 weeks. Try to finish your study group b4 8th week usually by 6 or 7th week. then let say you want to have 3 days per week of study group. Now lets do the math:

3 days per week x 6 week (IF you want to finish in 6 week time) = 18 study group session 

44 (total topic) divide by 18 = around 2 or 3 topic per night 

so MAKESURE your study group present MINIMUM of 2-3 topic per night for 3 days per week for 6 weeks . Insya-Allah you will finish your study group in a very efficient way =) 

to be continued ...........

its getting late now , i need to sleep yawnn... Insya-allah i will update regarding study group again