For Students
As a student of medicine, what is your greatest need?
Time?
Assimilating the relevant knowledge fast while avoiding information overload is everything.
Friends?
Learning with friends makes the journey lighter–do not underestimate the importance of your friends.
Meaning?
Centering your learning around solving your patient’s problems restores purpose and meaning to learning.
Publish?
Create your own case studies from your own learning and experience and submit them for publication on Scope.
Time.
Just knowing what to study requires guidance from those who preceded you.
Finding and gathering knowledge resources can take up more than half your study time.
Fill knowledge gaps and avoid restudying what you already know.
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.’ –Zig Ziglar
Watching a lecture or video, reading a textbook or a webpage; all require you to sift through a lot of what you already know, and a lot of what you don’t need to know, in order to get to the knowledge that fills your knowledge gaps. This wastes time and mental bandwidth.
Scope’s team of doctors have curated the knowledge resources you need, that fill your knowledge gaps, and built them right into Scope, a student’s EMR, turning the EMR into a living encyclopedia.
In Scope, if there is a word you do not understand, click on it and curated knowledge appears in a knowledge card within Scope. Fill the knowledge gaps; avoid repetition and information overload. Filling knowledge gaps is by far the fastest way to assimilate medical knowledge.
Friends.
Discussing cases together solidifies learning.
Traveling this challenging road with friends makes the miles fly by.
Discussing a patient case takes you to the next level of understanding.
“If you want to travel fast, travel alone. If you want to travel far, travel together.” –African proverb
See an interesting patient? Turn the experience into learning for your friends by turning it into a case study and game in Scope. Share what you have learned today and they will do the same for you.
Then, at the end of each case study you ‘play’ within Scope there is an ongoing discussion. Participating in the discussion with your friends will embed in your mind what you learned, just as rounding on real patients with your team embeds learning. Dialogue pulls everyone along, enabling deeper understanding, superior retention, and a higher level of motivation.
Your friends are key to your success and fulfillment, and creating and giving to your friends is the height of success.
Meaning.
Is medicine about diseases, or people?
Your why is to help others.
If you solve someone else’s problem, you will never forget how.
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius
You are learning to care for people. Problem centered learning as play is far and away the best way to learn to care for your patients.
Keep the patient at the center of your learning. Play helps you feel the anxiety and thrill of helping a real patient (which improves knowledge retention).
Our doctors and your peers have built hundreds of case studies that play out as games in Scope; turning learning into play. Play in the context and with the nuance of the real world teaches the player the pattern recognition necessary to developing high level clinical reasoning skills (what clinical knowledge exams are testing).
Publish.
After you have learned it, teach it–we do not forget what we have taught to others.
Turn your learning into simulations in Scope and publish them to your friends.
Write a great case study and have it published on Scope for the entire medical community.
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” –Mary Shelley
Scope is a platform where you work and play, and where you create.
Have you noticed it is easier to remember what you said over what you heard others say? You also remember what you write far better than you remember what you read.
Build your learning into a case study simulation and publish it to your friends on Scope and you won’t forget it! Writing case studies speeds learning.
Think your case study is very good? If your friends agree, and give your case a high rating, submit it to EMRLD’s editorial panel. If we agree, we will publish your case for all users of Scope to play. Prestigious residency programs are looking for residents who are published.
Begin for free.
