Note taking skills

Note taking skills

1. Integration, not transcription2. Organizing (titles, subtitles)3. Use of abbreviations4. Notation of principle mesage and main ideas

Note taking skills

Step 1: determine the principal ideaStep 2: determination od structure and offsets –titles, subtitles, questionsStep 3: text analysis and information selection, discarding all unnecessary materialsStep 4: distribution of materials into offsetsStep 5: emphasing trigger-information ( by picture, drawing, illustration od color)

Steps 1 i 2: Structuring

Outline the notes structureSelect the material to be learned Compose the frame in which the marerial should be accomodated

Important information should be written on the left side, details on the right

Malaria deninition

Significance

Causative agent

Disease vectorAnopheles Gambiae

Tropic/sub tropic contagious diseaseIncidence: 350-500 millions yearlyPlasmodium falciparum; P. malariae; P. ovale; P. vivax; P. knowles

Plasmodium falciparum

Steps 1 & 2: Strukturing

Before we start phase 3, titles, subtitles and all main ideas should be determined

Step 3: Information selection

1. Browsing the entire text2. Identify what is important3. Find out the prominent parts of material4. Find out the titles, subtitles, ideas5. Find out the auxiliary visual materials (maps,

tables, graphs, illustrations and pictures) 6. Focus on summary and questions

Step 4: Branching the information

Step 4: Branching of information

Step 5: Emphasizing

“Triggering” information one should emphasize by drawing, picture pr callor

Essence of good notes: summarizing

1. Information synthesis, not transcription2. Interpretation of information in one

personal, individual lingo 3. Notes should be clear, understandable,

good-looking4. Supported by good examples and by5. Multimedia

Abbreviations & Symbols

Good notes: Abbreviations

“Robert Koch (1843.-1910.) is German bacteriologist, founding-father of bacteriology as a scientific discipline. He discovered in 1876 anthrax bacilli, and in 1882 tuberculosis bacilli.”

Good notes: Abbreviations

“Koch, 19 cent., bact., antrax, tbc.”

Good notes: Hierarchy

All facts and ideas, which are noted, do not have same importance and value

Good notes: Format

Mathematics

1. Introductory information2. The statement in form of mathematic law, axiom or theoreme3. Explanatory examples4. Illustrating exersises, which should be solved.

Good notes: Format

Medicine1. Ethiology2. Pathoanatomy3. Pathophysiology4. Clinical picture (with subdivision on general and

specific symptoms, signs and syndorome)5. Diagnostic procedures6. Complications7. Prognosis8. Therapeutic options

Creativity

Use with notes pictures drawings, arrows, mathematical symbols, different colors, different forts and size of letters, geomelry symbols, etc.