Passive vs active learning - Food for thought

One thing to note is that when you make a quiz in medical school or any school for that matter, you are obligated to commit to an answer before you can move on to the next question. When you make flash cards, you can flip the card over if the answer does not come to mind quite that quickly. Which experience are you more likely to remember when you are sitting in the exam room? If you can be very active in using flash cards, that that is awesome, but there are those like me, who will flip the card over if we do not know the answer. It is those students who are like me that I highly recommend that they find a more active way of consolidating the huge volume of material that is presented to them in medical school! Good luck with your studies!!