#StudyHealers
Wrapping up midterms season, the Student Success Center and Library staff shared secrets to help fellow Baptist healers in their study journeys. Below, they share these tips.
Lilly Wientjes provides best practices for time and stress management that a student can utilize. Molly Antoine provides insight by giving three non-traditional library resources that can help students.
Academic Success Coach, Lilly Wientjes Advice:
- Plan/schedule when you are going to study (and when to take breaks)
- Students should break it up into chunks to allow their brains to process the information. There's something called the Pomodoro Technique which is all about breaking your work/study schedule into sections of 25 minutes to focus on a task, followed by a 5 minute break. After 4 of these pomodoro sessions, you take a longer break, 15-30 minutes. The goal is to eliminate distractions and increase productivity.
- Know your times of high productivity
- If a student knows they get the most done and have more energy in the morning (or after a nap), they should take that into consideration when they are scheduling and following through with their study sessions
- This also plays a role in making sure the student doesn't push through fatigue and worsening their condition.
- Try to make connections and engage with the information (this is as individual to the student as their personality is)
- Some students do well with visuals and examples, and some might do better by using mnemonic devices for the material and making comparisons to another topic (related or not).
Library Supervisor, Molly Antoine Advice:
- SMART Imagebase provides students with access to 24,000 medical illustrations, 1,200 medical animations, 250 monographs & interactives, 43 human body lesson plans, and printable coloring book pages - this is an excellent resource for students enrolled in Pathophysiology.
- EndNote is a bibliographic management tool that enables students and faculty members to generate citations in a specific format, organize references into folders, create bibliographies, and insert in-text citations. Additionally, EndNote users can store, read, and annotate full-text PDF documents, as well as share references with classmates. EndNote provides access to over 6,000 bibliographic styles including the 6th edition of APA (American Psychological Association) style, the 11th edition of AMA (American Medical Association) style, and the 8th edition of MLA (Modern Language Association) style.
- Visible Body- Anatomy & Physiology provides students and faculty members with access to over 150 animations, approximately 500 3-D model sets with directed dissections, and 600+ online quiz questions. Content coverage includes cells and tissues, the skeletal system and joints, the nervous system, lymphatic system, respiratory system, circulatory system and more. Students have the option to virtually rotate and dissect images, identify various structures and body parts, watch videos, and take practice quizzes - this is the library's suggested resource for students enrolled in Anatomy & Physiology I & II.
All of the library's online databases can be accessed by logging into MyCampus, selecting the Learning Resources/Library tab, and clicking on the All Databases button. I've also posted pre-recorded library training videos on several resources available to all students from this page: https://baptistu.libguides.com/tutorials. Another library resource that students might be interested in is the ability to reserve a quiet space to study or take remote proctor exams on campus. The library provides access to individual and group study rooms and students are welcome to reserve our study spaces for two-hour increments. Students can call the information desk (901-572-2677) or visit https://baptistu.libguides.com/StudyRooms to reserve a room in advance.