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What can you learn about learning from Harvard med students?

Eric Barker
March 11, 2012

Spacing out learning over time leads to drastically improved retention.

Via Annie Murphy Paul at Time:

In more than two dozen studies published over the past five years, he has demonstrated that spaced repetition works, increasing knowledge retention by up to 50 percent. And Kerfootâs method is easily adapted by anyone who needs to learn and remember, not just those pursuing MDs.

And there’s an easy way to implement this technique:

How can you learn like one of Kerfootâs Harvard Medical School residents? Most email programs allow you to schedule the sending of messages, making it easy to create a spaced-repetition course for yourself. Divide up what you need to knowâthe text of a speech, the material on an examâinto smaller units, no more than a few sentences long. Then put the information into emails scheduled to be sent to yourself at weekly intervals. To achieve the greatest memory-strengthening effect, mix up old and new material, and put the information in the form of a question to which youâll have to recall the answer. Youâll find that your email is making you smarterâno all-nighters necessary.

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Title What can you learn about learning from Harvard med students?
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Date March 11, 2012 6:39 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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