My technique to studying is that if you are producing something or actively engaged somehow, it helps you learn so much better. I dedicated myself to taking volumes of notes from various sources and making study sheets which I plastered all over our house (I think my roommates are glad that I am done with Step 1 too). :)
This is my freak-out picture. I tried to capture some of my inner feelings about the whole studying for boards thing. The First Aid Step 1 book is sort-of the bread and butter of board studying and I supplemented it a lot with listening to some board review audio lectures, going through cases and practices questions and some other subject based board review books. All in all I think that I probably bought/tried to use too many books, but I think it is a common mistake.
The outside of my bedroom door and my bedroom walls were covered with study sheets. It is nice because you can review material when you are just brushing your hair or whatever.
Some more pictures of my bedroom wall.
After available wall space in my bedroom was expended I moved the the bathroom (with my roommates' permission, of course). Andrea said she enjoyed reviewing material while brushing her teeth, etc, but I think she may have just been saying that to be nice.
The pen/highlighter graveyard. This isn't even all of the pens and highlighters I used while studying for Step 1. I decided to start saving the pens/highlighters about a week and a half into my studying.
Now you can get the picture of how messy my room was while I was studying. I had a pile of books and note-taking supplies that I moved around with me as I studied in various locations throughout the house. good times. Now I am off doing my clinical rotations.
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