Community health is often seen as a subject that involves a lot of cramming. And being a student who just can’t remember the information via cramming, I used to escape from this subject.
But escaping wasn’t the solution, so this one trick helped me and made concepts like research methodology, sampling, and surveying procedures easy to understand and remember for a long time.
Instead of just passive reading and memorizing steps, I applied the trick of turning it into a story and me being the narrator of that story. I visualized myself as a researcher or survey conductor. And, then logically think: What will I do first if I have to conduct research? How will I choose a sample? How will I start, proceed, and end to conduct a survey?
This trick of turning everything into a story with a series of steps worked for me successfully and helped me remember each step in sequence and detail.
Also, via this approach, I understood adding meaning or logic to the subject helps immensely rather than just meaninglessly cramming the topic. And every topic, when seen from the lens of the real world and its significance in it, you understand it more than just a topic.
Do share a trick in comments below that helped you tackle a difficult topic with an easy approach.
MBH/PS