If you read their manual, and if you follow what they say, you will study better, study faster, recall more efficiently and learn more than you ever thought possible. I know. I was one of the many who saw a dramatic change. I found this course to be a turning point in my medical education and its techniques still serve me today in my professional career. To Jean and Kathy, I give my unending thanks. You saved me!

There are not words to express my appreciation. You gave me the tools I needed to study. As a matter of fact, I showed one of my classmates the chart I made for one of the topics and she created the same to study. You’re awesome! Thank you a million times.

This book should be mandatory reading for anyone contemplating a professional health education curriculum…. I used this study system to survive medical school…. Even after residency, I have continued to refer back to the charts I made. I was excited to hear that Jean and Kathleen were publishing their study plan so that even more students could benefit from their guidance. The workbook format encourages the reader not only to read the book … but also empowers the student to take personal control of their study system.

I would highly recommend this workbook for any beginning nursing major. It is an excellent document that addresses all the essential study skills nursing students need to know in order to be successful in their nursing education. This is excellent! You have addressed all of the essential study skills nursing students need to be successful. The workbook format, to be used over several weeks, allows the students to interact with the content. The approach is holistic in that you recognize the impact every dimension of their lives will have on the nursing education process. Thank you for writing this book. It will be extremely useful for all nursing majors and educators. It’s been my privilege to be a reviewer. Thank you.

Study Without Stress…is an excellent book for students who need to acquire, assimilate and put to use a large body of knowledge in a relatively short period of time…. By using this system in medical school, I greatly improved my exam scores. But now I find that I have better retention of the knowledge that I utilize daily in my patient care. These techniques have helped me become more efficient with my studies (which don’t end with the completion of school!) with better time management. “Also they have given me much better recall by helping me structure the information in my mind for better access…. By using this approach I was able to go from a struggling medical student to a knowledgeable resident to a confident fellow. This system has helped me greatly in achieving my goals.

My study habits have changed greatly. I now realize I can accomplish a lot by using my time wisely – concentrating on the task at hand and reading in a much smarter and faster fashion.

The information will stay with me forever – even after nursing school. This is really, really helpful for everyone.

The book is very well organized, gives a practical assessment of the problems and feedback on each tool. It gives a lot of examples for each case and is written in easy-to-read language. The pictorial illustrations are very helpful. The summary at the end of each chapter captures the key elements of that chapter is an easy to review manner. Reports of students’ feedback on tested techniques and skills say a lot to other students. This book is an essential tool for incoming nursing students.

This is a book that every student thinking about nursing should read, and the earlier, the better. While it will certainly help students already in clinical nursing courses, going in prepared by using this book and trying out the skills during their prerequisite work will empower those students and give them a distinct advantage in their nursing courses!

The rigors of medical school demand a level of academic performance that is unique in both volume and level of focus required. Med school is tough enough. Don’t deny yourself a tool to both increase your performance and help you effectively manage your life. Having expended so much effort to get to medical school, don’t sell yourself short once you have arrived: Get and use this book right now!

Students have consistently told the authors that if they had learned and used the Study Without Stress method during their pre-professional preparation they would have had an easier time and earned much better grades. Everyone who has read this book has remarked, ‘I wish I had seen this book earlier; how can I get a copy?’

As achievement in higher education becomes increasingly more stressful, students need new skills to enable them to cope. This book can enable any student in the medical sciences to master study skills and stress management techniques that will ease their transition through the maze of material and courses to graduation. This is THE how-to guide to successful study.

I wanted to let you know that I used the charting techniques I learned in Study Without Stress a lot during our toughest semester…and raised my class ranking forty spots!!! It’s especially useful for Pharm, Micro and Path.

This book is a must for the professional student, but all students can benefit from this book… I found the material well organized and easy to read and implement. This book should be mandatory the first year of professional school.

This guide is easy to follow and user-friendly with engaging exercises. The self-tests at the beginning of the chapter, as well as the feedback that follows each assessment, help in applying the strategies provided. The time management and organizational skills the students learn from this experience will assist them in becoming life-long learners and will be utilized in their every day nursing careers. I also recommend this guide for pre-nursing students during their prerequisite courses.

Thank you so much for everything that you’ve done for us this semester! It really did help a lot. I ended up with 2 A’s and 2 B’s this semester, and the B’s that I had were really high B’s too! I know that I would not have been able to do it if wasn’t for your awesome study strategies. I just wanted to let you know how appreciative I am for the time you took … and that I really did succeed with your tips. Thank you again!