How Do you Get Through Studying Boring Material in Medical School?

How do you get through studying boring material in medical school?
There must be some topics which are really boring and tedious. How do you slog your way through them?

This question was originally posted on Quora.com, and it was answered by:

Corina Calota, finished medical school

In my 1st and 2nd years lots of subjects seemed boring and cumbersome to me. Now I'm in the 6th and although nothing medical seems tedious to me anymore, I wish I had the time to go deeper on the topics I study instead of trying to read everything in a short period of time.
By now what I do is read as fast as I can and try to make out what the text has to say that is important and useful. Then I try to think in what contexts that would prove useful.

The sources also matter greatly, and you could easily find a multitude of material about a given subject on the internet. If you find a particular subject bores you, read it from somewhere else.
I'm picky about my sources, so if I don't like my textbook I try to find a better place where I could learn what I need. Sometimes I find an university website where a teacher went out of his way to explain that subject keeping students in mind.

Most of the time my learning is done from lots of different places. For example, if I have to learn about Crohn disease, I read one or two relevant clinical cases about it to get the picture of how a typical patient with Crohn looks like. Then I google images with the different clinical signs and radiological and histological aspects of Crohn's. I might also search for comparative descriptions of Crohn and hemorrhagic colitis, since the two are similar and easy to confuse. Finally, I read my textbook to fill in the blanks and the info will make sense to me by this time because I've seen what it pertains to.

Thick heavy textbooks are becoming a bit anachronic in the age of the internet, I came to believe.
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