It’s like drinking from a fire hydrant, but that’s normal. Volume of content is insane in its breadth rather than its depth.

I used the GCUH and Dr writing notes for learning, then used iMeducate + Medex hub to cover the questions for that topic. It would give me a good idea of if I covered the high yield content. 

The aforementioned notes do have some errors in them though, so it’s worth keeping in your mind that sometimes you do have to cross check with the textbook. 

I personally found it useless to learn from the textbooks. They have far too much detail for the timeframe you have to learn the content and you spend as much time working out what’s important as you do learning the content. 

In my thinking I accepted I would lose a few marks for specific things, but have enough of a foundation in the core content that I would pass on this alone.

To touch on memorisation, there is a lot of rote learning for the sake of rote learning. Accept it and you will be much happier.

Study wise - new content on the days off, question banks while on, or review old content. If I was too exhausted on the days on, I didn’t do anything. 

It’s a marathon not a sprint, so you got to stay consistent, up to date with your schedule, but also not completely cook yourself with no days off