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From: [email protected] (Felix the Cat)
Subject: Re: med school

John Carey ([email protected]) wrote:
: Actually I am entering vet school next year, but the question is 
: relevant for med students too.

: Memorizing large amounts has never been my strong point academically.
: Since this is a major portion of medical education -- anatomy, 
: histology, pathology, pharmacology, are for the most part mass 
: memorization -- I am a little concerned.  As I am sure most 
: med students are.

: Can anyone suggest techniques for this type of memorization?  I 
: have had reasonable success with nemonics and memory tricks like
: thinking up little stories to associate unrelated things.  But I have
: never applied them to large amounts of "data".

: Has anyone had luck with any particular books, memory systems, or
: cheap software?   

: Can you suggest any helpful organizational techniques?  Being an
: older student who returned to school this year, organization (another
: one of my weak points) has been a major help to my success.

: Please no griping about how all you have to do is "learn" the material
: conceptually.  I have no problem with that, it is one of my strong 
: points.  But you can't get around the fact that much of medicine is
: rote memorization.  

: Thanks for your help.
The only suggestion i can think of off the top of my head is get a large
supply of index cards and memorize small amounts of info at a time, making
flash cards and quesitons. Everytime i get a question wrong I always
manage to get the damn thing right the next time 

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