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This is right up my alley. I'll be going to med school in a few months, and so I'm looking for study materials and methods (I plan on trying Anki). I think it's
by kyro 17y ago
This is right up my alley. I'll be going to med school in a few months, and so I'm looking for study materials and methods (I plan on trying Anki). I think it's great that they're trying to make the study of medicine a bit more enjoyable than just rote memorization. Also, as someone who hopes to venture into entrepreneurship as a physician, it's really encouraging to read about such ventures.
- mclin 17y agoDo it! Anki is amazing. Unfortunately, I have yet to manage to convince anyone else to use it... I can see how it can look intimidating. It's a big commitment to have to do expired flash cards every day! OTOH, things you put into Anki you can remember for the rest of your life! I wish I had it when I was in school. There's so much I've already forgotten... Can you imagine if doctors remembered everything they ever had to memorize in med school?
- _delirium 17y ago> Can you imagine if doctors remembered everything they ever had to memorize in med school? It'd be pretty amazing! Which is why it's unfortunate that we don't have a close approximation to that with a man/machine interaction, where people do the hard-to-automate bits, and machines do the rote memorization bits. The first diagnosis expert system to beat human doctors (in an admittedly narrow domain), MYCIN, is now something like 35 years old, and yet doctors still rarely use computational assistance. Or at least, they don't officially: I know plenty of doctors who use Wikipedia in their daily work.