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You can't really get around the drilling. Medicine is fundamentally different than programming in this regard. You have to know the names, not just the concepts

You can't really get around the drilling. Medicine is fundamentally different than programming in this regard. You have to know the names, not just the concepts, and there are a TON of names. There IS technology that does help with memorization. Many, many students use Anki for spaced repetition. Most subscription study sources offer some kind of spaced rep (USMLERx Flash Facts, Firecracker, etc). There is also Sketchy and Picmonics for pictorial memorization of microbes and drugs.

BucketSort 8y ago
You can't get around the drilling in anything, but the point is that students do an OBSCENE amount of it, and forget most of it. Also, as other's have said, most material is totally irrelevant to the actual practice of medicine and will be forgotten quickly. EX: You don't need to know organic chemistry to be anything but a medical researcher (which should be a distinct profession), yet the system falsely increases the number of requirements to keep people in school longer and maintain control. It's a corrupt system In my eyes, and people fall for this bullshit that it's so difficult to be a practicing doctor... it only is when you add extraneous stuff that is not necessary in the practice of medicine. Most doctors aren't researchers. You don't need that much education to practice medicine and fit the role of what people need when they seek a doctor. It has to change, because the current state of affairs is out of control. People are losing all that they have to the raping of the medical industry.