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 Memorizing Medicine

The aim of this book is two-fold: firstly, to inject an air of amusement and refreshing jollity into one’s academic studies; secondly, to highlight an important point about how (rather than what) we should be studying.

With hope, the light-hearted aspect of the book will be immediately appreciated – punchy and practical mnemonics, entertaining pictures, sprinklings of humour and a general feeling of novelty and variety –at least relative to the average medical textbook. At the same time, weighty, wearisome text has been dispensed with as far as possible, to enable the salient points of each subject to stand out.

However, the serious side of the book begins with the question, ‘What does it take to memorize medicine?’ A large part of what it takes to be a good doctor undoubtedly depends on the skill of being able to recall large quantities of information. Hence the training of doctors should not merely involve exposing students to knowledge in a passive manner, but should actively incorporate methods that engender efficient memorization. Medical textbooks should not simply be catalogues of facts, or even distillers of information, but should potentiate factual recall at a later date.

There are three reasons why a book such as this needs to be written, and they all seem to grow increasingly more compelling as each year goes by:

• The amount of medical knowledge increases exponentially with time.
• Technological advances, e.g. the internet, expose us to an increasing amount of data despite our brains being fixed in the rate at which we can ‘input’ it.
•  Neuropsychological advances increasingly inform us on the nature of memory. A sharp mind is cultivated not so much by ‘sheer hard work’ or ‘burning the midnight oil’ instead of adopting optimal learning strategies.

The manner in which we are exposed to knowledge assumes that our brains are built in a simple, sequential fashion, like home computers: read a new fact, listen to a lecture – and this information gets stored as easily as one’s own name. Yet, it is clear from each of our own experiences that human memory does not work this way. Facts are most efficiently memorized as visual images, chunks, acronyms, rhymes, webs, etc. and as we update our knowledge, we must first recall our pre-existing schema of the topic, and then peg the new data onto this internal structure.

Enlightened with basic psychological truths about what it takes to memorize efficiently, this book aims to ‘rewrite’ the classical medical textbook by taking the same information as before but setting it out in an original style that lends itself to effective learning. We hope it succeeds in leaving an imprint in your mind while at the same time not taking itself too seriously.

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