Amount of info

[TheDBird90]

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Just wondering, why is there too much information to learn it all (in the preclinical years)? Do they present several PhDs worth of info in two years? Someone said they teach you practically everything there is to know about a field (e.g., gross anatomy), but is it really that difficult? Someone mentioned professors could have spread anatomy over three years... don't most schools teach it in a year or less? Anyway, I though it's possible to get 100s on exams.

 

[Hospitalized]

1.) That's why there's specialties and sub-specialties, medicine is a vast field.

2.) No.

3.) They teach you everything you need to know; no it's not difficult, just a lot of information.

4.) Yes, most schools teach it in a year or less. Occasionally schools will integrate anatomy throughout the cirriculum over the first 2 years.

5.) Yes, you can get 100s on exams.

 

[ciestar]

Ive gotten 100s on multiple exams. On the flipside, I've failed multiple exams.

What makes it difficult is volume, not so much content. Gross anatomy being a prime example. Learning entire head and neck in 3 weeks is daunting but totally doable as long as you keep up with it all.

 

[TheDBird90]

1.) That's why there's specialties and sub-specialties, medicine is a vast field.

2.) No.

3.) They teach you everything you need to know; no it's not difficult, just a lot of information.

4.) Yes, most schools teach it in a year or less. Occasionally schools will integrate anatomy throughout the cirriculum over the first 2 years.

5.) Yes, you can get 100s on exams.

I'm sorry, I guess I should have clarified. I'm just considering the preclinical years, not anything else. Doctor Strange's quote from the thread, "Prestudying using material from upperclassmen attending school that accepted you?" illustrates what I'm wondering about: "Believe it or not, the majority of pre-clinical years is studying hard and data dumping after the exam. There's simply too much information to learn it all effectively and even having notes and slides from your specific school is going to be useless." As another example, NurWollen said, "There is so much to know, you literally cannot know it all, so to survive in med school you have to focus your efforts on the highest-yield information" That's what I'm confused about. It just seems like no matter how much you learn, it's never enough. How is that possible?