I realize that all med schools are different, but is the key to doing well in medical school memorization? A lot of problem solving? A combination of both? Thanks!
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do lots of problems, and do them as soon as you've looked at all the relevant material first.
Assessing what material is important in your first pass through material is crucial, as is knowing what information must be memorized and what material can be inferred fom general principles.
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First year so far, the emphasis has been on memorization. The problems will sometimes ask you to apply the concepts you learn, but you still have to memorize a lot of concepts, and you still have to memorize a crapload of stuff. There's no way getting around it.
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Keys to success in medical school...
M1: time management
M2: memorization skills + fear management
M3: punctuality + general likeability + tolerance for bull****
M4: schmoozing
You will notice that at no point do "problem-solving" or "clinical reasoning" or "logic" appear on the list.
M1: time management
M2: memorization skills + fear management
M3: punctuality + general likeability + tolerance for bull****
M4: schmoozing
You will notice that at no point do "problem-solving" or "clinical reasoning" or "logic" appear on the list.
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In talking to many of my colleagues and from my own personal, pre-clinical experience, this is pretty much accurate.
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I mostly agree, if by "success" you mean passing and likely being in the top half of your class. "Gunners" can't rely only on memorization - at some point, to break into the top few percent of your class, you're going to need good logic skills. Usually not because the question necessarily requires logic, but because even gunners can't memorize and know everything, and when you see a question you don't know the answer to right away logic is what will help get you home.
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Logic yes, definitely, because you'll never have everything down. To a point, distinguishing what they might test on is important, but at my school they always throw in some really random detail & fact questions. Practice questions don't work for my school because my school doesn't teach to the boards at alllllllllll. Really, being able to learn quickly and having good time management are the two most important things.
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lol i feel u mang.....definitely memorization...like crazy.
feel this sequence....
prophylaxis for eclampsia...this is our routine
14grams loading dose of magnesium sulphate...given as 4g IV slowly over 5 minutes ( 20mls of 20 % mgso4) and 5g ( 10mls of 50% mgso4) IM in each buttock.
maintenance dose
5g of mgso4 in each alternate buttock.
at least six cycles...and continue prophylaxis till after 48hrs post partum...
in case of mg toxicity
give 10mls of 10% calcium gluconate
what is the logic in this...the only sense all this is that magnesium occupies the calcium receptor site at the neuromuscular jxn...so to reverse the toxicity, you knock the mg off with calcium...
MEDICINE... I STILL LOVE IT.
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What I've noticed from my first block of tests, especially for Patient Diagnosis, is that I had to memorize a tremendous amount of information in order to answer novel questions on the test. Anatomy and Histo were more regurgitation tests, but some tests, ask tertiary questions expecting you to have memorized the facts. But its definietely alot of memorization.
