What speciality requires a lot of memorazation ?

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What specialty requires a lot of memorazation ?

  • Pathology

    Votes: 27 24.3%

  • Dermatology

    Votes: 24 21.6%

  • Neurosurgery

    Votes: 6 5.4%

  • Nephrology

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Critial care

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Infectious Diseases

    Votes: 12 10.8%

  • Radiology

    Votes: 25 22.5%

  • Family medicine

    Votes: 7 6.3%

  • Hematology

    Votes: 2 1.8%

  • Other. (Let us know)

    Votes: 8 7.2%
  • Total voters
    111
Neurology has a staggering amount of pathology that can get super specific and rare, but luckily the specialty is very subdivided so you don't have to be responsible for all of it.

I agree with other posters any my vote goes to derm, rads, path.
 
Trauma. You're useless if you can't manufacture RVUs, which si all about memorization.


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I'm going to throw in a vote for rheumatologists. I've only met 2, but they were #1 & #2 smartest human beings I've ever been around.
 
Path requires a knowledge of anatomic pathology, which is the histology and histopathology of every neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease that effects each and every organ system. You also learn laboratory medicine, which includrs the physics, biochemistry, hematology and immunology behind running the lab. Within a single day, we'll get calls from hematologists, dermatologists and rheumatologists all asking for interpreation of lab results or how to correlate a finding clinically. We're also expected to teach ophthamologists ocular pathology and dermatologists dermatopathology during their residencies. One reason I think people end up doing multiple fellowships is simply because you must hyperspecialize simply to be competant with how fast the field is revolutionizing, especially with the advent of molecular diagnostics impacting cancer biology.
 
Rads is all memorization. Most residents say they read 1-2 hours per day, minimum, on top of "work." Also keep in mind that radiology is like learning a new language from scratch and that medical school curriculums barely touch upon the topic.
 
Light at end of tunnel said:
Rads is all memorization. Most residents say they read 1-2 hours per day, minimum, on top of "work." Also keep in mind that radiology is like learning a new language from scratch and that medical school curriculums barely touch upon the topic.
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Not to get into a pissing contest of course, but everything you said here is definitely applicable to dermatology.....except 1-2 hours nightly is way undershooting for derm.
 
username456789 said:
Not to get into a pissing contest of course, but everything you said here is definitely applicable to dermatology.....except 1-2 hours nightly is way undershooting for derm.
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Same is true for Ortho, except they work a lot more.
 
masaraksh said:
Same is true for Ortho, except they work a lot more.
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I think many fields have decent amounts of independent studying and new material that isn't covered in med school. If you are just getting your feet wet in a field, it will seem like a lot of reading regardless of the field simply because of the knowledge gap.

The reality is that rads, derm, and path have the most reading and ortho and others do not come close to those. You are definitely kidding yourself if you think otherwise. Ortho does not have the time to read with the same intensity.
 
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Tri723 said:
I think many fields have decent amounts of independent studying and new material that isn't covered in med school. If you are just getting your feet wet in a field, it will seem like a lot of reading regardless of the field simply because of the knowledge gap.

The reality is that rads, derm, and path have the most reading and ortho and others do not come close to those. You are definitely kidding yourself if you think otherwise. Ortho does not have the time to read with the same intensity.
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Ortho is babby level compared to any of those.
 
Derm is not comparable to path or radiology as far as the material one has to know. It's far below internal medicine even. More like psych. Sorry, but not sorry.
 
Tri723 said:
you are wrong. doubt you've ever opened a true derm textbook.
you're entirely clueless. sorry, not sorry.
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How about mckee's? Completely written by pathologists. You can stick with rapini.
 
Tri723 said:
congratulations you know some dermpath. that is one part of the required things derm needs to know. That is also not a clinical derm text.
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You mean biopsy everything and rub creams on stuff? And don't get me started on mohs surgery. Those cauterized, shredded things you call "margins" are terrifying.
 
Pathman1000 said:
You mean biopsy everything and rub creams on stuff? And don't get me started on mohs surgery. Those cauterized, shredded things you call "margins" are terrifying.
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nicely done avoiding what I said, not answering my question, and throwing around generalizations to cover up for the former.
 
Emergency medicine. You have to memorize most of every other specialty!
 
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"All those drugs"
 
Admol said:
A dermatologist told me that she masters like 500 skin conditions. For the rest of them (2500+), she use textbooks.

I go with Patholoy and EM. There's a lot of memorazation.
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There may be 3,000+ skin conditions, but only 2 treatments: 1. steroids, and my personal favorite 2. more steroids.

:banana:
 
Light at end of tunnel said:
There may be 3,000+ skin conditions, but only 2 treatments: 1. steroids, and my personal favorite 2. more steroids.

:banana:
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There's also antifungals 😉

(And biologics, calcineurin inhibitors, calcitriol, light therapy, and a few others)
 
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