worrying about forgotten stuff

[gc1983]

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hey,

does anyone feel that they have forgotten loads of stuff they learnt in the first couple of years? it pisses me off that i cant remember things and how do you know what to not worry too much about and what to worry about? its disillusioning to think that i need to know so much by the end of medschool when at the moment ive forgotten things i knew well...aaaaagh.

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[2112_rush]

hey,

does anyone feel that they have forgotten loads of stuff they learnt in the first couple of years? it pisses me off that i cant remember things and how do you know what to not worry too much about and what to worry about? its disillusioning to think that i need to know so much by the end of medschool when at the moment ive forgotten things i knew well...aaaaagh.

😡

Tell me about it. I just took my biochem board a little over a week ago and already a few of the details have gotten hazy. I tried to talk about anatomy the other day and it was like, "that ligament, you know, that goes from here to here."

 

[dmitrinyr]

I have that same problem. I just had my biochem final last week and I was trying to explain something to a friend of mine and noticed that I was pausing quite a bit on stuff that I knew cold only a week ago. I guess it is impossible to remember all of the details. Just try to remember as much "big picture" or "main idea" stuff in all the topics as possible and then if you ever need to know the details (i.e. if you're about to assist on a surgery on the neck) you can look up the anatomy of the neck and re-learn it pretty quickly because you have already mastered this info already. I just try to keep as much info in my head as possible, but when I relax (like I am doing now with finals over) and when you don't see the material multiple times, it easy to lose material that you once mastered. Good luck

 

[tupac_don]

I have that same problem. I just had my biochem final last week and I was trying to explain something to a friend of mine and noticed that I was pausing quite a bit on stuff that I knew cold only a week ago. I guess it is impossible to remember all of the details. Just try to remember as much "big picture" or "main idea" stuff in all the topics as possible and then if you ever need to know the details (i.e. if you're about to assist on a surgery on the neck) you can look up the anatomy of the neck and re-learn it pretty quickly because you have already mastered this info already. I just try to keep as much info in my head as possible, but when I relax (like I am doing now with finals over) and when you don't see the material multiple times, it easy to lose material that you once mastered. Good luck

Relax, half of this stuff you won't need anyway. And as far as USMLE step I is concerned, since you learned the stuff once already, it will be easier to brush up on it when styding for step I. In clinicals, like someone said you can always read up on something that you forgot.

 

[thackl]

Tell me about it. I just took my biochem board a little over a week ago and already a few of the details have gotten hazy. I tried to talk about anatomy the other day and it was like, "that ligament, you know, that goes from here to here."

Tell me about it 👎 I worried about this for a while, then realized everyone was having the same problem. We'll all be fine......

 

[cfdavid]

Please take this as a grain of salt, as I'm not in med school yet.

I think that part of the strategy of professional educators (med schools, other professional schools....) is to throw SO much at you, with such detail, that you will very effectively retain only a small portion. However, given the volume, a relatively small percentage of retention is quite a lot really.

I actually think that is a deliberate strategy for teaching, although I don't think you'd find too many prof's willing to acknowledge that.

 

[usmle007]

Please take this as a grain of salt, as I'm not in med school yet.

I think that part of the strategy of professional educators (med schools, other professional schools....) is to throw SO much at you, with such detail, that you will very effectively retain only a small portion. However, given the volume, a relatively small percentage of retention is quite a lot really.

I actually think that is a deliberate strategy for teaching, although I don't think you'd find too many prof's willing to acknowledge that.

hey you can test your knoledge and see what happens

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