Do doctors actually memorize hundreds of conditions and diseases like countries and capitals or something?
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Supposedly the terms and names you learn as a doctor are comparable to a new language
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Can confirm, med school was essentially just a giant exercise in secondary language acquisition
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What would you recommend as a memorization project for the basics for lay people? I recall memorizing the circulatory system names of veins/arteries in high school for fun.
I feel like I need to memorize the basics. Not first aid/cpr type stuff but general knowledge.


