Monday, 27 June 2016

Re-Learning to Learn

I’d like to think I’m good a learning. I have two degrees, surely this is evidence that I am pretty good at learning? Since I’ve started at Warwick and medical school one thing I have realised is my previous methods of learning and revising were not adequate for medical school, not adequate at all.



One thing that I got to grips with is that learning here is more about memorising facts rather than understanding concepts. This is quite different to what I have previously experienced and I have been slightly disappointed with. Inquisitive doctors are surely better doctors?

To exemplify this, one of the questions in our end of year exam was what is the probability of contracting Hepatitis C from a needle stick injury from a patient with the disease. Quite specific right? The answer is 1 in 30 by the way, which luckily I got correct.

I have been disappointed in that being inquisitive and wanting to learn more than what is being taught, whilst useful for your career, is potentially detrimental to your grades and ranking within the year. I would like to spend time reading through textbooks, however this is just not worth the time compared to going through lecture slides for, what feels like, the fifth time.

I think that part of this is that medical school is largely about memorising facts like symptoms, incidences, treatments, and so on. The other part of this is that I am studying for a four year graduate entry medical degree, cutting a year from the traditional British medical degree. In order to fit everything in a little fat must be cut and all the material must be concentrated and fine tuned.

I’m hoping that this changes throughout my latter years at Warwick when things (I’ve heard) become a little less hectic. Which I hope they do as I don’t think I could handle another three years as hard as the first one.


In my next post I will go through a number of different learning/revision methods that I think could be useful for those starting medical school.

1 comment:

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