>>12185805You can't memorize well things you don't understand.
There are too many things to remember to practice medicine efficiently without reasoning and deducing.
The way students are taught medicine is to feed them with a lot of facts initially in order for them to have a floor on which you can build, it's not different than how you begin with maths by counting and memorizing multiplications tables then progress from ingesting facts to reasoning with concepts.
The main difference between how medicine and mathematics/physics are taught is that you learn a lot of things from different fields at surface level instead of learning a few things at an in depth level.
A doctor is supposed to have bits of knowledge in anatomy, physiology, semiology, chemistry, physics, cellular biology, genetics, microbiology, psychology, statistics, pharmacology, etc...
The more secondary aspect is obviously that it's training for a job, there are expectations you have to fulfill that are critical. You can't allow students to just study the part they enjoy and specialize into it while ignoring others.
If you're a neurologist in an hospital you will be confronted during practice to immediate life threatening conditions like a pulmonar emboly or a ventricular fibrillation so the way to deal with them must be drilled into their minds.
t. bachelor in maths who became a doctor
>>12186404Doing a full examination everytime you see a patient is a huge waste of time, unless you enjoy getting questioned by a robot with binary questions for an hour. Provided you're clear in your complaints a good clinician will be able to make an accurate diagnostic in 80% of the cases, if he doesn't he will have to move to physical exams and then imagery/exploration or blood tests.
