short term vs. long term
relationships… NOT…
sizes? nah…
what i’m referring to here is memory (did i spell that right?)… anyways, memory (whatever)… one of the most important talents that you need to get through medschool…. very, very important… one thing that is difficult though is that, some people have good short term memory, and others have good long term memory others, well they have both…
UNFORTUNATELY, i have a very good long term memory BUT a poor short term memory… or atleast thats what i think… why? i could remember stuff that i did months ago or years ago, but i can’t remember the dates… but when it comes to hundreds of different stuff (not to mention extremely alien words) that someone tries to stick in my head for 4 hours, my short term memory just fails me… its crazy…. i don’t know how i’m gonna improve my short term memory… mebbe i should listen more… but then i do listen more just that new words won’t exactly register that quickly to me UNLESS i’ve used it a couple of times myself thus converting it to long term memory….
i can explain to my best extent any process any physiologic or pathologic stuff that i’ve gone through but when it comes to asking me something that is pure memorization like, say, just names or phrases, i would definitely suck at that…
thus in pharma, if you start asking me how it works, i’ll explain it pretty well, but ask me every single freaking name of a drug? i’ll have a hard time with that… but am not saying i won’t try….
i hate memorizing… it sucks… according to a great philosopher (i forgot the name) memorization is the lowest form of knowledge… and i live by that principle… thats why everytime i take a freaking exam that asks me enumerate… i feel that i get stupid each time… my brain keeps saying this sucks whenever i take that kind of exam…
i just don’t see the point in enumeration type of exams… why? because its a no talent thing… it feels as though, i know these stuff but how does it work? why does it work?… it sucks really…. i don’t get challenged by that… it pisses me off… not that i’m doing bad… i’m doing good actually but then… hindi naman ganun ang kukunin namen na exam sa boards ah……….. what the heck is the point?! tendency of the students would be that they would start to just memorize the stuff enumerated but not know the contents anymore… is that good? i don’t think so….
stuff should change… people should change… we can’t live in the dark ages for the rest of our lives… this is not a test of knowledge gained nor is it a test of slowly maturing minds of future doctors…. its just a freaking test of seeing who can memorize the best!
