Young doctors-to-be begin by being CPUs of information overload during the first 2 years of medical school. However, they must transition to the real-life application of their knowledge in clinical scenarios, be it diagnostic challenges or procedural tasks in medicine or surgery during third- and fourth-year clerkships.
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Even outside of medicine, one must appreciate the benefit of learning information through different means - you cannot simply just sit there in your room and expect to gain mastery of a subject by simply reading over and over again.
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👉Practice-Based Learning - Many curriculums present clinical scenarios that engage the young doctor in critically processing medical facts, combining them with simulated patient data (lab values, imaging, physical exam) to develop a list of plausible diagnoses.
👉Clinical Rotations - Perhaps the steepest part of the learning curve for everybody, as we are interpreting and communicating about REAL patient information for the first time! Many curricula evaluate students on the ‘RIME’ acronym (Reporter, Interpreter, Manager, Educator). The student goes from being astute data collectors, sitting in front of computer screens, to making inferences and then teaching colleagues, even their own attendings and mentors!
👉Teach One, Do One, Teach One - Your training continues well after you have earned your letters and your license. You will be learning something new pretty much every day for the rest of your career, so be prepared to learn from people your junior who have experienced a different decade of medicine. Conversely, be prepared to mentor your junior colleagues as they enter the real world of medicine after training.

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