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LEARNING MEDICINE IN INFORMATION AGE
Dr.T.V.Rao MD
When I was a Medical student in 60s there were few text books and few Medicalperiodicals, and our teachers were the best treasure of knowledge to cherish and remember,
their idealism and principles, have kept us long way in our careers. India has progressed a long
way with privatization of Medical education, as the resources are inadequate to fund the
Government run Institutes to the Modern needs of the Society. Privatization done both good
and bad, produced many eminent Doctors who could not be accommodated in Government
run Institutes, produced bad Doctors? Not interested in Medicine and with no ethics in
practice. Many times the policies regarding teaching and training remain the same, practically
with few changes in the last 3 decades. The biggest problem in medical education today is an
old one: There is too much to know, and not enough time to learn it. The problem is moreacute today than it has been in the past, because of the great increase in medical information
and even the addition of new courses in medical instituions. How can you digest and
remember so much information, whether its for your general medical education or your
competitive entrance examinations. We cannot be dedicated teachers as we were in the past,
as few get inspired by the senior teachers,while memory aids, guides and humour certainly
can help. It is more important that we really understand complex developments in Medicine,
or we just insist to memorize it by our students. However remember understanding as it is
key because you can apply the information to a great variety of medical situations instead of
using a cookbook approach that lacks understanding and applies to only a narrow spectrum of
textbook medical cases. Moreover, once you understand, it becomes much easier to pick up
and remember more esoteric facts, as opposed to just trying to remember isolated bits of
information.Once youre on the wards or practical /demonstration rooms, the question is
how to make the most efficient use of your time in continuing your medical education. Not
only is your time limited, but youll often find yourself fatigued from long periods on class
schedules. Trying to study a book like Robins Pathology, Harrisons Medicine from cover to
cover is likely to be futile, and leads to more confusion where there is many fold expansion of
knowledge. But your primary focus in the medical-college years should be on acquiring the
general broad information that is common knowledge. I always teach Medical students
practice common sense, which is easy to attain if we use our 5 senses. Many wish to learn
medicine through text books fine, it has often been said, and that the best way to learn and
retain medicine is through patient interaction and competent clinical examination. But to
supplement this learning experience, it is important to do a certain amount of critical reading.
Learning from your competent seniors or postgraduates, residents, in reality many so called
Senior Professors have no time or disinterested to teach the juniors, a tragedy which can ever
be corrected? While a large step forward in many regards, the skills of evidence-based
medicine is necessary but not sufficient for the practice of contemporary medicine and
surgery.Medical students must learn the techniques and skills to focus on finding, evaluating,
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and using information at the point of patient care.In the past 10 years, two major changes
have occurred in the processing of information in medicine: the widespread and easy
availability of the medical research literature to clinicians, students and their patients and
movement away from expert-led medicine to practice directed by patient-centred, outcomes-
based research. Information management focuses on using readily available information toolsto remain up to date with new valid information that is relevant to the diagnosis and care of
patients and is accessible while taking care of patients. In the era of privatization so many
changes occurred, it is difficult to define the word Merit, we find many non-meritorious students too
succeed with Time, we teachers have to handle all the groups with the aim of making them better
Doctors or else we are in for decay and many crises in future and we will have few solutions to deal.
We all know Studying is not a competitive sport some students take less time to learn than
you will, but some take (much) MOREtime than youthats life! Good news in the end, we
are all doctors. In the family all the children are not equally intelligent as what works for many
may or may not work for some other studentdont be discouraged!Exam results notreflective of your efforts? Ask for help! Professors, your seniors, mentors and strong peers
can enhance your study skills. Learn from the patients as there are no best resources than our
patients they are museum of Medicine.
Acquire a general understanding through the small, clinically relevant books they provide the overall
picture, so you can see the forest rather than the trees. Teaching with Humour and Human concern
can help, but understanding is key. Seek out particular points of information through the Internet.
Keep a reference text at hand. Read journals as time allows. I still believe that Darwins Theory still
works many perish as Physicians and Society will reject many Doctors if matters are not
understood in the right directions, Both Teachers and Students alike work hard to improve the
fast progressing Medical Information or else ? . Best way for Student and Teacher is
STUDYING is STUDYING it is never wasted.
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