Re:75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, o...
by assblaster on Saturday January 05, 2019 @02:19PM
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Since you haven't been through medical education and training, you wouldn't understand that while certain details are forgotten, the core knowledge that serves as the basis for further learning is retained.
Do you remember every detail of your first grade education? Probably not, but it has served as a foundation for everything else you learned in life. How do you learn calculus if you don't learn numbers and letters?
Okay, that was sarcastic. But in my view no doctor knows all of those subjects in depth. Pre-med students take the basic STEM courses in order to pass their MCAT's, and then forget most of what they learned, and those courses were all just superficial intro courses anyway.
To be fair, the same can be said of most engineers.
Many med students (wisely) major in a STEM subject, so they may get into more depth than someone who majored in some kind of "studies." But what they know is a function of what they actually studied, learned, and kept up with after college, which does not make me super optimistic.