1) True learning is not about reading a lot of books, checking out many Tweetorials or listening to a lot of podcasts.
If that was so, everybody would have been 'successful' and not creating content about 'success'.
If that was so, everybody would have been 'successful' and not creating content about 'success'.
2) True learning is based on something I called the retention percentage --> the percentage of your knowledge that you can actually use in your day to day life.
3) I have applied this retention ratio to medicine since the day I started --> 10 years back in 2022.
Whatever you learn, until and unless you are comfortable with it --> that you can use it in day to day clinical practice --> you have not really learnt it.
Whatever you learn, until and unless you are comfortable with it --> that you can use it in day to day clinical practice --> you have not really learnt it.
4) For example --> let's talk about familial colorectal Ca syndromes like Lynch syndrome/FAP/Cowden/PJ etc etc.
Its okay to read about it.
Its more important to think about it when you see a patient with Ca colon!
Its okay to read about it.
Its more important to think about it when you see a patient with Ca colon!
5) If you think about it, you will read about it again maybe using POC guides like UpToDate --> this consolidates your knowledge!
This is real learning --> knowledge that goes beyond your hippocampus and into the neocortex.
This is real learning --> knowledge that goes beyond your hippocampus and into the neocortex.
6) The next time you see another patient with Ca colon --> these encoded memory pathways are strengthened again and maybe you get to diagnose a syndrome!
Your peers laud your skills --> but its just a different way of thinking!
Your peers laud your skills --> but its just a different way of thinking!
7) Remember, that our cognition is like a searchlight!
If you don't think about something, you will always miss it!
So don't overload your brain with information, learn to what you already have!
Learn to focus the searchlight of cognition!
If you don't think about something, you will always miss it!
So don't overload your brain with information, learn to what you already have!
Learn to focus the searchlight of cognition!
*learn to do with what you already have.
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