How To Improve Memory, Medical Education and Clinical Rotations | Chase DiMarco

In episode 246, Taylor interviews Chase DiMarco MS, MBA-HA and MD/PhD candidate. Chase is the founder of FreeMedEd and creator of the Medical Mnemonist and 1-Minute Preceptor Podcasts. He is also Co-Author of Read This Before Medical School: How to Study Smarter and Live Better While Excelling in Class and on your USMLE or COMLEX Board Exams. They discuss memorization techniques to succeed in med school and beyond, the dilemma of dispassionate preceptors, and the difficulty students face when finding a clinical rotation. 

On Reforming Medical Education

Dr. Taylor Brana: In an ideal world, what would you like to see for medical students? What would you like to see for their experience to be so that this process is one that will be more effective?

All around, we need to improve on what we’re using. Get away from the traditional lecture-based and passive teaching methods and teaching at students, and implement more active learning strategies.

Teach students about active learning, teach the instructors about active learning. Shape the educational environment around correct methods. And that’ll just make it so much simpler for students to remember what they need to remember, to learn what they need to learn when they’re in that limited amount of class time, without hopefully getting too stressed.

Chase DiMarco

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Show Notes

Follow Chase online on Instagram and LinkedIn.
Check out Chase’s book Read This Before Medical School How to Study Smarter and Live Better While Excelling in Class and on Your USMLE and COMLEX Board Exams here
Check out the FreeMedEd website
Listen to the 1-Minute Preceptor and Medical Mnemonist Podcasts

Listen to Chase’s Interview with Lev Goldentouch here: Part 1 | Part 2

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Transcript

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