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cosign on all of this, I agree 100%. I think schools are to blame as well, Med School is basically just a ton of memorization...that isn't exactly helpful.
Unless you are online filling out your ERAS right now I don't even know how you could make such a statement. And if that were the case you will be miserable in residency. But since I'm sure you're not I'll just go ahead and tell you that you are flat out wrong. Is there a lot of memorization involved? Absolutely. You need to memorize garbage about the Kreb's Cycle and Monophosphate Shunts, and all this other crap that you will never use in clinical medicine. But the vast majority of what goes on is application of principles. 99.9% of what I do on a daily basis is clinical application. Do I need to memorize the induction doses of lidocaine, propofol, fentanyl, etomidate, ketamine, succinylcholine, and rocuronium? Of course. But how do those doses change in a trauma patient, a patient with end stage renal disease, a patient with a recent MI? Those aren't facts that I can memorize. I need to know how each drug works and what it will do to every organ system in the body and tailor my anesthetic approach to each individual patient.