Medical education: an unforgettable experience? [Letter]

Abstract

Omer Mohamed, Hussein Elghazaly, Mohammed AllafFaculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UKWe read with great interest the study by Zaeemzadeh et al1 regarding the evaluation of Physiology knowledge loss in medical students. In particular, their results that the extent of physiology knowledge loss was inversely correlated with time were fascinating, as this conflicts with the known relationship between the passing of time and memory loss,2 and also conflicts with similar studies.3,4 Furthermore, their findings contradict with our own experiences at Imperial College School of Medicine that time is a major contributor to knowledge loss.View the original paper by Zaeemzadeh and colleagues

Keywords

• Medical education
• Physiology
• memory loss