Medical students around the world dream of passing their exams and becoming successful doctors who understand the human body and everything associated with its healing.

Yet so many people get locked out of achieving their dreams. They will never develop the terminological and structural knowledge needed to practice medicine professionally. Nor will they ever use the nuances and layers of meaning unique to the field of medicine.

Why is medical terminology such a struggle?

After all, there are excellent teachers out there, not to mention outstanding medical programs. Yet, even with the best intentions and the best of instructors, medical students struggle to learn enough medical terminology and concepts to engage in the dynamic “bedside” candor needed to become a medical specialist in demand.

There are a few reasons.

For one thing, many medical students blame a lack of time. Some claim that memorizing the terms they need to know is too hard.

Others try to learn by rote, desperately copying the words they need to learn hundreds of times by hand, or by sorting through index cards, hour after frustrating hour. Sadly, many people don't realize that rote learning has been shown to damage our critical thinking abilities. That's one reason why people double-down on cramming: their ability to reason their way to better learning strategies has been damaged.

But the biggest excuse heard in medical schools around the world is the saddest of all: so many people claim that they have a bad memory.

I sympathize with this sentiment.

You see, I used to love claiming that I have a poor memory. In fact, the first time I studied a foreign language, I silently swore in English so vehemently about my “bad memory” that I would have been kicked out of class had I spoken my frustration out loud.

Now, I'm the guy who gets invited to serve as commentator at events like the 2023 Pan American Open Memory Competition. They ask me to predict which memory techniques the competitors are using, and later when we interview them, I'm right. Some people consider me the world's leading memory expert, and there might be something to that given all the time I've spent on the topic. Not to mention my own modest memory competition performance and much more interesting demonstrations through millions of views on a TEDx Talk and constantly answering questions on live stream from memory.

But back then, I remained irritated with what I perceived to be my poor memory. And nothing changed until I decided to do something about it. I studied memorization and ultimately devised the unique Memory Palace system described in this book.

It is an easily learned set of skills based around the alphabet that you can completely understand in under an hour. It is a flexible combination of methods and systems that will help you acquire countless medical terms at an accelerated pace within just a short few hours after you start applying the lessons in this book.

Instead of struggling to learn and retain one or two words a day, you will find yourself memorizing dozens of terms every time you practice using my strategies. The best part is that you can apply these same strategies to memorizing medical case studies as well. You can memorize patient names while keeping up with the latest research. And you'll be able to remember more of the interesting things you explore during your free time. If you want to memorize lines from Shakespeare or quotes from the Stoics, you'll be able to do that.

Preparing the Mind For Rapid Learning

Magnetic Memory Techniques: The Fundamentals

Mastering the Memory Palace Technique

How to Establish Long Term Recall

Body Memory Palaces & Long Term Memory

How to Make Flashcards & Software "Magnetic"

Memorizing Numbers Critical to Health

Conclusion

Perhaps no one alive has answered more questions about memory techniques in medicine and many other fields than I have.

That's why this book covers all the common questions, with the most specific and in-depth answers available. These will help you think through your own medical learning projects so you set them up for success.

I originally developed the core system you'll discover in this book to help me learn German while living in Berlin. Later, I applied the same techniques to Spanish because of the Spanish-speaking friends I made while living in Germany. I've passed tests in German, Mandarin and completed personal learning projects related to my studies in meditation.

For example, I memorized over 1700 words in Sanskrit for applied research that led to writing my book, The Victorious Mind. Something struck a nerve with that project. At the time I'm writing this new introduction to How to Learn and Memorize Medical Terminology, people still email me about it. The TEDx Talk where I discuss the project currently as 3.4 million views!

I've also used these techniques to memorize a lot of medical terminology myself when working with students in the Magnetic Memory Method Masterclass. I talk easily with them about the thoracic cavity, the lumbar plexus and phlebotomy. No, I'm not a medical doctor myself, though some people call me "doctor" because I have a PhD. But it has been my pleasure to demonstrate how these techniques work and help medical students and doctors around the world achieve their dreams.

What exactly happened in Germany that led to the evolution of this specific set of mnemonic strategies?

A few things. I'd known about mnemonics and used to use them to memorize the names of my students. I'd applied them in university to help me pass my Ph.D. exams. And they'd helped me develop a smattering of German phrases.

One day, while sitting on the porch with a German dictionary, it occurred to me that if I had one Memory Palace for every letter of the alphabet, I could possibly memorize every word in the book.

So I worked out the system you'll learn in this book. Within a month of the idea I had that afternoon, I knew the meaning and pronunciation of 260 individual and related words. And I knew how to scale each word to accomodate entire phrases with high-powered mnemonics. You'll learn how to use this technique in a different way to add information about side effects to medicines, different symptoms of diseases and any amount of information. Frankly, if what eventually came to be called the Magnetic Memory Method didn't scale in the ways you're going to learn, I wouldn't have been all that excited about it.

But it does scale, and the best part is that our best science validates how and why it works. Even better, in the years since I've studied thousands of years of how our ancestors used these techniques. It turned out they wrote voluminously about their tactics for carrying entire books in their minds when they couldn't carry them in our heads. Plus, I've now spent over a decade in detailed conversations with memory competitors. The more I learn, the more I share, and that's just one more reason I'm excited to be putting together the second edition of this book. It's the same core technique, but with many more options on how to use the techniques to master your understanding of medicine.

As mentioned, I've also worked now with many medical students and professionals upgrading their skills since I started teaching memory skills. These experiences have made me excited to update this book for medical students and established doctors so that they too can easily recall all of the medical terminology they want, wherever they want and whenever they want. And of course, you don't have to stop at medical knowledge. You can add as much information as you would like. All you have to do is put the techniques into action.

To that end, this new edition of How to Learn and Memorize Medical Terminology is for you. Whether you are a medical student, nurse, medical secretary or even just someone interested in the field of medicine who struggles with learning, retaining and producing medical terminology, I have designed this new edition with one big outcome in mind. As soon as you understand the Magnetic Memory Method, you'll be able to sit down with a medical textbook anywhere and at any time and permanently install any medical knowledge that you wish for easy and accurate recall. I know that sounds like a big promise, but consider this:

The world's current leading memory athlete, Alex Mullen, is at the moment completing his radiology residency. I know him fairly well in terms of being a colleague in the worlds of memory education and athleticism. In fact, the Pan American Open Memory Competition I mentioned above? He was the star athlete and it was so much fun to see him maintain his record yet again. Although he doesn't teach memory techniques as much as we all might like, he's shared quite a bit and you'll encounter his influence throughout this book. He's also been a great supporter of my own efforts as a teacher of mnemonics and accelerated learning, for which I'll always be grateful.

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