Managing Cognitive Retention of Surgical Graduate with Improved Techniques: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology

Abstract

As the base of scientific knowledge expands, it is becoming harder for the today’s medical student to have a lasting grip on it. It is timely and very much the need of hour to incorporate modern learning techniques in our lessons and educate medical students about them so that they can remember most of material, manage the cognitive load more effectively and enhance their germane loads to compete the pace of ever-increasing body of medical knowledge. It remains imperative to understand the process of information processing and cognition, the problems associated with it before embarking on identifying and suggesting the strategies to overcome associated issues. This article would focus on first, the process of information processing and memorizing and in the later half would focus on identifying associated problems and the strategies in light of modern theories and recommendations to rectify them.