A more appropriate response is that few medical schools offer any medical history classes; however, once you enter your residency training, providing the history of the condition, its discoverer or the developer of a new technique is a common practice. That's the bad news. The good news is by then, you are so accustomed to researching medical issues that it's no big deal. The other good news is that you don't have to memorize that info and can use notes!
2007-07-09 02:44:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Jessica, sweetheart, do not EVER use the word "peoples" again. Are you four?
No, we do not have to learn much about the history of medicine, but we had a few lectures here and there about it. Where I trained, we have the oldest building still in use for medical education, so we heard about that a bit. They had to hide the cadavers so the townsfolk wouldn't revolt at the "evil" that was medical education in the early 1800's.
2007-07-08 11:49:00
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answered by Pangolin 7
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Our professors usually gave a pertinent precis of a noted discoverer. Some were fascinating, like Withering getting his idea of using digitalis for dropsy from a witch.
The profs never asked these simple questions on exams. But the history of medicine is quite interesting, often amazing.
2007-07-09 05:03:32
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answered by greydoc6 7
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only mildly so
like when you're taking a math class, and you learn who invented the theorems and how, but you don't have to memorize it (unless your teacher's anal retentive about that... in which case you got unlucky)
2007-07-08 11:56:46
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answered by Angad 1
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