, Why You Need To Read This Book
Pharmacology students around the world dream of passing their exams and
having successful careers based upon a solid framework of professional
knowledge they can access from their minds. Anywhere and at any time.
And yet so few will never develop the language and terminology needed to
express their pharmacology knowledge so freely. They will never use the
nuances and layers of meaning unique to the field of drugs and medicine.
Even with the best intentions and the best of instructors, pharmacology
students struggle to learn enough pharmacology terminology and concepts
to engage in the dynamic candor needed to become a pharmacology
specialist in demand.
Why is pharmacology terminology such a struggle? Many pharmacology
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 (some of the most popular
training products involve flash cards, which simply frustrate learners who
could be using the natural capacities of the minds instead of relying on
external resources like cards that simply do not work for them). The biggest
excuse heard around the world is the saddest of all: most people claim that
they have a bad memory.
I sympathize with this. I used to love claiming that I have a poor memory.
In fact, the first time I studied a foreign language (which led to the
terminology memorization strategy you’ll learn in this book), 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. And when
my co-author, Jamie Weiss, studied pharmacology, he constantly found that
pages from books in the campus pharmacology libraries had been torn out.
Some people think this vandalism comes from competitive attempts to
prevent other students from passing the exams, but in reality, it’s because
these students didn’t want to sit and take notes. Worse, they didn’t have a
memorization strategy that would have saved them a lot of time and effort
in the end.
I remained irritated with what I perceived to be my poor memory 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 system that will have you
acquiring countless pharmacology terms at an accelerated pace within just a
short few hours after that. 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.
Within a month of creating my own 26-letter Memory Palace system for
foreign language study, I knew the meaning and sound of 260 individual
and related words. Within three months, I found myself reading relatively
complex fiction, poetry and newspapers, material in my target language that
had previously sent me riffling through the dictionary every few seconds.
When I met Jamie, he too had developed a memorization system for himself
to deal with pharmacological terminology, but had to admit that nothing he
had ever read trumps the technique taught in this book. This made him
anxious to help me develop this new book from the Magnetic Memory
Method series for pharmacology students and even established
pharmacologists so that they too can easily recall all of the pharmacology
terminology they want, wherever they want and whenever they want.
I originally developed this system 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. In both cases, I
quickly found myself conversing with people about film, music, philosophy
and many other subjects that are dear to me. I was able to visit doctors and
dentists without the help of a native speaker and could conduct my banking
and other chores with ease. It would take this entire book to express just
how many benefits I experienced, all because I took action and developed a
system that enhanced my vocabulary substantially every time I practiced.
Naturally, the people around me witnessed my progress with these
languages and literally interrogated me to get at my language-learning
knowledge. My “guerilla” memory tactics have helped many people on
their journey towards fluency, particularly because of the limited amount of
time it takes to “install” my system in their minds for easy storage and
retrieval of the vocabulary they have placed within their memory palaces.
, It pleases me immensely to help people memorize pharmacological
terminology vocabulary, especially when people regularly describe to me
how easily they were able to memorize their first 100 words in under an
hour using my methods. These achievements are thrilling to me, thrilling
for the people who use the techniques and they will thrill you too as you
develop yourself as a pharmacology practitioner.
This edition of How to Learn and Memorize Pharmacology Terminology is
for you. Whether you are a pharmacology student, doctor, nurse, medical
secretary or even just someone interested in the field of medicine who
struggles with learning, retaining and producing pharmacology terminology,
Jamie and I have designed this book so that as soon as you understand the
system, you can sit with a pharmacology textbook or dictionary anywhere
and at any time and permanently install any term that you wish for easy and
accurate recall. To this end, I have written this book primarily for those
pharmacology students who have the burning desire to learn a term once
and recall it and its meaning without frustration of any kind within minutes,
if not seconds, of having learned it.
Three obstacles stand between you and memorizing the vast quantities of
pharmacology terminology you’ll need to achieve your dreams of working
in this field.
The Belief That You Don’t Need A Dedicated Memorization Strategy
For Learning and Memorizing Pharmacology Terminology
Although repetition is always important when it comes to any form of
learning, it is a shame that so many people who study medicine wind up
relying on rote learning. Anyone who has tried to learn a second language
or memorize any kind of terminology has experienced the fantasy that
simply repeating a phrase again and again will award us permanent
ownership of those words.
Stop fooling yourself.
I spent six months “learning” German in a school in Berlin. Admittedly, I
cannot say I learned nothing because I walked away with a strong sense of
German grammar and some confidence with respect to conversational
speaking.
Pharmacology students around the world dream of passing their exams and
having successful careers based upon a solid framework of professional
knowledge they can access from their minds. Anywhere and at any time.
And yet so few will never develop the language and terminology needed to
express their pharmacology knowledge so freely. They will never use the
nuances and layers of meaning unique to the field of drugs and medicine.
Even with the best intentions and the best of instructors, pharmacology
students struggle to learn enough pharmacology terminology and concepts
to engage in the dynamic candor needed to become a pharmacology
specialist in demand.
Why is pharmacology terminology such a struggle? Many pharmacology
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 (some of the most popular
training products involve flash cards, which simply frustrate learners who
could be using the natural capacities of the minds instead of relying on
external resources like cards that simply do not work for them). The biggest
excuse heard around the world is the saddest of all: most people claim that
they have a bad memory.
I sympathize with this. I used to love claiming that I have a poor memory.
In fact, the first time I studied a foreign language (which led to the
terminology memorization strategy you’ll learn in this book), 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. And when
my co-author, Jamie Weiss, studied pharmacology, he constantly found that
pages from books in the campus pharmacology libraries had been torn out.
Some people think this vandalism comes from competitive attempts to
prevent other students from passing the exams, but in reality, it’s because
these students didn’t want to sit and take notes. Worse, they didn’t have a
memorization strategy that would have saved them a lot of time and effort
in the end.
I remained irritated with what I perceived to be my poor memory 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 system that will have you
acquiring countless pharmacology terms at an accelerated pace within just a
short few hours after that. 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.
Within a month of creating my own 26-letter Memory Palace system for
foreign language study, I knew the meaning and sound of 260 individual
and related words. Within three months, I found myself reading relatively
complex fiction, poetry and newspapers, material in my target language that
had previously sent me riffling through the dictionary every few seconds.
When I met Jamie, he too had developed a memorization system for himself
to deal with pharmacological terminology, but had to admit that nothing he
had ever read trumps the technique taught in this book. This made him
anxious to help me develop this new book from the Magnetic Memory
Method series for pharmacology students and even established
pharmacologists so that they too can easily recall all of the pharmacology
terminology they want, wherever they want and whenever they want.
I originally developed this system 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. In both cases, I
quickly found myself conversing with people about film, music, philosophy
and many other subjects that are dear to me. I was able to visit doctors and
dentists without the help of a native speaker and could conduct my banking
and other chores with ease. It would take this entire book to express just
how many benefits I experienced, all because I took action and developed a
system that enhanced my vocabulary substantially every time I practiced.
Naturally, the people around me witnessed my progress with these
languages and literally interrogated me to get at my language-learning
knowledge. My “guerilla” memory tactics have helped many people on
their journey towards fluency, particularly because of the limited amount of
time it takes to “install” my system in their minds for easy storage and
retrieval of the vocabulary they have placed within their memory palaces.
, It pleases me immensely to help people memorize pharmacological
terminology vocabulary, especially when people regularly describe to me
how easily they were able to memorize their first 100 words in under an
hour using my methods. These achievements are thrilling to me, thrilling
for the people who use the techniques and they will thrill you too as you
develop yourself as a pharmacology practitioner.
This edition of How to Learn and Memorize Pharmacology Terminology is
for you. Whether you are a pharmacology student, doctor, nurse, medical
secretary or even just someone interested in the field of medicine who
struggles with learning, retaining and producing pharmacology terminology,
Jamie and I have designed this book so that as soon as you understand the
system, you can sit with a pharmacology textbook or dictionary anywhere
and at any time and permanently install any term that you wish for easy and
accurate recall. To this end, I have written this book primarily for those
pharmacology students who have the burning desire to learn a term once
and recall it and its meaning without frustration of any kind within minutes,
if not seconds, of having learned it.
Three obstacles stand between you and memorizing the vast quantities of
pharmacology terminology you’ll need to achieve your dreams of working
in this field.
The Belief That You Don’t Need A Dedicated Memorization Strategy
For Learning and Memorizing Pharmacology Terminology
Although repetition is always important when it comes to any form of
learning, it is a shame that so many people who study medicine wind up
relying on rote learning. Anyone who has tried to learn a second language
or memorize any kind of terminology has experienced the fantasy that
simply repeating a phrase again and again will award us permanent
ownership of those words.
Stop fooling yourself.
I spent six months “learning” German in a school in Berlin. Admittedly, I
cannot say I learned nothing because I walked away with a strong sense of
German grammar and some confidence with respect to conversational
speaking.
