Why Medical Education Fails to Teach Future Doctors How to Think | Dr. Philip Unfiltered

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In this conversation, I discuss why modern medical education struggles to teach students how to think like a doctor and why true clinical reasoning is so difficult to learn—and to teach. We explore the shortcomings of memorization-based resources, including traditional pathology texts, and why understanding pathophysiology must come before algorithms, checklists, or pattern recall. I explain what separates information from judgment, why great medical educators are increasingly rare, and how students can train themselves to reason through disease rather than recite facts.

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Chapters

00:00 – How I began teaching pathology
04:41 – Memorization versus understanding
10:52 – What it actually means to think like a doctor
16:01 – Teaching disease through pathophysiology
23:18 – Why great medical educators are rare
31:42 – Judgment, pattern recognition, and reasoning
41:06 – The future of medical education

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