<p>In regard to a lots of new vocabulary…this is the major major side of what is learned in Med. School. D. has mentioned that specifically the beginning of the Neuro /Psych block was basically learning of the “new language” because of anormous amount of the new vocabulary.<br>
Anyway, after she was done with all pre-clinicals and was preparing for the Step 1, she still was up to learning more and more of new terminology that many times did not make any sense whatsoever, just got to memorize it, boring or not or whatever feeling you have about it was irrelevant.<br>
One more time, CS is NOT math heavy at all. But I can see the point that engineers / CS people do poorly with Bio. Being in IT myself for over 30 years (and in EE for many years before), I can tell one thing, there is NO memory required for either, you got to be able to analyze, “figure out”, “de-bug”, and you are better off if you “attack” each problem (or new design) as a brand new that you have never dealt with.<br>
Medicine is very very memory oriented, I would be out in first couple weeks, foir sure, I hav lost the little memory that I had, relying heavily on analytical skills, and, yes, math was my easy and favorite subject and while I did not remember any of it, I was able to help my D. (the top math student in her private HS) all thru HS. I can “figure out” math, while I am totally incapable of remembering anything.</p>