<p>Agree that medicine is very memory oriented.</p>
<p>When DS was studying for STEP-1 from some prep book (I do not know which one), he once mentioned that EVERY sentence in that book is important.</p>
<p>Regarding the difficulties of learning science in general, I heard that although a person can pick up readings by himself, he needs a good teacher to teach him in science. At many high schools, there are not many good science teachers so the students mostly learn math as a preparation for science only.</p>