đź“–Spaced repetition for efficient learning
- authors
- Gwern Branwen
- year
- 2019
- url
- https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
Spaced repetition is good for medicine because you are expected to memorize a ton of information and the curriculum is standardized (so you can use pre-made decks)
Knowledge is a compound interest. If you work a little bit harder every day, you will gain much more results.
The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. —Richard Hamming, You and Your Research
Spaced repetition is for maintaining the level, not achieving new levels.
Spaced repetition seems to help both recall and abstraction.
Spacing is best in intellectual, highly-factual domains