title: A problem in medical education: is there an information overload?
abstract: Some problems common to many disciplines are briefly examined. One of the problems, that of an information overload, was recognized in medical education already twenty years ago; since then the situation has become much more acute. We have attempted to give a numerical value to the information content of a number of courses and these highlight the overload in the medical course.
mesh_terms: D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D007858:Learning; D008568:Memory; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D006113:United Kingdom