To become a doctor do you have to know the entire anatomy by heart?

Question

To become a doctor do you have to know the entire anatomy by heart?

Answer 1

Doctors are rich in knowledge. They are... doctors. They can easily reverse into scientists. Anatomy is taught more in med school, but classes as pre-med can teach you this. Doctors commonly reference books of tabulated data, but they have a PRETTY good % of knowing the body with studying. Studying it what it is. Not memorization.

Answer 2

Trust me, if you make it out of medical school alive, you will know the entire human anatomy.

Answer 3

no you just have to know what the right and left atria are!!!!

duh, of course you have to know the Entire anatomy

Answer 4

Yup.  That's what gross anatomy teaches.  And it IS memorization.  Lots and lots of it.  

You don't just learn all the bones, you learn the names of every little bump and ridge on every bone.  Most of the organs have names for all their little bits, and you learn them too.

Once you get out into practice, you retain only that which you use on a daily basis.  The rest you can look up if you need to.

Answer 5

I would say so. Obviously you might forget a couple of things because there is so much other stuff you need to know, but that is why you have medical books, to always relearn it and look it up when you aren't completely sure.  

Answer 6

Yes, at least until you take your final exam in Anatomy, then you start to forget. But oddly enough, this morning we drove to Cincinnati to see the "Bodies" exhibit at the Museum Center. I dissected my cadaver in 1959 and was pleased to discover how much I remembered.