As you can tell from this blog, I adore good medical mnemonics ! I want to stress, however, that you cannot replace your learning of clinical concepts with studying just Mnemonics – that’s not going to work. You still need to read, understand & assimilate a clinical topic from a good source, carve it to your brain. Only then does a mnemonic act like a lightening USB cable for a quick recall & download from the vast closets of your brain to your fingertips. 🤘🏼
Making a mnemonic while studying is very much like a game of scrabble. You create words from the letters you have gathered! But instead of frying your brains out, why not let free anagram-generating websites do it for you – easy peasy ! An anagram is basically another word created by rearranging letters of a given word. For example, RENAL is an anagram of LEARN. And if you feed in random LKANF letters, you get FLANK ! Get the idea ?
💡 My favorite site to help me make my own medical mnemonics is the Internet Anagram Server by Wordsmith , if you would like anagrams in other languages as well, there is Inge’s Anagram generator.
Happy Mnemonic making !
P.S: Some medical people misspell ‘Mnemonic’ as ‘Pneumonic’ – please don’t 😁
