The Challenges of Working Memory and ADHD in Med School
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“One of the lesser-known issues that the average person might not immediately associate with ADHD, working memory is the aspect of your memory that everything has to pass through on the way in and pass through on the way out. You can think of it as a workbench — or a chalkboard. There’s limited room, and that space will fill up. When more information comes in, it pushes out the old stuff.” -Ryan Orwig
In episode two of our podcast miniseries, Conversations About ADHD in med school, host Ryan Orwig returns with Mike, a former STATMed class participant, to discuss issues with working memory and how this can impact med students with ADHD.
“I didn’t even know it [working memory] was a thing. You just kind of compensate through your life. You use sticky notes or write things down, or find ways to compensate without really knowing what working memory is, that it’s a problem, or that it can cause problems.” — Dr. Mike
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