Recall of medical information by students and doctors

Students in different years of study and from two different medical schools, and a few doctors, read fixed order case descriptions, commented on the case items and tried to reproduce the case descriptions from memory. It was found that typical cases were not reproduced better than atypical cases, nor did the amount of recall differ significantly in different subject groups. Qualitative measures of recall, however, point to a shift in cognitive organization during the different years of study.