Hi there !
I’m a 4th year med student , you can say that I like always to score high , my last exams for microbiology went well too and got the prize over the class! I’m using memory techniques since 2015 , its helped me alot through my acadamic life.
For study I prefer to use fictional kind of Romanian Rooms for different e.g bacteria , like lets gonna say “nocardia” I will imagine some place (may be a real place or fictional one) that is somehow related to the name of the organism , for “nocardia” we can take piece of it “…cardia” and relating it to some place rememberable related somehow with the word , such like an O.R with a patient having an open-heart surgery , and transcript all the data of the organism into that imaginary place , like if it was gram positive or negative you should have a fixed picture for that like “crossed two swords” for a gram positive and a “candle” for gram negative , and then their sources like soil or a NF , its all a repeated data , with practice you will have your special way to do it.
For pathologgy it’s the same like let us say G6PDd anemia , we can imagine a sugar factory with a an A shaped tower with a “lighting sword” indicating the most common mutation (G6PDA-) , the factory suddenly have that strange shaped cubes of sugars (abnormal urine color) with drugs (oxidants) attacks the factory and so on!
Wish that could help
Another thing why I don’t use memory loci , because it takes TIME to construct but with Romanian Rooms , you can build one along the way , exactly when you are actually saving the information you will build your room piece by piece , it’s like mixing of simple story and romanian room , we can call it a story with a fixed place LOL!