While the prospect of obsolescence can be and is overstated, certainly your learning will not end with a medical degree. Stanford believes in, and prepares you for, lifelong learning. It is not good, because it will never lead to anything better. There is nothing more practical than knowledge, nothing more unpractical than ignorance. It was chosen by Jordan after he had encountered the phrase in a biography of Ulrich von Hutten, a humanist who had lived from 1488 until 1523 and who, in the course of the 19th century, had captured the public imagination as an early fighter for secular freedom.
Studies blossom and the minds move.
I invite you to fully experience the pleasures and the practical benefits in the changing world of medicine that come from studies blossoming and minds moving.