There’s a huge difference between memorizing something and knowing it by heart. As Seth Godin so brilliantly pointed out in his podcast, Akimbo, memorization is useless when you could just look it up online.
The critics are quick to point out that you don’t want a doctor googling where the scapula is, and I wholeheartedly agree. You also don’t want you doctor memorizing all the bones so she could recite them for a test. You want a doctor who knows every bone by heart. There’s no recall where they rack their brain for the memory trick they used to remember a miscellaneous piece of information. Just like you know your favorite song, any good doctor knows the bones in her sleep.