Why is med school so hard? Why is it so that people who never experience the terror of failing or being ridiculed for stupidly not knowing something that is ‘obvious’ have to live in fear of such torments daily?!?!
Why does it cost more and more? The equipment and medication i understand. But the books?!? The exam fees eg. USMLE? Is one generation the golden egg laying geese for the last? Wouldn’t that lead to harder input cost turnover for us and our successors? What would medical cost look like in the future?!?
every week there are new discoveries in medical science but medical course is still around 5-6 years long! That’s insane! What we need to learn is increasing exponentially but we are not given the time to do so! And not only that, the method of education hasn’t change all that much for decades. Kept busy all day, wards, clinics, tutorials, lectures… and to make sure we are run through everything, holidays get shorter and study breaks all but disappear… when do I study!?!? When do I assimilate what i just manage to understand and am struggling to engrain into my memory?!?!
The doctor to patient ratio difference is getting smaller. in the past in this country, fresh graduates were snatched up by government hospitals right after their exams cause they are that short of doctors! People who fumble through can become specialist consultants in due time. But now? Last I heard there was a hospital is some backwater town in this country that has over 200 HO/interns to about just as many beds… hopefully that is just management error and not a harbringer of overproduction… might bring a whole new meaning to personalised medicine… who are going to ‘feed’ us?
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