me when I start in August
interns by January
The most terrifying joke in the Healthcare profession:
What do you call the person who graduated last in Medical School?
Doctor.
I never saw that as terrifying, I saw it as inspiring because med school can get pretty competitive, and it’s fricking hard to be top of the class. I’ve never been anywhere near top of the class - but you don’t have to be.
Medical school is a long hard road, and you have to be pretty damn good to get all the way through and pass - yes, even scrape a pass - that’s what people don’t realise. If you aren’t good enough to be a doctor then you probably won’t ever graduate. So even if you passed last, you still made it, you’re still a doctor. Who cares where you came in your year, you’ve achieved something amazing.
Exactly.
You know what the equivalent of grade “D” is called here? Elégséges, which mean enough.
I might barely pass, but passing means enough.
And apart from reaching that minimum standard, my grades won’t define how good of a doctor I’m going to be. (Seriously, one might suck at writing tests, or explaining the concepts in an oral exam, that doesn’t mean they can’t be a brilliant doctor.)
Besides, an A in med school is in no way a guarantee that you’ll be useful in a crisis.
Your patients won’t ask you what grade you got in med school. They’d care more that you were able to manage their symptoms, cure them, make them suffer less, had been a kind doctor etc.
An A in med school means you were good at taking tests. It does not necessarily mean you’re good with patients.
