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The medical school syllabus
My fellow comrades do you have any idea what we are up against as medical students????!!!!!! Has any one of us ever reached a point where they think they know enough to get a 100% before the next exam? How many of us get through an entire week without at some point feeling they're not as smart they thought they were? Better still, who amongst us has ever spent a day without saying "i don't know" to a lecturer, consultant, nurse, classmate or even to themselves?
Just think about it, remember that time you were in the Neurology lecture and the professor said something like "...you all remember from your first year Anatomy the pathways of the cranial nerves..." and you all looked at each other. Well trust me, you were all saying the same thing in your minds, "I DON'T REMEMBER" with different variations of course. Some were probably thinking, "What's the name of the fourth cranial nerve by the way?" and who knows, maybe someone among you was thinking, "What are cranial nerves by the way?". Bottom line is relax, you are not alone, IGNORANCE IS OUR COMMON ENEMY. That is what we are up against as medical students, every single one of us.
In medicine you cannot know everything. That is a fact everyone knows and no one can dispute but that should not set us back. It is so easy to use, or rather ABuse, this fact in one's favour and place yourself in the comfort zone. How many times have you consoled yourself using that statement within the last week? Does the phrase "I'm not reading this cause it's not coming in the exam" sound familiar? Fair enough but ladies and gentlemen let me remind you of one tiny little fact that we all take for granted as medical students and which will haunt us for the rest of our lives: ignorance is a disease and disease can cause death. That means all doctors are diseased but some more than others and logically the more you know, the less ignorant you are and the less dangerous you are as a doctor.
So how can we cure this disease? The drug is knowledge. And the treatment plan? Gather as much knowledge as you possibly can. Exactly how can we do that? By finishing the medical school syllabus? Oh yes, all medical schools have a syllabus and it's the same throughout the world because the examiner is also the same. The medical school syllabus is the HUMAN BEING and our examiner is THE PATIENT.
You want to be a good doctor? Try to know everything there is to know about the human being, finish the medical school syllabus. Do you now have an idea of what we're up against as medical students? What a task!!!!
Just think about it, remember that time you were in the Neurology lecture and the professor said something like "...you all remember from your first year Anatomy the pathways of the cranial nerves..." and you all looked at each other. Well trust me, you were all saying the same thing in your minds, "I DON'T REMEMBER" with different variations of course. Some were probably thinking, "What's the name of the fourth cranial nerve by the way?" and who knows, maybe someone among you was thinking, "What are cranial nerves by the way?". Bottom line is relax, you are not alone, IGNORANCE IS OUR COMMON ENEMY. That is what we are up against as medical students, every single one of us.
In medicine you cannot know everything. That is a fact everyone knows and no one can dispute but that should not set us back. It is so easy to use, or rather ABuse, this fact in one's favour and place yourself in the comfort zone. How many times have you consoled yourself using that statement within the last week? Does the phrase "I'm not reading this cause it's not coming in the exam" sound familiar? Fair enough but ladies and gentlemen let me remind you of one tiny little fact that we all take for granted as medical students and which will haunt us for the rest of our lives: ignorance is a disease and disease can cause death. That means all doctors are diseased but some more than others and logically the more you know, the less ignorant you are and the less dangerous you are as a doctor.
So how can we cure this disease? The drug is knowledge. And the treatment plan? Gather as much knowledge as you possibly can. Exactly how can we do that? By finishing the medical school syllabus? Oh yes, all medical schools have a syllabus and it's the same throughout the world because the examiner is also the same. The medical school syllabus is the HUMAN BEING and our examiner is THE PATIENT.
You want to be a good doctor? Try to know everything there is to know about the human being, finish the medical school syllabus. Do you now have an idea of what we're up against as medical students? What a task!!!!
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Comment by nyshant thakur on August 31, 2011 at 7:24am -
david its a wonderful blog,, i came across it by accident,,well keep up,, there are more we people looking forward to blog like this,,,bye
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