The other day my wife asked me about a GAMSAT preparation course (she likes to entertain my delusion that I have a say about how our money is spent :). Then today I saw a facebook post from one of the students who recently passed through our service; the 4th years have just graduated!
It got me thinking about the 'circle of life' as it were for doctors. We start off with GAMSATs (UMATs if your an undergrad), then once we get into medical school we naturally assume that we're fantastic; then we're promptly busted down to reality by all the sick people and dearths of weighty text that we're to devour.
Then we graduate and again assume that we're fantastic; then we begin our internship and are promptly busted down a peg once again (usually at a MET call where we are officially useless)....and so on and so forth.
Niels Borh said, 'An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field'. As doctors, the older we get, the more we specialise, the more we know about less and less and we watch those who will replace us enter 'the machine'. To all the would be doctors, good luck for the GAMSATs, study hard, aim high, respect yourself and the profession to which you aspire and don't forget to have fun. To all of the graduates, congratulations! Try to keep a long perspective of what will be a daily struggle in your internship, I promise it gets better :)
Cheers
David
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