Sunday, November 02, 2008

The doctor guide to medical school and beyond...

Years one and two: Learning the basics. Know what organs are in the body and where they are located.
"Oh the liver is located on the right side of the body and can regenerate. Now the whole Prometheus thing makes so much sense..."

Years three and four: Taking what you learned from the basics and finding out whats actually relevant. AKA tossing out the first two years of medicine and relearning "real world medicine".

"Wait you mean that drug side effect that is tested on Step 1 only occurs 2% of the time..wtf!"

Residency: Learning to treat the basics and handling 80% of the same cases you see over and over again.
"Look at me I'm proficient in treating shock but ask me how to manage acne or a simple cold and I'll probably send you to a specialist."

Fellowship: Learning to treat that 20% that rarely occurs and the ones that most doctors don't know how to handle or not know enough about to handle.
"What a dumb referral obviously this diagnosis is some minute disease that I specialize in how can a normal doctor not figure this out...idiot. I only spent 3 years learning about this disease."

1 comments:

Phantom said...

All the story about each muscle insertion and origin in yr 1 was wasting of time :\