I was talking to other junior doctors the other week and they were moaning about how they didn’t get to do much at med school (clinical years) and it didn’t prepare them for work… Myself, a few of the other SHOs and a Reg commented that we learnt plenty… from being there 9-5 and beyond and bothering to prepare ourselves for our job to come.

I think it’s far too easy for certain people to get into medical school (in the UK anyway). It’s a default option teachers offer when a pupil is academically much above average, they don’t care to think whether someone would make a good doctor… or if they even know if it’s what they want to (and will) dedicate the rest of their life to.

If I’d done what my teachers said I would’ve ended up in art school….

Still that would’ve been pretty cool…