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Medical students have a VERY hard life. You need to be ready to make a lot of sacrifices.
You will have very little spare time, if any. Actually there will be lots of times when you won't even have time to eat or sleep. Almost all your waking hours will be spent studying, since there is a LOT to learn.
Your social life won't bud, either. It could even grind to a halt.
No time for partying, no time for daydreaming.
Books will be your best friends. You will memorize things you never knew you were capable of doing. Get ready for a ton of exams.
You will be desensitized to blood and dead people, as you will be seeing a lot of them. Anatomy is one of the basic subjects, so you will get accustomed to cadavers in your first year. (sorry if this sounds a bit morbid, but I'm just telling it like it is.)
You will find out that no matter how much you already know, there is still a lot more to learn.
After you get your medical degree, you go on to residency training, which means more sleepless nights ... going on call at the hospital even during holidays. But it's all worth it bec you know you will be saving lives. And once you're done with your training, you'll get better pay than every Tom, Dick, and Harry.
expect to be a arrogant jerk, working as a pusher for the Big-Pharma boys and killing more people than saving lives with the deadly drugs you are paid to use.
Medical students are expected to be adult learners, to manage the balance of didactical study with clinical rotations. To be professional, to be able to take criticism and be excellent observers and listeners. To be comnpassionate and uphold pt confidentiality when in the clinical environment. Be a sponge!
Medical students generally need to be eager, because as a future physician the more knowledge you obtain, the better chance of making the correct diagnosis. You really get the core of your training during your residency, but medical school is a lot of hard work and requires a great deal of devotion.
The most important thing is to be self-motivated. Unlike undergrad, nobody is going to take attendance to make sure you're in class. If you don't want to go, don't go. But then don't cry if you do poorly on a test. You are expected to learn beyond what happens in class--you'll spend a lot of time learning things on your own. You also have to be willing to look foolish once in awhile--there will be lots of help and support, but also lots of criticism and you have to be able to take it well. Don't be afraid to look foolish, it only lasts for a little while and everyone forgets it. Don't be the guy/gal who is so afraid of looking stupid that they don't ask the question and pretend they know everything--those are the people that get themselves in trouble and end up looking forever foolish in the end.
One last thing, don't expect to have a lot of free time!
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