How hard is med school?

Bigredmed
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:41:39 +0000

addendum to the above:
Despite my entirely average USMLE scores, I have plenty of evidence that I’m good at taking care of patients and love taking care of the sickest children in the hospital - those that require being in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. I’m interviewing for fellowship training positions for Peds Critical Care at the moment and all the programs I’m considering are top 15 in the country. For all the people that consider pediatrics easy, I promise you, none of them want to be in my position when an extremely ill child rolls through. Once you get out into actual real clinical medicine test scores don’t necessarily mean a whole lot. The high board scores needed to match into competitive specialties are not because those specialties require more knowledge, just that the specialties have their pick of well qualified applicants.