Motivations and Challenges of Medicine Students: A Candid Perspective

2023-07-15 08:07:30

Los Medicine students They come to college motivated by different issues. Some feel the vocation since they are children, others think about continuing the family legacy. There are also those who access the grade motivated by the prestige of the profession. But there is another reality, that of the students who land in these classrooms because they are good students with excellent marks in the EBAU. These future university students consider that acquiring knowledge in other areas for which lower qualifications are required may be a way of losing an opportunity to have a place in what others so long for and cannot achieve.

It is the situation that it describes Andres Garciafictitious name of a doctor who agrees to narrate his testimony to Medical Writing on the condition that his name not be made public so as not to affect the opinion that his patients have of him. He states that, in his case, two circumstances came together: “some excellent grades that allowed access and a family of doctors that I didn’t want to disappoint.

He assures in his story that since he was a child he thought that his path had already been chosen. “Coming from a family of doctorsIt was very easy for me when making the exams. That’s why my grades were always excellent. I thought that because they were my parents experts, that path was already drawn for me and I just had to follow it. He even thought that he would have better opportunities, but the reality was very different.”

Despite the fact that in his head the road seemed idyllic, the truth is that the years of universidad were especially difficult for this one doctor. “I sacrificed my mental stability and my health in general for finishing the studies. It was very difficult. Plus, I felt extra pressure from not disappoint to my parents because they expected more from me: better grades, better performance… They wanted me to do the internships they wanted in my free time. For all this, I regret my decision to have studied Medicine“.

“In the hospital hierarchies you are the last one. They do not respect you. They humiliate you and do not seek to help you. They want you to learn the hard way”

In his argument, García assures that “Medicine It is a career that is too sacrificed and little recognized worldwide” and points to the hierarchies established in hospitals as the culprits of diminishing the enthusiasm and desire of the new generations. “They are like a military structure in which you are the last. They don’t respect you. Tea humiliate And they don’t want to help you. They want you to learn and be better the hard way. They teach you to be thankful mistreatment that you are receiving All of that hardens your character and they think you should be grateful. If I went back in time, I wouldn’t go back. study medicine“.

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‘Waste time’ studying the MIR

After the tortuous years of university, this doctor stood up and decided that he would not follow the established path, refusing to access the MIR. “I wasted the best years of my life studying medicineSo I didn’t want to take the MIR exam. I think it was just going to take time and money away from me. It was not something with which I could improve my living conditions. It is not profitable in the long run all the sacrifice that I have to spend with four more years of humiliations and of guard shifts. It’s not worth it. My peace of mind weighs more, “he assures emphatically before affirming harshly:” I already made the mistake of study medicine and now I am doing something that I like and that is not so tiring”.

“I did not do the MIR because I already wasted the best years of my life studying Medicine. That was only going to take time and money away from me. It was not something with which to improve my living conditions”

Explain that by declining the option of MIR prepared to study two Master. In his case, he opted for the titles of Sports Medicine y Clinical Sexology and Couples Therapy. These formative skills have led him to obtain a job in which he confesses to being “quiet”.

Looking back, he points out that if he could go back in time, he would access another branch of the Health Sciences: “People are not in the habit of paying for their health, only for oral health. Maybe they would choose odontology because you get more pay and the hours are better,” he argues.

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