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Uh, there were many students that were in my class in medical school that complained about "not getting to suture". They were also the people that fit into categories 1-3 as listed before. What you are saying is that if someone had an interest in suturing, there is nothing available at your medical school for their students to suture on patients with the supervision of residents/staff? If THAT is true, that is just a poorly run/setup medical school and not the norm.
I am at a complete and total loss how you can translate "what the heck med school did you go to that you have such a poor opinion of medical school training" into, "Are you actually making the argument that an MS-3 gets to do almost everything on each rotation?" Talk about putting words into someone's mouth or simply being obtuse... You are claiming that it is impossible to suture at your institution or do "anything". I've been at several institutions, none of which were even remotely close to as restrictive. I have heard the same complaints at those institutions, always coming from people that were mostly expecting someone to hand hold them.
An MS-3 is not usually going to take the bull by the horns during a surgery and directly ask the surgery attending to suture to close. I'm pretty sure you're aware of that. It has nothing to do with liking/interest or not.