Easy, Opinion-Based Question.

[smitt]

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Hello all. Long time viewer, first time poster.

How much of getting into and succeding in medical school and a medical career do you feel is intelligence versus dedication and hard-work?

For example, 50% intelligence and 50% hard-work or 20% intelligence and 80% hard-work.

My impression so far has been that it is mostly hard-work and that while some majors take some intelligence to do well in (math, physics, and engineering spring to mind), but that the pre-reqs are mostly about hard-work.

I know this is highly subjective, but I just want your personal opinion.

Thank you very much

 

[tohsimas135]

This is 10% luck, 20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure, 50% pain
And 100% reason to remember the name

 

[Cleavername]

50% luck, 50% w/e else u want it to be.

 

[smitt]

I guess this was a silly question.

 

[DrYoda]

There will be a different ratio for different people.

Some people power themselves through by working ridiculously hard.

Some people don't work all that hard but have an awesome memory.

Most are somewhere in-between.



Edit: that's mostly for premed/pre-clinical med school. While it still holds true to a degree later, being a slacker is going to affect you more in the 2nd half of med school and residency (in the form of poor evaluations).

 

[Pons Asinorum]

I guess this was a silly question.

It was. Do you think that you're the first person to pose this question? There's a long, recent thread in the Allo forum about this same thing. If you would have searched, you would have found dozens of threads discussing the same thing. There is nothing new to add to those discussions.

 

[smitt]

Burned. Sorry. I would delete the thread but I don't have the power.
Thank you DrYoda Cleavername for your help.

Float on, thread. Float on.

 

[Parts Unknown]

How much of getting into and succeding in medical school and a medical career do you feel is intelligence versus dedication and hard-work?

I'd say you 100% need something better to think about.

 

[1nquiry]

95% hard work, 5% intelligence. After a certain point, it doesn't matter how smart you are.

 

[PremedGunner]

you definately need to have some intelligence, but once youre above the intelligence threshold, its all about hard work. intelligence still helps though of course. also, being dedicated enough to get a 4.0 helps.

 

[Cleavername]

95% hard work, 5% intelligence. After a certain point, it doesn't matter how smart you are.

hard work is no where near that much.

 

[EpicBearMan]

This is 10% luck, 20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure, 50% pain

The answer we all knew was coming when we saw the 3rd line of OP's post.