•••quote:•••Originally posted by G3:
• •••quote:••• Dumb people can graduate near the top of their class if they work hard enough ••••-posted by Fah-Q
I have heard this theory several times and just don't understand the logic. How can you graduate at the top of your class and be dumb. Sure a person who is slower might have to work harder, but if they've masterd the work....and they've done it nominally more than their peers,how can they be dumb? And if they are slower, but workharder, I would rather them succed, than the more gifted student, who sloths through each goal.
-just my 3 cents.•••••It might be shocking for the average pre-med to hear but here goes: The vast majority of med school applicants would graduate from med school if they were accepted. Is med school hard? Sure it is. Is it nearly as difficult as its made out to be? Absolutely not.
G3...the problem I have with your post is the word "nominally." The difference between a hard worker and a slacker in med school is hardly nominal, IMHO. Despite all the hype and warnings, you can cram in med school and pass. Pass=MD is the first bit of knowledge they will teach you in med school. A student who works hard can kick the sh__ out of his less-than-motivated peers because of the above equation. I will say it again...passing in med school is not that difficult if you work hard. Students do fail out, but you must ask the question...why did they fail out? I would venture to say that 99% of those who fail out of med school do so because of a lack of effort, not because they lack the ability to memorize a course syllabus.
The key to the first 2 years of med school is this...know the important points the day of the test. You don't have to know them after the test or the day before the test, just during the test. In other words, CRAM!!! The key to the last 2 years of med school is this...stay as late as possible, act interested, and kiss a little bit of ass. If a monkey could follow these simple rules then I guarantee you that monkey would be AOA.
Pre-meds, med students, and docs would like to think that they are somehow intellectually superior to others just because they got are involved in medicine. The truth is that the average student/doctor is an overachiever. Hard work is a much more valuable commodity than intelligence. Imagine if you were a resdent/attending evaluating a student...would you rather give the A to a the guy who answered all of your trivia/pimp questions correctly but didn't help make your life easier, or would you give the A to the kid who was clueless but did all your scutwork for a month so you could go home earlier? That's what I thought.
I'm telling you...hard work=top student
I'm way too drunk to go on.