关于现代医学教育与医学生就业问题的反思
Learn for practice
On campus, there are a special group of students. They live an ascetic monk’s life. They are reading endless fat books in the classroom while other peers having a lot of fun seeing a film with friends. They stay at a frowzy dissecting room all morning facing fragmentary and sickening dead bodies while other peers sit in on a class and fall asleep in the cosy atmosphere. They are reciting hundreds of clinical cases all night long while other peers celebrating for the graduation in the corner. These ascetic monks are our medical students.
After 5 to 7 or 8 years hard work on campus and several years’ internship in hospital, these poor students are allowed to working in a hospital with a meager salary. They work day and night,warding round, making medical orders, writing and discussing cases, performing an operation, making death certificate, birth records, contact higher authorities, explaining this or that to patients knowing nothing, having this or that meetings like a white-collar——to name just a few. The only similarity between life in college and hospital is busyness, endless busyness. Thanks for those hard university time, doctors can bear enormous pressure in hospital.
In fact, the biggest challenge when a student is thrown into a hospital is not busy work. What makes us surprising and sad is that we don’t know the way to apply what we learn into practice. We know much about the ins and outs of a disease, because we were well trained in college, but we don’t know how to explain the disease to our patient, a lot of terms from our mouth making patients bored and doubtful. They may comment “this young doctor is just theoretical” afterwards. We learn a lot of