The dark side is: Expectations do not meet reality at all.
So you are a brilliant kid in school and scoring 95+ always came easy to you. You are a little too much sure of yourself for your own good.
You have seen doctors with hospitals earning money when they only saw you for like 5 minutes. You feel, “ Wow, this seems like a good career option”. Or you want a purpose in your life to help and uplift others. Or your parents wanted you to take science and you were just not that good in maths.
Anyhow, you enter the world of medical stream in your class 11th. You join a coaching center which claims to mass produce selections into government medical colleges. You attend your first few classes and things start to get a little uneasy. Never in your life before you have had difficulty solving questions but this just seems too tough. You are required to put in more hours to understand stuff and have more practice to get the questions right. Tests after tests and you are required to give your best. At certain points, you feel exhausted of all this but then you have the promise of a GOLDEN LIFE after you clear that damn entrance exam. So you somehow handle the pressure while many around you can’t. They stop trying after a little while but you continue. And the result comes! You scored a decent rank to get into a good medical college. The coaching institutes treat you like a celebrity. After all you are the shining star whose face they’ll put on posters for atleast 2–3 years. Your parents somehow love you more and the society is a tad jealous of you.
You enter college and you very soon realise that you are nothing compared to all the other seniors in this institute. You are not special anymore as in your own batch there are hundred more of you who have also achieved the same thing.
But in your eyes you are still that GOLDEN CHILD who is better than everyone else. So, you work harder to achieve more than the rest. But then in this one exam, you fail. How can that ever happen??? Now this is the point on which rest of your life depends. You either accept the failure, realise you are only human and move on. Or take it on your self esteem, declare yourself a complete failure and everything will go downhill from there. Every MBBS student has felt depressed one time or other. But then there are some who can’t take it. The fear of failure is their constant thought and in their mind they were supposed to be the shining star here as well. But they aren’t. Many try to find other ways of feeling happy(read alcohol and drugs). And for some even these can’t help and life becomes too much to bear.
And if you look closely at it, you’ll realise it’s only because it’s different than what you thought it would be.
The exams never stop.
Everyday you’ll feel like you know nothing.
Now
There are Many Dark Sides Of MBBS. First, you crack exam and get admission in a Big government medical college thinking you are going to become an awesome doctor that everyone looks up to, but soon reality strikes you
FIRST YEAR IS ONLY 9 MONTHS LONG and has a syllabus which is more than compared to your class 11 and 12.
ANATOMY is the biggest subject that i am sure all my fellow medicos and doctors will agree; it is not possible to learn in 9 months. It has huge syllabus which demands you to learn details of every bone,anatomy of brain, all viscera( body organs), relationship of each structure with another structure,draw lot of diagrams for histology, and many times professor will ask you to Redraw them. Along with it, you have PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY. We had to give three test every week in first year and teachers were strict.
Most of us pass, but we rarely feel confident in the subjects. We crammed a lot of things in a short span of time and most of us simply forget what we studied specially anatomy.
The entire distribution of the subjects in the course is flawed
a. 1st year has only 9 months with a huge syllabus
b. In 3rd year there are only 3 subjects which are actually short subjects like ENT and OPHTHALMOLOGY. Syllabus is shorter but time allotted is too longer
c. Final Year: Has four big subjects: Medicine,Surgery,Gynae@Obs and Pediatrics. Along with smaller subjects like Anesthesiology, Psychiatry, Radiology, Orthopedics, Dermatology. It is not possible to learn to so many subjects in one year
Some will argue and say final year subjects are being taught just after beginning of 2nd year, but in 2nd year we already have 4 new subjects to learn. We are hardly mature enough to understand the management of complex disorders since neither we know the pathology or pharmacology and have little knowledge of anatomy.
Mostly we go to Wards and see Patients but the Education System is such that it fails to teach us how to evaluate a patient. Most professors do not care about teaching in wards. You go to an operation theater to learn operation, but mostly it ends up being a selfie session so you can keep it as new DP and boast to your non Medico friends. When I was in 2nd year I saw Cholecystectomy ( removal of gall bladder) and Hernia repair and the surgeons were really good, describing us the steps. Since we had no understanding of the disease or surgery, most of the time I just nodded my head and agreed, but understood nothing
