6 Myths about studying medicine

If you're a medical student, today we deny them some myths about studying this race, do you think are true or rather are true about this race

1. You have to be a nerd, to study medicine

Error! medicine like most races, requires constant discipline, just be smart and tidy will help you study this race. Like all races, there are materials that are often harder, put more effort into these without leaving the rest of the field and see that everything will be better than you expect.

2. To study all day, every day

Guys Organization, in life there is time for everything. In fact many medical students are studying motto for the week and weekends to rest them or leave parties. You have to allocate your time appropriately prioritizing responsibilities

3. The medicine is studied lonesome

! Nope !, do not think you'll be smarter if you study alone, all subjects, materials and cases of a medical career, in fact the study group is one of the best things you can do if you want to do well in subjects, reminiscent After a profession where you'll constantly be discussing cases with colleagues, so you better start practicing starting now

4. The professors of medicine are the hardest

This is a myth not only in medicine, but in any career, since there will always be around: very strict teachers and others who are less so. The important thing a teacher is not its severity, but their knowledge and ability that has to be transmitted. Take advantage of their good teachers and not complain about its severity.

5. Patients come first

Perhaps this is one of the most wrong things taught in medical schools, but not implement it at all. Remember that besides being future doctors also have a life outside the hospital where you're making procedure. So if your patient is not seriously ill, you can leave this care nurses and go spend time with your family in peace. Sometimes the best professionals are not the marauding late at night in a hospital "just in case something goes" if not those who know how to organize their time in the best way.

6. Medicine is a business or "You'll be a millionaire"

This is going to hear a lot while you're studying medicine. First for the medicine is a business should be governed by competition, marketing, advertising, profit, investment, capital and other. And the reality is that medicine depends on charity, service, humility and patient-centered care. Besides the Hippocratic Oath clearly supports the idea that doctors should not advertise and it is due to his profession. Not all become millionaires, mainly because most begin working in public hospitals, and public health is not the best in most countries of Latin America.