It's a shame that "just passing" doesn't really work out there in the real world. As I said, there is a reason that they did sacrifice about 10 or so years of their life. And you're missing my point. You're focusing on the part of the exams when that's not what I was referencing to at all.
And this is why people get so many misconceptions about doctors and the medical field. You can watch House, you can watch Scrubs, you can watch any TV show that you want, but nothing shown on TV would capture the real essence of actually being there in the emergency room trying to take care of your patient, with their life on the line with your blood pressure and stress levels literally doubling because you know that these things are on the line.
The problem is that you see this stuff in black and white; you refer to this stuff like it's hit-and-miss like it's High School. You should know this of all people, but grad school is a place where there's little room for error, especially the really tough med schools out there. My point is that there is absolutely no such thing as a doctor completely BS-ing his way through school, otherwise, he wouldn't be a doctor.
You'd realize that you'd have to be a doctor's apprentice and go through several tests because you can actually call yourself a doctor, right? You're deluded with this High school class rank crap because not only will it not be looked upon by your future employers...well guess what, it's hardly gonna be looked upon at all. Sorry to say. It's nice to have, but I don't care if you're #1 in you're class of 20,000, if you make a mistake, you're honestly no different than someone who graduated and still became a doctor at the bottom of their class.
The amount of effort that one puts in their med school education is absolutely critical, and it's through that effort that one can really determine who is a credible doctor or not. I'm not gonna deny that there are some doctors in the world that you would not know how in the heck they would get their Doctorate's or PhD for matter, but that's so far and few between that you can hardly ever count them.
You(apparently) think that people who graduate at the top of their class are perfect because they earned the beautiful name of "valedictorian" or that beautiful "John Smith graduated in the top 5% of his class" crap. Tell me Kura, if someone in the midst of dying of cancer, how in the world would class rank would ever so be relevant to saving their life? The focus on the matter is saving the person's life, not the choice of the doctor who either got a A or a B in Anatomy. That is insignificant and ridiculous.
I didn't mean to "belittle" you, but you did explode on me for little reason, and I find it offending and quite confusing that you would think that something as small as class size would play a part in life decisions. It's pretty, I agree, but it will hardly help you in the world out there.
By the way, my name is Derky. People can call me either or, it doesn't bother me.
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