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You do not need to be a genius in order to become a good doctor but you do need to be determined to succeed. There is a wealth of information and facts which would have to be assimilated by your brain even before you became a second-year medical student. It is often said that a well educated monkey can make it through first-year but that second-year weeds out the weak and third-year kills off the softies.
In the first year at medical school, students are still imagining themselves as potential Emergency Room film stars in the making who need only to learn how to look like doctors for everyone to begin to take them seriously and allow them to act like real doctors with real responsibilities.

There would be very little time for parties in the first few years of university if you wished to survive and be allowed to continue your studies. First year students usually report that they were shocked not only by the work load but by the fact that they were generally left to their own devices and no high school prefect or principal bothered to egg them on or chastise them when they did not pitch up for classes. If you are to make it as a doctor, you would really have to put your shoulder to the wheel and study harder than you have ever studied before.

Established doctors often mention that their first sight of blood, gore, vomit or burns nearly put them off continuing as medical students but they also agree that, with a bit of effort, they all managed to overcome this and were able to look more objectively on sights that would make another faint. They also talk, with a special light in their eyes, of their first baby - almost as if they themselves had personally given birth. Not every student finds surgery fascinating, there are some who wish to graduate to a more general practice; some who enjoy the excitement of emergency work, some wish to become specialists like paediatricians, gynaecologists and the like.

Some want to be involved only with matters concerning the skin, heart, lungs etc. There are many choices available and if office hours appeal to you, you can forge your destiny in that direction.

There are no specific types of people who enter the medical profession. All you need is a burning desire to become a doctor and the will to carry out the steps that will lead you to the fulfilment and achievement of your dream.

All specialists have to first qualify as doctors before they can choose to enter a specific field such as Orthopaedic Surgeon, Paediatrician and so on.

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