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Originally Posted by Thirdfox
I had been operating on the assumption that this forum was created to provide information to students who are interested in/studying medicine.
When the people who are going to be future doctors become so competitive that they would not help fellow colleagues I believe that would be a dark day for medicine.
In the end, if you are prepared I had assumed you would get the offer.
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You have to realise that in the end all medics are going to compete against each other and do whatever it takes to get ahead of their competition. I'm now a final year medic and the things that I've seen going on at medical school have really been an eye opener.
We all recently had to aplly for our jobs through the infamous MDAP system and friends who I had also always helped previously suddenly decided to become competitive and not offer any help or advice or ven proof reading of our personal statement. It is quite sad that this happens in medicine but having so many high achieving academics in one place seems to foster this environment.
I don't mean to sound negative, but you have to accept that it is not all noble to bbe a medic. It's just life. After all people compete ina ll walks of life, so why not medicine?