The diversity of School of Medicine in terms of its students and their undergrad courses make it more worthwhile for we also learn from one another. I have classmates from different sciences. To name a few, Biology, Medical Technology, Psychology, Pharmacy, Public Health and even Nutrition. But what one of our mentors in Internal Medicine have said, it does not really matter what undergrad course you may have, for it just only contributes 10% to your total stay in the School of Medicine. What is important is for you to learn and acquire the knowledge being imparted to you by your books and mentors, you are all equal in that sense. But still be glad that you have these people with you, your classmates who will be your friends/colleagues, whom aside from our mentors, can contribute to the knowledge that you are still acquiring and to that which you have already known.
I have also understood why we have to get through undergrad first prior entering Medical school. One of our mentors in Pediatrics said that, it is for our maturity, emotionally, physically and intellectualy. Entering in this School would entail a healthy holistic disposition of a person because Medicine will truly test everything about what is within us – in everyday of our life. Now, I have attested to it and what she had said is all true since that experiences, attitude and discipline that I had from my undergrad both inside the classroom, from our clinical instructors and through our exposures in the community and hospitals helped me a lot and provided me with principles and personal values I still am applying in Medicine.
So far, I have been enjoying Medicine II since the subjects that we have are in someways the sme subjects we had during my undergrad in Nursing such as Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Medicine, Surgery, Health Ethics (Bioethics) and Preventive Medicine (Community Health/Biostatistics). But the subjects that excites me more are the ones really new to me such as Pathology and Microbiology (which are Medtech subjects) but gives more interest to me. The ones we have today are not the same of the ones we had in our undergrad since they are way deeper, more molecular, more complex and more complicated than how they used to be; but it gives me comfort that they still have been part of our curriculum. There are advantages and disadvantages such that there are some information which we have to unlearn and for the most part, we have to still add to our bank of information.
So the goal really is to read and read and read for us to learn what we have to so that in the future, when we are faced again with our patients, we are more knowledgeable, more adept to interacting with them with the skills I have acquired and more competence with compassion to deal with them, in sickness and in health.
