Published: September 11, 2018
Every year I meet aspiring doctors who want advice about studying medicine. Here is what I tell them
Each January in the midst of the glorious Australian summer, I interrupt a holiday with my children to undertake a ritual that began well before they were born. For nearly 20 years, I have been interviewing students who aspire to study medicine at my alma mater.
I started off thinking of it as a matter of loyalty to a university that had provided me with six years of a fine, taxpayer-funded medical education, but some years later it dawned on me that to meet some of the thousands of students hungry to study medicine each year was in fact a unique opportunity for me to meditate on what it means to be a doctor.
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