After two years of medical school, you start your clinical rotation without knowing anything about interaction with patients, no confidence in diagnosing their diseases, and no idea about what to do for any of the general chief complaints. You go through rounds and rounds of different medical specialities: internal medicine, emergency medicine, OB/GYN, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery. You will discover different people in each of the sub-specialities. You will draw closer to those people with personalities similar to you. If everything goes right, you will have an idea of what to do at the end of your third year of medical school, then choose the appropriate electives in your fourth year rounds. Then you will be prepare to apply for residency, knowing exactly where to apply to, and be somewhat prepared.
However, there are students who have no idea about the speciality that they will choose for the rest of their lives. The nervousness, the peer pressure, the importance of the decision, all accumulate to the hesitation. People are deciding between radiology and pathology, neurology and cardiology, and even between internal medicine and dermatology.
Due to the inexperience of an individual that has not gone through medical school just yet, I hope I do not have to face such difficult life determining question.
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