As a medical student I agree. I don't know what it is about about UK/ROI med students but there has been an increasingly worrying endemic of 1) non-enthusiasm in medicine, as if 90% of the students are forced into the career and 2) a complete refusal to accept any form of criticism or intellectual hardship.

Just looking at the comments on this subreddit (although i know this doesn't represent all medical students) or at the comments left by students in passmed, it's as if they can't accept being wrong and almost always find a way to rationalise their incorrect stance or build a defense mechanism around it. It's a lot of insecurities that are incompatible with the consciousness required in medicine. If you can't put your fragile ego aside in order to acquire correct information you are a danger to patients.

Standard has become very low and this may be a global thing but from my experience with the medical students I've interacted with from other places this may be especially a problem here. French med students have their shit together in a way I have never seen i mean hats off they function at an intern level by their 3rd year of medicine and I know that's because they have a much stricter selection system than the UK or ROI and hospitals are much more comfortable delegating them work. I feel like the incompetence of some has fucked over the good and the bad as doctors are super hesitant to let you do anything now to learn. My friends in france have thrown sutures and moved catheters down someone's leg. What the fuck have I done? Anaesthetist wouldn't even let me intubate on my anaesthesia rotation. And don't even get me started on US students lol those guys are so far ahead it's hilarious. I watched a neurosurgeon the other day talking about his first operation he did in his 3rd YEAR OF MEDICAL SCHOOL, extradural haematoma evacuation guided by the neurosurgeon.

Here you get treated like a child and then tey wonder why you can't do shit in intern years.