Would CCC students from this current A-level intake survive medical school if they were to enter this September?
I have been a little annoyed by couple of people recently who claimed that medical school difficulty is really just “CCC” level but the entry requirement is massively inflated due to its popularity (and privileged people etc etc).
- some old consultant talking to a nursing colleague whose kid is doing A-levels (and not doing very well, got rejected by medical school and predicted BBB), claiming the above.
- Again some renal consultant on a Facebook group because some influencer claiming that other professions can’t replace doctors because they won’t be able to pass medical school anyway (another extreme example that rubs some people the wrong way to begin with).
I mean yes you’re showing your own humility and virtue signal and all that to gain some wider public approval.
But must you sink that low to degrade your whole profession and all the effort you put in to get to where you are??
I remember some nurses say you me “that oh your family must be rich for you to go to medical school” and that “you must have got a lot of extra tutoring outside of school which is expensive”.
No! I came from a very disadvantaged background, fractured family, working 3 evening a week from the age of 16 to survive.
“Oh really”, change the subject.
I know medicine tend to select for people-pleasing type of people. But really, please have some self-respect and give credit to your own hard work.
We have sunk so far, and a lot of it is due to this kind of mentality.
Bonus - ran into some HCA doing nursing associate thing, and she thought that if she did MSc is paediatric nursing she would be equivalent to a paediatric consultant, and that anaesthetists are ODPs. She was horrified when I told her that she needs to go to medical school to be paediatric consultant.
Further question:
Those who think it’s not that hard, medical school is easy, if you sincerely think that, do you think we’re overpaid then?