Keeping medical students merry
Editor - It is great to see that my fellow colleagues in Auckland are as happy and altruistic after several years of medical school as
when they first started.1 I wonder if that is
the consensus view of medical students in
the United Kingdom, where most students
graduate with a loan large enough to buy a
small house and subsequently end up working for the banks for the first few years after
graduation repaying back their loans.
The harsh reality of working with
patients, nurses and doctors has not even
dented the enjoyment of being a medical
student in Auckland. I wonder why this
place is so special - could it be their weather
or their ample diet of lamb? I think I should
be funded to go on a fact finding mission
to this place so I could pass on their
knowledge, thereby making most, if not all,
British medical students just like them.
Seau-Tak Cheung, final year medical student, Dundee University Medical School DD1 9SY
studentBMJ 2000;08:45-88 March ISSN 0966-6494
- Petrie KJ, White GR, Cameron LD, Collins JP. Photographic memory, money, and liposuction: survey of medical students' wish list. BMJ 1999;319:1593.5. (18.25 December.)
