2 Aug 2012

Greatness

Our SSM group led by KH had the honour to have lunch with two professors from Paediatrics in a very afternoon, to celebrating our publication in HKMJ.

We actually shared a lot of funny past of ourselves, most of them related to education. With education, our young professor SL disclosed his life as medical students in other CU located in UK.

We talked about the trend of elite students being admitted to medical schools. "In my CU, the students aim for a pass, saying that 'Anything more than a pass is a waste.' The school is undoubted overrated with the attitude as such. But then they still managed to get the best students the UK, and the rest of the world!" Our young professor said.

He may be puzzled about the attitude, but the truth is that we never know how much to pass and many people will still try their best to prepare. Of course, failure will be ensured if someone does not prepare enough for the pass.

We talked about the sister school on the other side of harbor. "Of course we are a better medical school because I am involved in the teaching!" He said. "Perhaps they are more systematic in answering clinical questions, it is not what how excellent they do in the examination, but what they do that define." Just a modified quotation from Batman.

We come back to our CU. "Previously we have admitted a young girl with outstanding public exam performance, how is she?" He apparently has not gotten update a lot from the news, as we all know, the phoenix has gone from the fire.

One of us mentioned. "That's actually good for her overall. With the first encountering of failure, she will only learn truly how to fly." Do you remember the quotation from Rocky? "It ain’t about how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward."

Actually there are not a lot to know this.

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