Friday, August 26, 2011

Important

We were silent for a moment.

WY, who was also in the car, suddenly said, "Is it all that important to admit students with 8 or 9 distinctions in the HKCEE?"

"Of course not. You should never look down upon someone who only gets 6A." I chuckled.

"No. You don't really need a very high IQ to get through medical education. It is actually more likely that those crème de la crème are pretty dumb; they are just good at book work - or, what we call <高分低能>." LS added.

"Looking at some of our own graduates, as well as some from our sister faculty, that's probably the case." One of us said.

"Once again it boils down to the question of ourselves," JW said, "As long as we are admitting reasonable - though not necessarily exceptionally high-flying - students, how good a doctor they become really depends on the medical school."

I could not agree more.

1 comment:

TW said...

Agree, accepting more people with good attitude who treasure their opportunity I think is more important. Mature students and second degreer would be a good source too. Enough for the princes and princesses.