You could say that … but … it’s a process Drawing blood and starting IVs teaches you to gain confidence doing procedures Doing procedures on unwilling and uncooperative patients teaches you psychological tricks Going all over the hospital teaches you who works in the hospital and what they do - they might even get to know you and teach you a few things As I already mentioned. Spending all that time with the patient is the real trick. Seeing the course of the illness first hand over 36 hours … There’s some humility to learn in all that too … 😉 I won’t say it’s all necessary But you also can’t know what is or isn’t necessary And I turned out to be a pretty OK doctor. And as much as I hated it … that’s not what I regret.