Pursuing interests or causes outside medicine can help medical students foster a sense of identity and self-worth not defined by academic success, write Florence Wedmore and Charlotte Rose Being a medical student can feel really isolating. You’re passed from team to team like an unwanted birthday present. No one knows your name, and by the time you’ve found the toilets or a good place to store your backpack, you’re being shipped off to another placement, another team, another hospital. You went into medicine to make a difference but, five years in, the most helpful thing you’ve ever done was make someone a cup of tea (and even that caused some stress, after you heard the story of a student who brought a nil-by-mouth patient a chocolate bar before surgery). At age 18, when you imagined the next five years, you thought that you’d be learning how to save lives and making friends, all the while knowing exactly where you were headed and who you wanted to be. The reality is a little different: for most of medical school you’re still learning, so contributing to a team in any meaningful way can feel impossible. On the wards …

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在医学院丢失身份信息？尝试做一些不同的事情

追求医学以外的兴趣或事业可以帮助医学生培养一种认同感和自我价值感，而这种认同感和自我价值感不受学业成功的影响，Florence Wedmore 和 Charlotte Rose 写道作为一名医学生会感到真正的孤立。你就像一个不受欢迎的生日礼物一样从一个团队传到另一个团队。没有人知道你的名字，当你找到厕所或存放背包的好地方时，你将被转移到另一个地方、另一个团队、另一家医院。你学医是为了有所作为，但五年后，你做过的最有帮助的事情就是给别人泡了一杯茶（在你听到一个学生带来零钱的故事后，这甚至造成了一些压力） -手术前给患者口服巧克力棒）。18岁时，当你想象未来五年时，你以为你会学习如何拯救生命和结交朋友，同时清楚地知道你要去哪里以及你想成为谁。现实情况有点不同：对于大部分医学院而言，你仍在学习，因此以任何有意义的方式为团队做出贡献感觉是不可能的。在病房……