I still remember the first day of my medical college, first couple of hours of theoretical class and then all students shifting from lecture hall to the dissection hall. This is the hall where you first time see formalinized dead bodies and you are going to dissect them piece by piece all the year till you see the bones. Many of us might have never seen a corpse till that day. Then came the first year of anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. If someone asks me the clinical symptoms of typhoid, malaria or lung cancer then I can cook something anytime but I can’t cook anything about origin and insertion of a specific muscle, I can’t cook the oxygen dissociation curve or Kreb’s cycle.
So compared to final year subject, these subjects are surely tough and you need to mug them up. Then comes the second year i.e. pharmacology, pathology, microbiology; still you keep on mugging them up. By the…