Wednesday, October 11, 2017

UG vs PG medical student

UG : Undergraduate medical student, ergo is doing his MBBS

PG : completed MBBS and now doing MS or MD

The difference is that, UG sees patients horizontally and PG sees patients both horizontally and vertically.

UG sees ample number of patients but he usually makes contact with a particular patient only once during the patients treatment course.
Thus, he can decipher the clinical signs seen in the present.

When a PG gets to follow up a patient, he knows what was his history. Many a times, you many even get to hear an anecdote about that patient
( woh patient jo file bhul Gaya tha pichale Baar..... Or ... One who had troubled a lot).
The PG knows the course of the disease better by following up with patients. And this also gives him a sense of worthiness that he is actually making a difference in someone's life when he sees patients getting better and go home.

The PG who also has empathy develops a third dimension of connect with the patient and gets totally immersed in the 3D world of health care around himself which is full of heart warming stories of doctor-patient relations.

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