This is so sad. 11 years? You have have read, and re-read, every textbook for your classes like 4 times over in that period of time. It always astonishes me to see someone invest so much time in cheating, when it would take the same or less time to just do the damn work. What is worse, what happens when they have a patient and they don't know what to do because they cheated on that part of the exam? Let them die or become disabled? So very very sad.
It’s a phenomenon in medical school. Some people just can’t get through the exams. You can’t just read the textbooks, it isn’t that easy. And anyway, the volume of facts is enormous..
It happens because people aren’t coached or mentored at all, and are too ashamed to ask for help. With proper guidance and encouragement, and hard work, anyone can pass.
Poor patient outcomes aren’t strongly linked to poor learning of exam material. It is true that the sort of person who doesn’t take care to do well on exams also may not take care of patients. This isn’t because they don’t learn the material, it is because they aren’t the sort of person who can commit to being good at medicine (for which there may be valid reasons).
>It always astonishes me to see someone invest so much time in cheating, when it would take the same or less time to just do the damn work.
There is another factor people tend to forget: cheating is exciting and almost fun in a way.
Reading a book for hours with no end in sight? Boring. Learning morse code and making a little radio equipped foot pedal? Now that's something I'd do in my free time.
During covid I wrote a plugin that hooked into the proctoring site, undid the randomization on the ordering of the multiple choice questions and put a little dot for every answer by another user of my plugin taking the tests. This was to alliviate the chaos of 10 people talking over eachother in a teamspeak, asking for the parts they don't know. It was infinitely more rewarding than learning about graph theory.
