Doctor- Itself means 'to teach'. Now a days I am beginning to understand what it takes to be a good teacher. It requires so many qualities which has to be acquired and earned. Some people have these skills inherent in them. Unlike the school teaching and college teaching, this is a profession where one train the junior to become like him. The junior is going to enjoy the same level of respect and expected to give the same services as given by the teacher. In a fact it can give a competition too.
There are things which we do due to fear of authority and some other things which we do due to the passion for it. The most important influencing factor for the teacher to teach, is the passion of the student for the subject. In medical profession the student has to take an extra effort to get useful information out of his teacher. Nothing comes for free. The student who take everything for granted is an irritating character for the teacher.
Another important factor is that the seniors always want their juniors to earn the knowledge. They want them to go through the same striving they went and learn things the hard way. Because early imparting of wisdom does not feel natural and right. But todays generation has got more easier ways of access to knowledge via media and internet. Even then the passion is required.
Although I feel that if someone has worked under me for a considerable time, and he does not know what he is supposed to know, that is my failure. At some point, someone has to strike a balance. A least responsible student with least passion for the subject and patient care can be a headache to the medical teacher. No one can blame him if he do not acquire what he needed to by the end of the course.
After all, the best compliment one can get in a profession, is when some one good in his field tells that he has been trained by you. So the bottom line is teaching is a good rewarding profession.
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