The Pursuit Of Medical Knowledge Analysis

In the article The pursuit of medical knowledge and the potential consequences of the hidden curriculum by Barret Michaelec first year and second year preclinical medical students were interviewed in order to help determine how their pursuit for medical knowledge affected their perceptions and interactions with the world outside of medical school. The students commonly reported that their submergence in medicine affected their communication with others, relationships, and how they perceived their external lives.
This struggle the students encounter ties directly into Mary Shelly’s, Frankenstein, in a sense that both the alumni and Victor Frankenstein’s pursuit for knowledge presents them with unaccounted for difficulties. For the med students “their pursuit of medical knowledge, and the grueling nature of that pursuit, keeps them at a social, emotional, and even intellectual distance from those outside of medicine” (Michaelec 10). The same can be said for Victor Frankenstein, his pursuit for knowledge detached him from his sanity, his friends and family, and others who did not attribute his intelligence.
The students mentioned how their preclinical training minimized …show more content…
Statistical evidence could not be possible in this study due to the fact that it was conducted only in one medical school and only 10 students were interviewed. The students could have potentially had a selection bias since they were chosen at will oppose to at random. The argument could have been supported with more credible evidence to portray a stronger point. Additionally, the article did not provide an opposing side. There is no clear rebuttal that would state alternative sources of the communication-gap and knowledge gap experienced by the medical