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Look, I don't plan on going into GP either so I'm certainly not here to recruit anyone into general practice (or any other specialty
). All I'm saying is that until you've actually worked in an environment and carried the responsibility which goes with it, you can't realistically claim to like or dislike it.
It's a good thing to have interests and ambitions early on, and perhaps you really would make an excellent hospital physician one day - I'm just saying it's good to keep an open mind and not pigeonhole yourself early on. Working in the hospital environment is very different to studying in it as a med student or doing work experience in it, which is one reason why a lot of medical students who are set on hospital specialties start work and decide actually they are far happier and more successful in the community (which doesn't necessarily mean GP by the way).
We've all seen it before, so we're just trying to help you understand so you don't come off as yet another naive applicant in your interview.
It's not the same. We do learn a lot more about medical science and clinical medicine than nurses do. But that's because they're busy learning nursing (something I have next to no academic or practical knowledge of).
The interviewers just want to see that you're answering the question based on evidence which goes beyond TV tropes of doctors and nurses i.e.:
"Doctors are in charge" - yes, of other doctors (to an extent) - not anyone else.
"Doctors know more" - yes, our university education and postgraduate education is longer and more in depth than a nursing degree, so we do know more about clinical medicine, but this is self-evident. You're basically stating the obvious by saying that doctors know more about doctoring than a non-doctor. But that's not to say that a nurse
can't gain further education or knowledge in his or her chosen field.
You're not incorrect in what you're saying, it's more the technique of presenting it at the interview so it doesn't come off as very black and white "doctors are x and nurses are y". Just keep bringing it back to what you saw on your work experience and why that appeals to you as an individual, whilst stating that you're aware that both roles allow for lots of further education.