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Residency is one of the most idiotic systems ever devised. It has evolved into essentially bragging rights for most hours and profit margins rather than useful training. Kinda like partnership-track lawyers with billable hours.
My grad school advisor took sabbatical one year and did two years of med school curriculum "just for fun." If you can memorize, it is pretty easy. The issue is that solving problems has little to do with memorization, and hence why you have some pretty poor clinicians out there. I did a little clinical coursework during my postdoc for grins and found the process of diagnoses to be incredibly interesting. I'd actually consider doing med school at 48, but as Moses said, no way I'd go through residency...just like having another baby, I'm too old for that crap.
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