Med school these days is just teaching for the big, multiple-choice board exams. These exams are basically word-association games. The amount of material expected to be covered over a four year period is way too much to expect any meaningful thought on the topics, just cram as hard as you can to pass the next test then forget it while you cram for the next module. The conventional schooling period is only two years. Then you have clinicals where you do a bunch of shit-work while cramming for the next big board exam as well as end-of-rotation exams in all the various specialties. Also, an alarmingly high number of students have never held a job, all they have for experience are school and whatever application padding bullshit they managed to fit in between semesters. These people come out and their first job ever is doctor. The whole system is ridiculous.