What is the biggest challenge faced during internship in hospitals?

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One of the biggest challenges faced during internship is to apply theory knowledge to real-life practice. Many interns know the concepts but feel unsure when applying them to the patients. While many interns have good understanding of diseases, drugs, from textbooks but fail to apply them in real life. Rarely any real patient shows the textbook signs, which can be overwhelming for interns’ decision making.

In addition to that, long working hours, communication with nurses, patients, physician, requires clarity, sound and professionalism. The constant fear of making mistakes, especially when patient safety is involved it adds self-doubt and increase stress.

However, with time, things do improve. Gainly confidence by actively seeking answers, asking frequent questions, and gaining exposure, will gradually increase confidence. Internship is an important learning phase, where we can learn to apply knowledge from individuals’ experience.

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Applying textbook knowledge to real patients is challenging and the fear of making mistakes is real. With exposure, guidance and time, confidence gradually builds up and internship truly shapes us into better professionals.

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Very relatable. Many interns know the theory but struggle to apply it to real patients, who rarely present like textbooks describe. With exposure, asking questions, and learning from experience, confidence gradually builds, making internship a key bridge between theory and practice.

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Relatable!

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Internship bridges the gap between knowing medicine and practicing it, turning uncertainty into confidence through experience