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Justin, just so you know. If a doctor made it with "just C's" in medical school you can bet your butt he knows his stuff. He is still in the top 0.1% in the nation. People don't just go to medical school. First they go through 4 years of college (or equivalant). They had to have made almost straight A's through that to be considered. These are not normal college classes, but are in the hard core sciences like Biology, Chemistry, Calculus, Organic Chemistry, etc.
Then, if their grades are high enough, they take an all day test called the MCAT that covers Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Writing, and logic/comprehension. If they score at the top of the heap on that (which only people with college degrees going to medical school take) they apply to medical school and if they are lucky get interviews to those schools. Those schools pick the interviews from the applicants (the year I came here there were 1200-1400 or so applications for 60 spots) so just getting an interview is a huge honor.
Then they go through 4 years of medical school (which is aptly described as trying to get a drink of water from an open fire hydrant). This is because enough material is covered each DAY in each class that would fill an entire WEEKS worth of material in college for each class.
Now just passing with a C in those courses isn't enough because the last two years is all clinical rotations where the student doctor is graded by attending physicians, plus they have to pass Step I and Step II of the United States Medical Liscensing exam.
Then they graduate and have MD by their name but they still have to do residency, which ranges anywhere from 3 years for Family Medicine to 5 years for General Surgery and longer with fellowships etc.
A person is more likely to play professional football than to make it to med school, let alone actually pass because none of them are shy about failing folks. Yep, that doctor that just passed with C's from an American medical school is still going to be more than competent. He's already been top of his class in high school, and college, and passed an almost impossible amount of material in Medical school as well as passing the USMLE and he completed his residency. (Character is a whole different issue, though the process tends to weed out most of the bad apples before they are through).
Vet school may not be quite there, but I bet it is similar.
Hope I answered your question about doctors that "just made C's".
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