There’s really not so much in medicine you can teach yourself outside of the second half of medical school and residency. That is the real training — on the job

There’s really not so much in medicine you can teach yourself outside of the second half of medical school and residency. That is the real training — on the job. Sure you can get a head start on some preclinical subjects or may study them as part of an undergrad, but that isn’t the “hard” part. You simply can’t teach yourself to be a doctor, since the job is so intimately tied to a complex setting you must participate in, and there’s no Linux kernel or GitHub equivalent.