Your last subheading stuck with me
Nothing replaces education and active engagement in the treatment of data that affects your life.
It's quite interesting that we as medical students are not thaught to properly do a critial appraisal of the papers we are building our general guidelines from. Ofcourse there are whole institutions in place that do just that. It's sad to see there is not quite a great course on it during the whole bachelors.
Thanks for this post @ertwro , it made me rethink our current curriculum quite a bit.
If you get into research you'll find that is almost ludicrous how poor are math skills even among specialists. An advice for anyone currently in Med school is:
"learn R and Python FOR DEAR LIFE" and engage in research.
Even if you go into becoming a surgeon (I have nothing against surgeons, just saying) It will improve your appraisal of studies for the future that's coming.
Just checked your pictures, they are pretty cool.