They do not wash out their first semester!
Students come to college having not mastered percentages, fractions and decimals. If you think that is an exaggeration, it’s not. I’ve dealt with a student at a well known medical school who somehow missed those topics.
For the rest of my Life I’ll not be seen by Medicos under 50 y.o.
“...percentages, fractions and decimals...” are not late Elementary School Topics?
My doctors are an Indian and a Paki educated in their homeland.
They are good at math.
Math is like a language to them.
English not so much.
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That is pretty bad if such students pass their classes.
As for your med student, he would probably kill people with lethal dosages of drugs ordered.