Lawyer&Mom wrote:Three days of testing in France? Is this to be qualified as a French doctor? Do you already do the testing to be qualified as a Czech doctor, or not is that not required? Explain! This is so interesting.
My Czech testing is finished, that's what was mentioned at the beginning of this log. I am just waiting to be officially given my diploma. I am a doctor with the right to apply for any beginning doctor job in this country, and sign up for the relevant education program (=the chosen circle of hell) for that specialisation. If only I wanted one, which is not the case. They'd also take me in a few other countries without any huge exam, if I started normal job hunting. What job, that would depend, I don't have any illusions about the best German hospitals just waiting for me
In France, and some other countries, there is a sorting exam. The French one takes three days (and the whole preparation and the studies centered around it are a huge deal). Depending on the results, the best people take their pick from a long list, then everybody else from what is left. Until the last one. Which is likely to be me, as I had been wasting so much time on the Czech exams, which are full of useless lists of irrelevant stuff, with some obsolete bits, and no practical application (which is extremely important in the French exams), and also dealing with too much other stuff. My preparation was far from ideal. And I was even making stupid mistakes in the exam, like crossing the right answer and then second guessing and checking a complete nonsense instead. But it is possible to take a definitely not my dream job, use it as experience (which I need a lot!), prepare in the free time (which is gonna be hard, but subjectively still easier than during my studies), and retake the exam.
And should I find out I don't like medicine at all and it is not just the fault of the healthcare system in my country and the horrible faculty (my Erasmus in France was basically the only time, at which I truly enjoyed medicine and thought it could be a good future), I can try something else. There are tons of things to do outside of medicine. I definitely do not regret having "wasted" a lot of time on my languages instead of being focused 100% just on medicine.
The only thing I regret in this area is not having taken more language exams and learnt at least German properly, while I had the time. I could have been much more advanced by now. 
A couple of my friends used to teach A&P, which is how we here abbreviate Anatomy and Physiology, and getting through that in itself is a major accomplishment, it seems to me. But you have done the whole nine yards, as we say. I mean, you yourself often tell people what they have done in language studies is "awesome." And it is true, what some language learners do, including yourself, is awesome. But your becoming a doctor is also equally awesome. I don't know what else to say. 
