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To the Editor: Our mentoring program at the University of Wisconsin is a time for our third-year medical students to present cases and to discuss their internal-medicine ward experiences. One day, my students seemed depressed.

"It's demoralizing," they said. "The attendings know everything. How can we ever learn that much? Each day we go home feeling like failures."

A thought occurred to me. "Look," I said. "Let's draw a curve of how much everybody knows." I drew a graph (Figure 1). "Here is a gastroenterologist. She or he knows a lot about this field, so this person's bar . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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