S GROWTH CURVE
In business, the S growth curve is divided into four stages:
The slow growth, rapid growth phase, late-stage slow growth and stationary
phase. It helps business analytics and statisticians assess the development of
the company.
Likewise, the S growth curve in career development is divided
into three stages: aspiring, driving and arriving. Each with its own significance in terms of choosing a career and how to work on achieving it.
However, let me now walk you through the usage of the S growth
curve in med school.
As freshers, the medical college
is new and astonishing and makes first year students anxiously excited! Much
like feeling butterflies and bugs in the stomach at the same time! It is the
time to explore and learn and obviously enjoy the first milestone towards
becoming a good doctor. It is a slow start. It provides them with the basics like
anatomy, physiology and biochemistry enabling them to learn about the structure
of the human body, the chemical reactions and the physiological processes which
keeps the body working tirelessly.
The second-year students, enter
the next milestone where along with learning pharmacology, pathology and
microbiology are exposed to the hospital environment. It is a slight modification
of the first-year syllabus where the students learn the pathology in the
physiological and structural functions of the human body, what is causing them
and how to correct it. The hospital posting provides insight into the patient’s
life on how a particular diagnosis affects them physically and emotionally and
how the doctors and nurses help them through it. This is basically a stage of
inexperience where the students learn through doctors and mentors helping them.
There is a slight launch in the graph at this stage.
STAGE 2
The third- and fourth-year
students come under this stage of the curve where they are almost experienced
and are close to mastering the art of becoming a good physician. This is an
exponential phase where they continue
to master and grow based on their
previous knowledge and experience as well as with the current inputs provided
by their mentors.
STAGE 3
Interns and medical practitioners
are placed here. While they are almost close to mastering the delicate art of a doctor, they
must be equally open and consistent in learning and developing their skills in
order to stay on track with the current technologies and development. At this
point, individuals must learn to constantly evaluate and improve themselves and
stay in the race. The consistency explains the flat line in the graph.
These points on the S-curve have the potential to change the
direction of our lives, as we are constantly faced with life’s up and down
swings.
Growth and development are not always an upward motion. Keeping this in mind, there are certain inflection points at each curve of the graph signifying unpredictable positive or negative changes in our lives. Needless to worry, these checkpoints give us the opportunity to correct them and return back in time to our course.
Learning is constant in everybody’s life. Given that the medical
field is constantly expanding, it is very much important to keep learning consistent
in a healthcare worker’s agenda so that they don’t miss out on recent
development and advances. That’s why one significant attribute of an Indian Medical
Graduate (IMG) according to the National Medical Commission (NMC) is to be a “Life
Long Learner”.
Thus, this S growth curve is a reminder to stay focussed and
continue developing despite the several shortcomings in terms of personal and professional
life in a medical school and emerge as a successful Indian Medical Graduate.
Sources:
1.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/s-curve-personal-growth-development-enoma-ojo
3.
https://maybusch.com/understanding-career-path-s-curve/
4.
https://www.rocketsource.com/cx-terms/s-curve-of-growth/
5.
https://www.nmc.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AETCOM_book.pdf
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