Ok but now you're trivializing said qualities. Being hard-working, persistent, organized, and responsible are desirable qualities for being a hair stylist, clergyman, government official, astronaut, bounty hunter, etc. So in this regard, yes of course there must be such overlap.I agree that high standardized exam scores don’t necessarily translate into being a good resident, but wouldn’t being hard-working, persistent, organized and responsible be desirable qualities both for students and workers in pretty much any field? I mean, I think I understand what you’re saying, and I’m sure doing well in residency takes more than acing multiple choice tests and being a smooth schmoozer with your evaluating attendings (which is apparently the leading factor in clinical grading at my school), but I believe there is also a substantial overlap in personal qualities between a good resident and a good student.
Albert Einstein said "education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." That's a little dramatic, but medical school, in my view, is not liberated from the subtle but pervasive hand of the post-Enlightenment habitus: a display case of carefully ordered and boxed specimens in its own right (in this case, you're the specimen). The problem is that the academy, the military barracks, the prison, the hospital...they all stop at the campus edge, and the world beyond just isn't so neat and satisfying. This is what I have found myself unlearning in residency, and I hope to spend the rest of my life and career unlearning.