We know that you will always have a neat appearance and a pleasant personality. You will be very compassionate to all your patients and coworkers, and you will always be willing and ready to learn. It has been our experience that all students know this is expected of them. However, there is one important caveat which is often not addressed in medical education. It is as much one's responsibility to know her limitations as it is to know about treating her patients.
Nobody knows everything.
On the other hand, I am not suggesting that you turn off your brain before answering a question to which you perhaps think you do not know the answer. However, you may think for just a second that you had tubes put in when you were a child and that all of your nephews and nieces have been to see the local otolaryngologist and that none of these people have had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Therefore, you might surmise that otitis media is more common than Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and you would be correct. Thus, if you are asked what percentage of kidney stones is visible on a plain radiograph, you might think to yourself that most kidney stones are composed of calcium which should be radiopaque. But since you are asked the question, obviously not all kidney stones are radiopaque.