I am a danish medical student currently 1/4 into the danish MD degree. It should be noted that the danish MD program is quite different from the US by beginning straight after highschool, and it contains a preclinical undergraduate part ( 3 years) and a clinical graduate part ( 3 years).
so far i have received 2 As in cell biology and biophysics ( excitable cells) and in genetics and unfrotunately only a B in gross anatomy, which i thought was very, very hard. ( Also B in ehalth psychology, but not the most improtant of course). I guess this is okay, but it is early in the program and those marks are nothing special.
Entry to medical school is very competetive and requires a highschool GPA of what is equavalent to 3,75. I received a GPA of 4+ in high school ( there are bonuses for starting university quick which allows you to multiply your gpa with some quotient, which is how a gpa higher than the highest mark is achievable) but as we know, this does not at all correlate to any kind of intelligence, since high school is so, so easy. I basically played away my HS with world of warcraft and graduated with a satisfactory result anyway, so this is irrelevant.
I have browsed the forums and it seems that many of you have vastly superior iqs to 99,9% of the populaiton, with most people stating 140+ as it was nothing, with a quite many of you boasting 160, which to me is godlike. I am very, very good at math, my HS math teacher stating i was the best pupil he had seen for 20 years as a teacher at a matehmatical/physical high school, but my iq is only around 130, so i really cannot be that intelligent.
I fear that i will not be intelligent enough to make it in a very competetive field such as cardiology? I hope, should be that i am intelligent enough, to do research in cardiology attmepting to model electric wave propagation and fluid dynamics in heart tissue using mathematical and physical modeling, as my great passion is matehamtics and physics besides medicine, which is why i plan to spend my summer breaks doing mathematics and physics courses, starting with traveling to US for calculus 1+2 at harvard summer school this summer.
I guess what i am trying to figure out is if i should adjust my plans and aim lower, perhaps for less competitive specialties or jobs if my plans are too unrealistic? My peers at medical school see me as very smart, but i dont understand, because i really dont think i am that smart: not everytihng in medical school comes easy to me, and i have abselutely zero academics in my family, so my genetical makeup cannot be anything special : more than half the students in my class has doctors for parents, they are practically born to be good enough. I need to start taking steps and to plan in case my current goals are very unrealistic, given i do not posses an enourmous intellect or anything else out of the ordinary. I have no one to turn to or ask for guidance or mentorship, so please, if you are a trained cardiologist, or any other doctor for that matter, did you have the same doubts about your intellectual power and potential, or perhaps came from the same background as me yet managed to make it in a world occupied by geniusses? I am of course willing to work very hard for my goals, but what use is it to run against a very capable sprinter, if youre missing one of your legs? 
thank you for spending time reading this sort of miserable and self-loathing thread, haha.
