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3rd year radiography student and I feel like I'm doing everything wrong

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How do I deal with the fact that I am the dumbest person in the room?

I've kept up to date with my studies and completed the competencies required from my previous placement, but I feel awfully stupid in comparison to the other 3rd year students at my sight. I'm located at a public hospital where there are classmates with perfect communication skills, along with being constantly praised for their positioning and imaging critquing skills. They always have the answers to the supervisor and tech's questions and are overall very confident and bubbly people that are great at holding up conversations.

Meanwhile, I am extremely timid and unconfidient. I'm still making the mistakes a 2nd year would conduct and fumbling over my words when greeting patients. It's only my first week of placement at this hospital but I've already made so many mistakes and given myself the reputation of being the least competent student. To rub more salt into my wounds, the other students have a lot more competencies than I do that they've gained at their previous sites.

I was treated really harshly at my previous placement and I believe that's what caused me to feel unconfidient in my positioning and my lack of communication skills but I feel like I'm just looking for excuses for being so incompetent.

Has anyone been able to move past an experience like this? I'm starting to worry I'll never get a job as a radiographer when I'll have to compete with brilliant students like those to find a job :,(

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