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Old 09-29-2011, 01:41 AM   #46
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addendum to the above:
Despite my entirely average USMLE scores, I have plenty of evidence that I'm good at taking care of patients and love taking care of the sickest children in the hospital - those that require being in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. I'm interviewing for fellowship training positions for Peds Critical Care at the moment and all the programs I'm considering are top 15 in the country. For all the people that consider pediatrics easy, I promise you, none of them want to be in my position when an extremely ill child rolls through. Once you get out into actual real clinical medicine test scores don't necessarily mean a whole lot. The high board scores needed to match into competitive specialties are not because those specialties require more knowledge, just that the specialties have their pick of well qualified applicants.
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Old 08-24-2012, 08:50 PM   #47
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All of this sounds so tiring and ...boring! Where on earth do you get the motivation to continue?! Is it EVER interesting or fun!?!?
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Old 11-16-2012, 03:54 PM   #48
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*get educated in a country where the medschool is free or half the cost (do research)
*then take the exams here and pass
*it's great if you do not plan to get married or have kids, if you're female, otherwise, more money will be spent on freezing eggs
*consider the work life balance and the trade-off
*consider the cost of paying for med-school if you don't have the free-ride option, and its effects on investments later on, like a car or house, or travel
*consider the cost when you decide to not practice in the end to raise a family instead
*know that if you marry someone that will eventually go to med school that will not pay for their med school, that the responsibility may be transferred to you
*if short lifespan runs in your family, consider what other jobs may be finished much faster. there are other jobs that help people.
*if it's about money, there are other jobs that make a lot of money in a short amount of time

in short, I recommend that people who can afford to go to med school without a loan, with excellent physical health should go. and those on the opposite spectrum shouldn't unless they get into a better situation. i'm not saying it isn't doable, but to just know these details upfront before being immersed halfway through med school. and i'm sure there are some people who just go to med school because they like taking tests.
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Old 11-16-2012, 08:08 PM   #49
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if you do the research you will see that less than half (40-45%) of the graduates from foreign MD programs get a residency spot while ~95% of american MD graduates do. I would never ever ever recommend someone go to a foreign medical school if they can get into ANY american MD or even DO (they have an 85-90% residency match rate) school.
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Old 11-17-2012, 08:53 AM   #50
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Do you need to take physics and calculus in college in order to get into med school ? Or is stats okay ?
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Old 11-17-2012, 10:07 AM   #51
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Yeah, you have to take physics and at least calculus 1.. Often people take stats too, apparently it's more helpful than calc 2 from what I've seen from people on this forum
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