Medicine right for me?

WayOutWestMom
Mon, 22 May 2023 15:30:26 +0000

There are many different way to work in a medical profession. There are jobs that you’ve never even heard of.

This is searchable database of healthcare profession jobs to help you get some additional ideas.

ExploreHealthCareers.org

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Student health careers information and interactive tools for exploring health career paths, and finding schooling and funding opportunities.

As mentioned above you don’t need to be any particular major to ecome one a doctor, but you do have to like science (esp. bio and chem) and be proficient at it. one of my daughter majored in physics & math, the other in math and neuroscience–both became doctors. They had classmates in med school with a really wide variety of majors–like forestry, music, theology/religious studies, sports communications, and Italian.

Becoming a physician is a calling, rather like the calling to become a priest/preacher. you have to want to do it deep down inside yourself.

There’s saying among med school adcomm members-- if there is anything else you think you might be happy doing as profession–do that, not medicine.

In high school, volunteering with disparaged/disadvantaged groups is good place to start. If you can volunteer in a nursing home or hospice center to get some exposure to patients, that’s even better.