re: How tough is it to become a medical doctor?

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Doctors are the highest iq in many studies....and it is just the tip....the self discipline, drive and confidence is impressive in the young adults I have watched grow up and become doctors....

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I know my opinion of doctors changed greatly after seeing the folks I went to school with (HS and undergrad) become doctors.

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If you ask some of the people I went to HS and undergrad with, they may tell you the same thing.

But once I was accepted, it lit a fire under my arse to get my shite together.

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The biggest correlation to becoming a doctor is not intelligence but rather how willing you are to go into debt and prolong your education before making money. The next factor is how much you are willing to work at it. Intelligence would actually be far down the list.

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I think the biggest factor that goes into someone passing or failing medical school is how bad they will work to get it. I literally did not take multiple days off at time from studying. The most i ever took off was the afternoons of a test day. Then it was right back to it till midnight the next night. It is all about hard work.

If you don't already know, it is too late for you

Guy I grew up with went to Caribbean Med school. Had trouble finding a good job an eventually quit and works at his dads music store now.

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I’m sure you’re doing very well in med school because first and second year are a lot of rote memorization.

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I'm actually doing terribly in those sections of courses which require a lot of memorization. Probably because I've never had to learn how to memorize things because I just remembered them, but it is impossible to just read something in medical school and remember it, which is pretty much how I remember everything else I read. I'm doing way better on things based on concepts, in which I can place information based on frameworks I understand, if that makes sense. I actually realized I remember things much better based on conceptual understanding and placing details into that pre-built framework. I've struggled mightily on the portions of the courses which are like "here are 50 medications, know everything about them." There was one portion of pharmacology where we had to know something like 150 medications, their MOA, their adverse effects, their route of administration, when it was first-line or second-line or whatever and their method of clearance from the body. And we had effectively ten days to learn it. I, along with everyone else in the class, struggled terribly with that. Honestly, I thought it was an idiotic way of teaching, because we had that course before we had micro or path, and we basically understood nothing of what we memorized. And not surprisingly, most of us have forgotten the material completely.