Studying Medicine - Urgent Advice!!!

shadow some docs and make sure ur ineresed in the work 

I've had some distant relatives from the UK go and study medicine in Poland. Not sure how they're doing now.

I would stay within your country if it is at all possible. 

The problem with giving advice is different countries have different systems.

US and Canadian medical school seem to be leaning more towards people completing 3-4 years of undergraduate before applying and I know many who went into medicine with PhDs (7 years of school to get PhD and then medical school after that)!

Perhaps some European countries let you go straight to med school with no university or 1-2 years.

For medical school these days, you're going to want to have good grades, volunteering experience (not necessarily medical related) and an interesting life story (talk about your volunteering experience and why you want to be a doctor).

Getting into medical school is difficult and the earlier you start the better. 

You talked about the taxi driver thing for immigrants: the problem with medical degrees is some countries won't recognize your degree as soon as you land in the country and almost all of them will require you take a test and show you can pass it before you can start practicing. That costs money and it takes time (to study for the test) and often it's in the new country's language that you are learning. And then you have to find a way to get a job with no connections. It's no impossible but alot of these men and women coming from say India to the US don't have the time and money to pass tests. They have families to support and they will take the first job they can get.

In Canada you can do a 3 or 4 years undergraduate degree in anything then take the MCATS to get into med school, then about another 3 or 4 years in med school after you can do a residency depending on what exactly you are going into. The residency could take up to 3-7 years. Or you could go to an island to study medicine. I am also in high school and am working towards the medical field. Co-op is a good option so you can shadow doctors in a hospital, that is what I am doing. Studying medicine is generally expensive but I think if you study it on an island it is cheaper and faster but the medical systems are different in each country, depending on where you study you will be restricted when you get your medical license.

I HOPE THIS HELPS!

Medical school and the accompanying medical license systems differ from country to country so you will have to do a fair amount of research.

I would encourage you to shadow doctors and have experiences in a clinical setting with healthcare workers and patients (volunteer/internship) to determine and solidify your decision to pursue medicine. 

FYI in the USA, it is an unwritten requirement that medical school applicants have clinical experiences and scientific research experiences.

Becoming a doctor is quite a competitive, rigorous and time consuming process and you must evaluate whether it is the right fit for your career goals and desires.

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 Knavery:

The problem with giving advice is different countries have different systems.

 Knavery:

Getting into medical school is difficult and the earlier you start the better. 

 Knavery:

he problem with medical degrees is some countries won't recognize your degree as soon as you land in the country and almost all of them will require you take a test and show you can pass it before you can start practicing. That costs money and it takes time (to study for the test) and often it's in the new country's language that you are learning. And then you have to find a way to get a job with no connections.

yes

 rad_lisette:

FYI in the USA, it is an unwritten requirement that medical school applicants have clinical experiences and scientific research experiences.

research is a plus

 Call Me Onee-sama:

the years spent studying will make me go bankrupt.

yea ids a bery lon and expensibe course

u made de ride choice. i didn wanna say id earlier becuz i wanded u 2 come 2 ur own final opinion 

bud yea iz is a shid job

 Alia95:

So I don't know if you still need advice, but I am from Germany.

To be able to go to University you need the Abitur. We have diffrent kinds of secondary schools here in Germany and Abitur is the ''highest'' degree you can get from school.

To be able to study medicine you need a really good degree. We don't use GPAs here but grades.

Very good:

(15) : 1+

(14) : 1

(13) : 1-

good:

(12): 2+

(11): 2

(10) : 2-

etc.

Medicine is something a lot of people want to study so this degree has a Numerus Clausus (NC). It basically says what grade you have to have to get accepted without waiting a few semesters. This year it was 1,0 (14) on average in almost every state [1,1 (still 14 I think) in one or two].

I do not know if they make a diffrence between foreign and German students or not. But I think if you got the requiered degree and grade it shouldn't matter. 

But this doesn't mean you can't try if you don't have those grades. You might still be accepted.

May I ask you if one wants to pursue a Masters Degree in Pharmacy, but I'm not German and I already have a Bachelor's degree and my high school diploma is of IGCSE. Will they accept my Bachelor's degree or will I have to like restudy for it or smth if I want to get my Masters there?..

And please if anyone knows any good countries to pursue a Master's degree on pharmacy, do advise.