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Hi. What are some career options if someone fails out of med school? Undergrad was in Biology. From what I have gathered, these are some options but I would appreciate your opinions.
1. re-take the MCAT and reapply or reapply to another school without retaking
2. Dental school
3. PHd
Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.
Brings back chilling memories from my own medical school experience. Anatomy was my weakest area and I too nearly dropped out.
What turned me around was getting help. I was lucky to find a couple of top students from higher years (who literally came top of the year) to tutor me weekly. They saved my sad a$s.
For you I think option (1) might be the way to go, provided you are happy to keep going and not too nauseated by the idea of medicine.
Dentistry is an option but wouldn't dentistry be even more competitive than medicine?
PhD is also an option but you are racing against time. PhD takes years to finish and you are not that young anymore. It's a long way around. Certainly once you acquired PhD it will make re-applying medicine and specialties easier but PhD itself takes at least 2 years, average 3 - 4 years. That's a long time out of your peak years.
In any case , good luck!