The quotation refers to a person either being wise enough to know their own constitution and being able to look after themselves by middle age or they're a fool.
However I'm 40 this year and although in younger life I wanted to take this a bit more literally, life got in the way.
After my electrical apprenticeship finished I took electronics and electrical engineering as a first degree, management as a second degree, professional qualifications and had a sweet well paid career which enabled me to travel. The industry fell flat, I was out of work for
some time and had to relocate back home. There have been limited opportunities in my field. After moving back here I went back to electrical
work, became more involved in health and safety and went waaaayyy beyond the reading list, so I've got most of the first year reading list.
I was always interested in medicine, my grandfather was an ambulanceman in the front line in WW1 and I grew up reading his books. My Father worked in a psych hospitial. I took first aid courses at 12 when I was in a youth organisation and was teaching the younger lads soon after.
So I've no life sciences qualifications at all, would my degrees, professional qualifications, occupational health and safety qualifications demonstrate numeracy, literacy, ability to apply scientific method and <insert attributes here> enough to secure a place at med school?
Secondary (high) school only allowed to take 2 sciences so I've no biology background other than what I'm reading up now or what I've read up when I was working at the med school.
Is 40 too old to be applying for medical school? I appreciate medicine is the most expensive course of education for the universities to put students through per head, so they would prefer to take on students with a longer potential period of practice. There are however age discrimination laws
in the UK, though I'm not sure if they relate to education as well as employment.
Has anyone taken on a MB & ChB course aged over 40 on the boards here? With a non life sciences back ground? If so how did you fit in with the cohort? It just struck me at the medical library the other day I'd probably be left to study on my own being too old to fit in to any informal
study groups.
I'm also not in a good position to get an academic reference as I've haven't been in full time education for a long time, and had to study for my professional and occupational exams direct from the published syllabi as there weren't any courses for them. How might I overome this hurdle?
A conversion to medicine / access to medicine course isn't possible locally.
A relative (rather distant) teaches at the medical school and may be involved in selection of students but I don't want to use nepotism to get in.
Davidsf2 (United Kingdom)
However I'm 40 this year and although in younger life I wanted to take this a bit more literally, life got in the way.
After my electrical apprenticeship finished I took electronics and electrical engineering as a first degree, management as a second degree, professional qualifications and had a sweet well paid career which enabled me to travel. The industry fell flat, I was out of work for
some time and had to relocate back home. There have been limited opportunities in my field. After moving back here I went back to electrical
work, became more involved in health and safety and went waaaayyy beyond the reading list, so I've got most of the first year reading list.
I was always interested in medicine, my grandfather was an ambulanceman in the front line in WW1 and I grew up reading his books. My Father worked in a psych hospitial. I took first aid courses at 12 when I was in a youth organisation and was teaching the younger lads soon after.
So I've no life sciences qualifications at all, would my degrees, professional qualifications, occupational health and safety qualifications demonstrate numeracy, literacy, ability to apply scientific method and <insert attributes here> enough to secure a place at med school?
Secondary (high) school only allowed to take 2 sciences so I've no biology background other than what I'm reading up now or what I've read up when I was working at the med school.
Is 40 too old to be applying for medical school? I appreciate medicine is the most expensive course of education for the universities to put students through per head, so they would prefer to take on students with a longer potential period of practice. There are however age discrimination laws
in the UK, though I'm not sure if they relate to education as well as employment.
Has anyone taken on a MB & ChB course aged over 40 on the boards here? With a non life sciences back ground? If so how did you fit in with the cohort? It just struck me at the medical library the other day I'd probably be left to study on my own being too old to fit in to any informal
study groups.
I'm also not in a good position to get an academic reference as I've haven't been in full time education for a long time, and had to study for my professional and occupational exams direct from the published syllabi as there weren't any courses for them. How might I overome this hurdle?
A conversion to medicine / access to medicine course isn't possible locally.
A relative (rather distant) teaches at the medical school and may be involved in selection of students but I don't want to use nepotism to get in.
Davidsf2 (United Kingdom)
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