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It's no different from any profession with 70+ duty hours/week, less than optimal sleep, and constant threat of lawsuit for less-than-perfect outcomes.Can we get to the heart of why physicians lead such stressful lives?
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Most male doctors are bald. Years of stress will do that. From the very get go, doctors are stressed to get high gpa in undergrad, go thru the whole stress of the mcat, stress of applying, stress of actually being in medical school, step exams, and all that.
C'mon, it's not THAT all bad.Most male doctors are bald. Years of stress will do that. From the very get go, doctors are stressed to get high gpa in undergrad, go thru the whole stress of the mcat, stress of applying, stress of actually being in medical school, step exams, and all that.
C'mon, it's not THAT all bad.
1.You need a high GPA for basically any competitive field, medicine or no. I was hardcore IB/econ in UG. The gunner attitude is probably worse than pre-med, I was lowkey pissed to only get a large corp bank offer near graduation, instead of the really high comp boutique firms. Why? Cuz everyone else was doing even better.
2. MCAT is a test, and not the only damn test out there. People do have things like the GRE, DAT, GMAT, LSAT, etc etc...
3. Applying is kinda expensive, but if your numbers are there (LizzyM > 67-68ish) and you have a good list it's really not that stressful. Kinda exciting really.
4. Med school isn't "fun," but it ain't bad either. During the academic year I sleep in until 9 on most days (by choice, I could go until 11), do a nice jog, shower/eat, waltz to class, eat lunch, go do some research I really enjoy, hang out with people for a bit, and then watch some quality TV shows that I follow before bed. Obviously rotations will end that, but still--it's not half bad. There's a decent chance of free food somewhere on campus all the time too, so that's exciting as well.
5. Step is stressful but the standards aren't as high circa the MCAT. 70%ile (240) is the magic number that makes you decently competitive for any specialty. Like it or not there are a lot of not-very-smart people for various reasons in the entirety of every US M.D. class population. You will get a 70%ile if you put in enough time and effort.
Things are only as bad as you can imagine them to be. And most physicians I know aren't bald.
Maybe, I'll let you know for sure once I take it haha.Agree with most of this! But I've heard that step is a different animal and since the population as a whole is "smarter" do you think that you might be understating the difficulty in getting a 240?
Not anymore. Charting outcomes for 2016 has ortho/ENT/plastics/derm/neurosurg at an average of 240 for applicants that don't match (250+ for those that do). And 240 isn't even bottom percentile of those that did match for several of those specialities.5. Step is stressful but the standards aren't as high circa the MCAT. 70%ile (240) is the magic number that makes you decently competitive for any specialty. Like it or not there are a lot of not-very-smart people for various reasons in the entirety of every US M.D. class population. You will get a 70%ile if you put in enough time and effort.
Which reinforces the fact that these specialties aren't only interested in Step. You also need AOA, pubs, clinical exp in said specialty etc. You'd be surprised at how many people apply without them.Not anymore. Charting outcomes for 2016 has ortho/ENT/plastics/derm/neurosurg at an average of 240 for applicants that don't match (250+ for those that do). And 240 isn't even bottom percentile of those that did match for several of those specialities.
Because they feel entitled and then find out they have to work? The docs I see that arent afraid to work dont seem to be stressed in the slightest.