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So I am about 1 week away from submitting my application on ptcas... and suddenly I find myself wondering if I should be applying to Med School instead. Is it normal to still be questioning things?
Am I really the only one who feels this last minute apprehension? :/
While I took my prereqs, I absolutely had the thought, "Should I be aiming higher?"
What I came to realize was that I didn't want to be a doctor, and that being a doctor wasn't, in fact, higher in any way. Being an MD or DO is just different.
I actually had this discussion with one of my mentors in my program today. I wanted to know my anatomy inside and out. I wanted to have a deeper, more specific, and more complete knowledge of the musculoskeletal system than doctors receive. And making money in life was never my aim. If it was, I probably should have gone the DO route.
Consider that in my program, the PT students do 20 lab dissections on a cadaver. It's literally soup to nuts the entire body. The MDs at my school, one of the top in the nation for their field? They do 9 labs, on pre-dissected cadavers that the 2nd year PT students prepare for them!
I know what I'd choose
Many people probably don't realize the scope and intensity of PT education, so being a physician seems a lot more prestigious.
While I took my prereqs, I absolutely had the thought, "Should I be aiming higher?"
What I came to realize was that I didn't want to be a doctor, and that being a doctor wasn't, in fact, higher in any way. Being an MD or DO is just different.
I actually had this discussion with one of my mentors in my program today. I wanted to know my anatomy inside and out. I wanted to have a deeper, more specific, and more complete knowledge of the musculoskeletal system than doctors receive. And making money in life was never my aim. If it was, I probably should have gone the DO route.
Consider that in my program, the PT students do 20 lab dissections on a cadaver. It's literally soup to nuts the entire body. The MDs at my school, one of the top in the nation for their field? They do 9 labs, on pre-dissected cadavers that the 2nd year PT students prepare for them!
I know what I'd choose