cytopathology

[Yeh_Dil]

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Hi, I'm new here and I don't know if this is the right place to post this. I'm a high school student( grade 12), and this is my last year and will be going to university after finishing my HS. Here in high schools, we can take co-op course( you study for 2 periods), and the teachers send you out of school to some work placement( so if you're gonna be a doctor, you'll volunteer in some hospital). My teacher called one of the hospitals, and they will be interviewing me on Tuesday, and I will be working in the field of cytopathology. I know it's like studying the cytoplasm, cells to detect deseases, sounds more like reaseach and lab work, but I was thinking more like working in general surgeory because I want to become a surgeon. Since I don't know much about cytopathology and if it will help me later on, should I go ahead and take it or maybe try other hospitals for general surgeory or cardiology etcc???? I'm all confused😱

Thanks

 

[Yeh_Dil]

no help?🙁

 

[djmd]

Nothing you learn now is going to help you 9+ years from now in medical school get into residency or in residency.

Spend time in the hospital for the med school application (and college application) aspects of it.
What you learned, what you like about "medicine" as the concept of health care.

And you think you want to be a surgeon now.. untill medical school you have little hope of understanding what you like...
good luck in the Match 2014.

 

[LADoc00]

Serious. Definitely if you are in 12th NOTHING will help you later on in medicine. That is the equivalent of asking whether a 9th grade class in world religions helps on subspeciality board examinations.....

Have fun, the journey ahead of you is EPIC. Think the original Hobbit book minus the dragon and trolls.

 

[yaah]

I wonder if this is becoming more common. I think parents are becoming so anxious are irritable about whether little Johnny gets "the right education" that they are putting him on a one track educational mission without his consent and/or knowledge as to the real purpose of this. Next stop: Harvard. But why? Why not let Little Johnny find his own way (obviously with encouragement, however, lest Little Johnny drop out of school, join an alternative metal group, and change his name to Falafel).

Just get a job you are interested in. Don't do a job in high school because it is going to help your med school application. If I ever become a med school admissions director, these are the first candidates I will reject.

 

[Yeh_Dil]

I wonder if this is becoming more common. I think parents are becoming so anxious are irritable about whether little Johnny gets "the right education" that they are putting him on a one track educational mission without his consent and/or knowledge as to the real purpose of this. Next stop: Harvard. But why? Why not let Little Johnny find his own way (obviously with encouragement, however, lest Little Johnny drop out of school, join an alternative metal group, and change his name to Falafel).

Just get a job you are interested in. Don't do a job in high school because it is going to help your med school application. If I ever become a med school admissions director, these are the first candidates I will reject.

Where in my post did it say that I'm not interested in becoming a doctor myself and that my parents are forcing me to become one?

I'm from Toronto, Canada, and here in schools we have this cooperative education program which is very popular and many students take it where you volunteer at some work placement related to whatever field you will go into in future. I took it because rather than taking some boring history or some other class, I can take this and still get my 2 credits from this course and also get to know a bit how it's like being a doctor + experience and something to put on my resume, and I bet you would be the only med school admissions dir who would reject applicants who spent their time volunteering in some hospital.

Maybe it won't help me get into med school, but definitely can help when I'm applying to some university.

BTW, I start on this Thursday.

 

[dermpathlover]

Where in my post did it say that I'm not interested in becoming a doctor myself and that my parents are forcing me to become one?

I'm from Toronto, Canada, and here in schools we have this cooperative education program which is very popular and many students take it where you volunteer at some work placement related to whatever field you will go into in future. I took it because rather than taking some boring history or some other class, I can take this and still get my 2 credits from this course and also get to know a bit how it's like being a doctor + experience and something to put on my resume, and I bet you would be the only med school admissions dir who would reject applicants who spent their time volunteering in some hospital.

Maybe it won't help me get into med school, but definitely can help when I'm applying to some university.

BTW, I start on this Thursday.

Don't listen to yaah. If it was up to him, we would all be wearing suits to work and listening to classical music while taking days mentally masterbating over little points in cases that no one would give a S about. In the real world it's all about being a hustler and playa. You want to get somewhere you got to hustle and play the game. Any volunteer work or research that exposes you to medicine is a plus on your applications for both medical school and undergrad. I met a pathologist from UCSF in an interview who was on the ad-com there, and he said the med student kids "were all like Jesus, perfect in every way". A direct quote from his was "many were participating in NIH funded reserach projects in high school". Obviously that alone won't do the job, but it is part of the game. The time is now to get that edge. You can't start too early. Don't do what you want. Do what gives you the edge to get where you want.

You may not get into Yaah's medical school, but those kind of things are what get you into UCSF.

 

[112641]

Actually if you havn't decided that you're going to be a Dr by 2nd grade and hang out at the school nurses office after school learning how to properly bandaid boo-boos before you're 10 you have no chance of doing anything other than janitorial work when you grow up.

 

[yaah]

Don't listen to yaah. If it was up to him, we would all be wearing suits to work and listening to classical music while taking days mentally masterbating over little points in cases that no one would give a S about. In the real world it's all about being a hustler and playa. You want to get somewhere you got to hustle and play the game. Any volunteer work or research that exposes you to medicine is a plus on your applications for both medical school and undergrad. I met a pathologist from UCSF in an interview who was on the ad-com there, and he said the med student kids "were all like Jesus, perfect in every way". A direct quote from his was "many were participating in NIH funded reserach projects in high school". Obviously that alone won't do the job, but it is part of the game. The time is now to get that edge. You can't start too early. Don't do what you want. Do what gives you the edge to get where you want.

You may not get into Yaah's medical school, but those kind of things are what get you into UCSF.

No, in the real world it is about doing the best job you can and doing it professionally, whatever that entails. If you want to consider everything to be "a game" in which you assume different personae depending on who you need to impress, then fine, I can't stop you. But this is not the only way to success. Nor does success always equal doing the minimum amount of work possible to make the maximum amount of cash while still pathetically trying to maintain "street cred" to impress the high schoolers and premeds to whom this actually matters.

What gets you into UCSF is the same kind of thing that gets you in anywhere: Hard work, good grades and scores, good recommendations, and demonstration of interest in the field through various methods.

Pricks come in all forms - from those who are all style and no substance to those who are all substance and no style, to those who think they have all the answers, and to those who play dumb at every turn while backstabbing.