Do med schools actually hate allied health/nursing students?

[Anthodite]

I've been winced at by premeds when I told them bio is my second degree after doing one similar to Associate degree Registered Nurse in terms of education and certification. I have no idea if it's a mind game but these premeds swear to me that med schools hate allied health students because they "wasted a spot" in their program just to go premed.

Feeling so discouraged right now just because I wasn't able to physically able to work as radiation therapist after graduating, they say my app looks atrocious. I got injured on my last clinical site placement and I ruminated for months with every possible degree plan to settle on this. I could have become rich by going to dosimetry school or healthcare administration but instead I really allowed myself to explore the pre-med, pre-pa, pre-md/phd route even if it makes no financial sense because that's where my interests lied.

I applied to radiation therapy school during COVID thinking the job had little physical requirements, I couldn't shadow anyone if I wanted to. I had no idea the field was extremely physical and not friendly to any fatigue-related disabilities. Although I have over 1300 clinical hours, constantly making sure patients skin didn't drastically change or help measure/monitor their symptoms in check(so you know, they don't die, suffer, or get hurt), I was told this was a waste of space on the AMCAS by premeds.

I know the opinion of some 18-20 year old kids shouldn't matter but It's kinda getting to me, since they all have deliberately crafted applications and I'm just some bloke who figured out they wanted to do medicine halfway through college in their eyes.

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[Nontrad_FL_LGBT]

Premeds almost universally have no idea what they're talking about. Don't pay them any mind. You just need a good reason to move into medicine. Wanting a "fatigue-friendly" job wouldn't be one.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Accept the fact that for the rest of our lives, we live in the presence of many totally misinformed people. They're afraid that if someone with an allied health/nursing background can get into medical school, their own choices are misinformed or invalid.

 

[Anthodite]

Wanting a "fatigue-friendly" job wouldn't be one.

Yeah no if fatigue-friendly was my only goal for a job, I would be a rich dosimetrist by now. I just meant by comparison the non surgical physicians I've met don't have to repeatedly lift 200 lbs+ patients multiple times a day every single work day, sometimes adjusting them alone. Every 10-15 minutes there's someone new to lift and lead/carbon fiber/Cerrobend/tungsten attachments to move around.

 

[Anthodite]

Accept the fact that for the rest of our lives, we live in the presence of many totally misinformed people. They're afraid that if someone with an allied health/nursing background can get into medical school, their own choices are misinformed or invalid.

I love how you always drop the lil bits of wisdom. Thanks for that 🙂