Do you have medical professionals in your immediate family?

[jochi1543]

Just curious after looking at the "traditional medical student" thread - the OP listed having a physician in the family as one of the characteristics of a "traditional" med student/applicant. I wonder how many people here have a physician or other medical professional in their immediate family. By immediate family, I mean parents, grandparents, and older siblings. I would not count in-laws. Medical professionals that are not physicians would be nurses, PAs, NPs, paramedics, etc.

I don't have any medical professionals in my immediate family.

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[etf]

Just curious after looking at the "traditional medical student" thread - the OP listed having a physician in the family as one of the characteristics of a "traditional" med student/applicant. I wonder how many people here have a physician or other medical professional in their immediate family. By immediate family, I mean parents, grandparents, and older siblings. I would not count in-laws.

I don't have any medical professionals in my immediate family.

my mom is a nurse, but other than that, no medical professionals in my immediate family. all of my grandparents were basically farmers who didn't complete grade school. i've got a pretty large extended family (aunts/uncles, cousins), and while we have a lot of nurses, not a single physician. i'm hoping to become the first...

 

[Phoenix.]

Yup: Grandfather was a doctor; brother is a doctor in the air force (and his wife is a doctor in the army).

 

[Sir Buckethead]

I have a big extended family, (11 aunt/uncle pairs, cousins as far as the eye can see) and not so much as a nurse's aide among em.

 

[armybound]

Medical professionals yes, doctors no.

My mom is a nurse. My sister is a pharmacy technician.

My dad originally was some kind of medic when he joined the Army. It might be genetic or something.

 

[drizzt3117]

My father, brother, and two cousins are doctors, two more are med students, and a whole bunch are premeds. Yeah, I have a big family.

 

[AKN]

My sister is a nurse practitioner.

 

[Dogsjill]

Both parents are doctors...I always said I wanted to be anything but a doctor until junior year of high school when I realized it's actually a pretty cool job.

 

[armybound]

Both parents are doctors...I always said I wanted to be anything but a doctor until junior year of high school when I realized it's actually a pretty cool job.

do they both work the same number of hours? did your mom ever quit working to watch the kids? what are their specialties?

 

[Wylde]

My father, brother, and two cousins are doctors, two more are med students, and a whole bunch are premeds. Yeah, I have a big family.

no pressure, eh?

I'm sure they'll be proud if you enter the waste management industry.

 

[pakbabydoll]

Well my uncle is a physician, but we are not that close to him. I am first one to go to college in my house and my dads side of the family.

 

[jr doctor in sd]

Im SO happy this is a thread...I have some very extended family doctors but none that i ever speak to or know of.

I think it's alot harder when you cant have mom/dad make a quick call to set you up with a big internship or etc. at a co-worker's place.

Im rooting for all those out there with no doors opened for them at all! (and those with some opened but that are on SDN since i like you all! haha)

 

[ina1220]

Im SO happy this is a thread...I have some very extended family doctors but none that i ever speak to or know of.

I think it's alot harder when you cant have mom/dad make a quick call to set you up with a big internship or etc. at a co-worker's place.

Im rooting for all those out there with no doors opened for them at all! (and those with some opened but that are on SDN since i like you all! haha)

Not always the case, my friend. My dad is a physician, but his status hasn't given me any sort of red-carpet treatment. I have worked just as hard as the next pre-med to gain meaningful experience.

 

[jr doctor in sd]

Not always the case, my friend. My dad is a physician, but his status hasn't given me any sort of red-carpet treatment. I have worked just as hard as the next pre-med to gain meaningful experience.

Yeah...not all the time. I wanted to edit my post but was too lazy to go back and try and make it sound more how i wanted it. It's just from my experience of trying to get involved with stuff is harder USUALLY because of course some friends' parents have people who they can refer them to...or also a school might like the fact that your parent(s) is a physician (whether for $, the prestige in the title, etc.), and if theyre American and went to a college here for med school it seems even better because if you applied to their school itd be a big connection. I definitely dont see it helping as much as say...affirmative racism...thats for sure. (haha...might get flamed for that one)

 

[lei217]

First member of either side of my family to ever go to college!

 

[skyeblue0610]

I have an aunt who's an nurse's aide but that's it.
No one medical on either side

 

[Bacchus]

My mom works at a nursing home. Hardly medical experience necessary. She has little training. Just what she needs.

 

[meowkat444]

Well my uncle is a physician, but I am the first college student in my family.

eerrr... what? i mean, if i think about it i get what you're trying to say, but...

 

[AlXguy]

One of my uncles is a Neurosurgeon and other one is a Pediatrician.

 

[Retro Virus]

Yeah, my mother is a pediatrician, my father is a geriatrician, my uncle does emergency medicine, his son (my cousin) does internal medicine, grandma and grandpa were pharmacists, grandpa on the other side was a neurosurgeon, etcetera etcetera.

I find it hard to imagine using "family connections" to get ahead. I really wanted to get into med school on my own merits; if I'd had to cheat I know I'd feel like a fraud when I got there.

 

[armybound]

First member of either side of my family to ever go to college!

congrats, that's quite an accomplishment.