Do you know anyone that dropped or failed out of med school? What are they doing now?

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I wish knew what to do, I was dismissed a moth ago, and I'm just sitting at my moms house in the same bedroom I grew up in. I live in a really rural impoverished are and the only respectable thing I could do around here is teach, but I hate teaching, I tried it before med school. I plan on applying to a different type of graduate program to start July 2019, but I honestly don't want to just sit around for the next year, I may not have a choice. Working a job I hate just to feed myself would be bad for the children I am teaching.
 
psychMDhopefully said:
I wish knew what to do, I was dismissed a moth ago, and I'm just sitting at my moms house in the same bedroom I grew up in. I live in a really rural impoverished are and the only respectable thing I could do around here is teach, but I hate teaching, I tried it before med school. I plan on applying to a different type of graduate program to start July 2019, but I honestly don't want to just sit around for the next year, I may not have a choice. Working a job I hate just to feed myself would be bad for the children I am teaching.
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Hey man,sorry to hear about this. It sucks. Have you thought about picking up some skills or something like coding boot camp? I was unemployed once and it sucked immensely. Something will come along , or an opportunity will appear that interests you.
 
psychMDhopefully said:
I wish knew what to do, I was dismissed a moth ago, and I'm just sitting at my moms house in the same bedroom I grew up in. I live in a really rural impoverished are and the only respectable thing I could do around here is teach, but I hate teaching, I tried it before med school. I plan on applying to a different type of graduate program to start July 2019, but I honestly don't want to just sit around for the next year, I may not have a choice. Working a job I hate just to feed myself would be bad for the children I am teaching.
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Seriously, leaving med school is devastating. You spend all of these years and money to get in, and if you're let go you basically have to start over while being 4-6 years behind everyone else. No particular skills or internships, just a degree. It's tough I feel you.
 
DesertDude said:
Seriously, leaving med school is devastating. You spend all of these years and money to get in, and if you're let go you basically have to start over while being 4-6 years behind everyone else. No particular skills or internships, just a degree. It's tough I feel you.
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Thanks? If I don't think about the situation my day is better, if I do think about the situation there are waves of alternating anger and depression. I honestly think about doing nothing, getting on disability, food stamps, getting a ****ty apartment and living out the rest of my days not working and doing whatever I can afford to.
 
psychMDhopefully said:
I wish knew what to do, I was dismissed a moth ago, and I'm just sitting at my moms house in the same bedroom I grew up in. I live in a really rural impoverished are and the only respectable thing I could do around here is teach, but I hate teaching, I tried it before med school. I plan on applying to a different type of graduate program to start July 2019, but I honestly don't want to just sit around for the next year, I may not have a choice. Working a job I hate just to feed myself would be bad for the children I am teaching.
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There's always the US military. Or the National Guard. At least make a few bucks here and there.
 
Goro said:
Student of ours who was dismissed tried to get into the Caribbean and the last I heard of him, he was driving for UPS.

EDIT: I looked up another one and he's adjunct teaching at a local college!
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How did he snatch an acceptance in the first place?
 
A friend of mine did for personal reasons. She is currently acting. Several screenplays and other artistic ventures.


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I know one guy who dropped his second year and is working at Home depot. Everyone was happy he dropped since people thought he was super obnoxious.
 
I recall one classmate who dropped because she was failing her classes. Ended up applying to school in the Caribbean - failed out again. I think she’s married with children now and not doing anything.
 
psychMDhopefully said:
I wish knew what to do, I was dismissed a moth ago, and I'm just sitting at my moms house in the same bedroom I grew up in. I live in a really rural impoverished are and the only respectable thing I could do around here is teach, but I hate teaching, I tried it before med school. I plan on applying to a different type of graduate program to start July 2019, but I honestly don't want to just sit around for the next year, I may not have a choice. Working a job I hate just to feed myself would be bad for the children I am teaching.
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And now, I'm teaching chemistry. Sending this message from my classroom. Applying to AA school for fall 2019.
 
Fenderbaum said:
I'm an MS 2 and I'm about to drop out. First year went fine academically, but I can't stand the orwellian social justice left being in my face every fricking day. I've set a quit date to avoid impulsivity, I am bailing in a few weeks.

I signed up for science and idealism, but its actually more like endless hours of talking with the most pretentious people you've ever met in your life about how important empathy is, and putting up with creepy clerical maternals running around everywhere looking for signs of social justice sinning.

I left a field where I was doing well into six figures on an easier schedule - and where I didn't have to listen to the "National Socialists against Nazism" schpeel every ****ing day - will just go back to it.
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When you do withdraw, do let me know where you're at.
 
That’s an odd reason to quit. Who cares what some people at your school think? Most docs are PP and live their life nothing like that.

Fenderbaum said:
I'm an MS 2 and I'm about to drop out. First year went fine academically, but I can't stand the orwellian social justice left being in my face every fricking day. I've set a quit date to avoid impulsivity, I am bailing in a few weeks.

I signed up for science and idealism, but its actually more like endless hours of talking with the most pretentious people you've ever met in your life about how important empathy is, and putting up with creepy clerical maternals running around everywhere looking for signs of social justice sinning.

I left a field where I was doing well into six figures on an easier schedule - and where I didn't have to listen to the "National Socialists against Nazism" schpeel every ****ing day - will just go back to it.
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Fenderbaum said:
I'm an MS 2 and I'm about to drop out. First year went fine academically, but I can't stand the orwellian social justice left being in my face every fricking day. I've set a quit date to avoid impulsivity, I am bailing in a few weeks.

I signed up for science and idealism, but its actually more like endless hours of talking with the most pretentious people you've ever met in your life about how important empathy is, and putting up with creepy clerical maternals running around everywhere looking for signs of social justice sinning.

I left a field where I was doing well into six figures on an easier schedule - and where I didn't have to listen to the "National Socialists against Nazism" schpeel every ****ing day - will just go back to it.
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Sounds like you need a safe space, my friend.
 
Fenderbaum said:
I'm an MS 2 and I'm about to drop out. First year went fine academically, but I can't stand the orwellian social justice left being in my face every fricking day. I've set a quit date to avoid impulsivity, I am bailing in a few weeks.

I signed up for science and idealism, but its actually more like endless hours of talking with the most pretentious people you've ever met in your life about how important empathy is, and putting up with creepy clerical maternals running around everywhere looking for signs of social justice sinning.

I left a field where I was doing well into six figures on an easier schedule - and where I didn't have to listen to the "National Socialists against Nazism" schpeel every ****ing day - will just go back to it.
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You seem to hate the medical students and medical professionals that surround you. Yet you're still posting on a forum. With medical students and medical professionals on it. :eyebrow:

"National Socialists against Nazism"..."orwellian social justice left"..."creepy clerical maternals" - Also, wut?
 
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PickleRick19 said:
You seem to hate the medical students and medical professionals that surround you. Yet you're still posting on a forum. With medical students and medical professionals on it. :eyebrow:
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Yeah I can’t imagine how this guy had any sort of professional career before if he can’t tolerate other people with different political viewpoints from his. I’m likely much younger than him and I went to medical school with people who had strong Christian conservative viewpoints (the all-y’all-going-to-hell types) which I strongly disagreed with but I didn’t let that influence me at all. My job was to shut up, study, and do well on exams the first two years, and then spend the following two years learning medicine. I don’t get where anyone would have the TIME to have such weird anxieties
 
IMreshopeful said:
Yeah I can’t imagine how this guy had any sort of professional career before if he can’t tolerate other people with different political viewpoints from his. I’m likely much younger than him and I went to medical school with people who had strong Christian conservative viewpoints (the all-y’all-going-to-hell types) which I strongly disagreed with but I didn’t let that influence me at all. My job was to shut up, study, and do well on exams the first two years, and then spend the following two years learning medicine. I don’t get where anyone would have the TIME to have such weird anxieties
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Right? I don't know how anyone has the time or gets through a day in ANY profession that deals with people with that mindset. I personally didn't ask or care what the breakdown of local political views were when applying to med school. I'm here to learn how to be a doctor (and work with people/patients of many different viewpoints, no matter how ridiculous).
 
My roommate in college was on the school's baccalaureate MD program. I think he sells drugs for a living... or he died, I really don't know.

The dude who sat next to me in 1st year of medical school dropped out after the 1st or 2nd year. I think he is distributor for a brewing company last time I checked.

I realize these are bad examples. Sorry, I don't know any good ones.
That being said, you could do what any other college graduate does. Alternatively, have you thought of PA school? Good money, medicine oriented, only a portion of the time.
 
Goro said:
Beginning to think that he's trolling.
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Well it looks like the mods wiped out most of his post history (probably for his own good given some of the creepy sexual stuff he was posing on here), but like a lot of things on SDN, the question of "is he trolling or just that clueless" the answer is more often than not the latter.
 
OrthoTraumaMD said:
Wow I’m pretty republican and anti-SJW but I wouldn’t quit med school over it....


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Same and same. The first post of his complaining about the SJW environment that I saw was pretty relatable and on-topic. But then he kept getting more and more extreme and spouting his rhetoric across every thread he could, even if not related at all. Like someone would have a WAMC thread and he would come in spewing a don’t even apply because of blah blah Left blah blah women blah blah SJW blah blah in Medical school.
 
NecFasc92 said:
Same viewpoints/ ideology and I agree with this mostly but let's not pretend the far left aren't doing the same thing all over your class Facebook page and this site. The intolerable for anything non-liberal has reached a new level among our generation.

To that end I don't mind *some* of his rhetoric. Maybe he just got sick of the far left shoving their ideas down everyone's throat? I dunno
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There's far-left, like the antifas and the Santa Monica city council, and there's "far-left" as in "anything I don't like". Guess which one he was bleating about?

I note that many of his recent posts have been deleted. Perhaps the mods got bit tired of the complaints and threadjacking?
 
IMreshopeful said:
Yeah I can’t imagine how this guy had any sort of professional career before if he can’t tolerate other people with different political viewpoints from his. I’m likely much younger than him and I went to medical school with people who had strong Christian conservative viewpoints (the all-y’all-going-to-hell types) which I strongly disagreed with but I didn’t let that influence me at all. My job was to shut up, study, and do well on exams the first two years, and then spend the following two years learning medicine. I don’t get where anyone would have the TIME to have such weird anxieties
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No kidding. As I think back, I have no idea what kind of politics any of my classmates had.

Its almost like we had bigger things to worry about, I just can't think what those bigger things might have been.
 
VA Hopeful Dr said:
No kidding. As I think back, I have no idea what kind of politics any of my classmates had.

Its almost like we had bigger things to worry about, I just can't think what those bigger things might have been.
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To be fair, I was in school as GWB was winding down his second term. My class was certainly more vocally liberal but it wasn't a great time for vocal conservatives wherever you were back then.
 
DesertDude said:
I think I'll stick in the bio field. You can really get into CS by just taking a bootcamp? I thought you needed an undergrad degree.
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Bio degrees are dime a dozen and most "premed" bio degrees end up not going to medical school and moving back home working a low paying job. You would be much better off going to App academy or something actually competitive instead of a mundane bio degree.
 
I had a classmate at DO school, who left after 1st year to return to her job working as an educator/teacher. She did a master's degree thereafter. She just decided that medicine wasn't for her as it was too stressful, and she is happier last I heard.

I know two other people (one in a USMD program and one at a Caribbean school) who were struggling and died by suicide - though this was a long-term solution to (a likely more) shorter-term problem, and was very heart breaking for all of us who knew them. One of them had a young child, who now has a step-mother raising the child, instead of the child's own mother. Doing any other kind of job (whether in teaching, nursing, business or whatever else) is a better option than self-harm. A career in medicine just isn't worth losing one's life over.
 
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About the above political comments: it’s sort of unavoidable to avoid discussing politics at my school, as SES commentary permeates a lot of the curriculum.
 
DesertDude said:
Tbh I wish SDN had a forum for drop outs lol.
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DesertDude said:
Other reasons. Was losing my mind studying all day every day, being isolated, not having time for hobbies, while most people around me were doing better and having social lives. Realized I didn't have the doctoral "brain" and dropped out.
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Like Goro said, if you still want to be adjacent to the game, if you left in good standing you could look below at the optometrists, audiologists, various occupational therapists, et cetera in the allied health professions section. What was your undergrad major? Was there anything non-medical there that was of interest?

TBH a forum for dropouts is literally every other career-roiented forum out there.

You're a college graduate and an adult human in the world. Pick a road, any road, just make sure you make the most of your choice to leave and have a hell of a great life. You owe that to whomever it was that didn't get picked for your spot in favor of you, all the patients you're not going to take care of and most of all yourself.

W19 said:
NP if you still want to practice nursing...
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TIFTFY
 
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Goro said:
There's always the US military. Or the National Guard. At least make a few bucks here and there.
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This. Accelerate your life, do more before 9 am than most people do all day. Learn some skills, get some technical and leadership experience, build a resume, build contacts, see the world and get paid to do it. Pay off some debt, make a few bucks, build your credit. Figure out what you want to be when you grow up. Or find out you like it and stay for 20-30 years. Happens all the time.

One of the Navy corpsman in my squadron is now a Medical Service Corps officer and loves what his life is all about.
 
I’m not in medical school yet (hopefully I get in this cycle), but if I were to drop out I could maybe see myself doing the whole fitness guru/boot camp/personal training thing.

I have a degree is exercise physiology and I lift 4 times a week and I’m getting pretty shreaded.

There are probably docs who body build as a hobby..
 
Most of the people I know who dropped out are still in healthcare, namely nursing and PA.
 
iqe2010 said:
I’m not in medical school yet (hopefully I get in this cycle), but if I were to drop out I could maybe see myself doing the whole fitness guru/boot camp/personal training thing.

I have a degree is exercise physiology and I lift 4 times a week and I’m getting pretty shreaded.

There are probably docs who body build as a hobby..
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Buddy of mine from my old squadron has his own gym in Chicago. Kettles bells, etc. He's happy as hell running his own business.
 
My close friend dropped out to run a startup (he was a BioE major in undergrad). He's living the life.
 
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