Doomed if I did, doomed if I didn't

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[MDRus]

doomed in the interview?😳

doomed that you'll never get into med school?🙁

or doomed to everlasting hellfire and damnation?

 

[Nookular]

Do you still only want to go into it because its the most challenging and you HAVE to pick? If so, yes you are doomed.

Even if you didn't have good reasons at first, hopefully you have developed some. You don't have to mention that you just got into it because you had to pick something, but you could if you want. Maybe a little bit of "although I had initially chosen pre-med for the challenge, as I ______ and ______ I realized that the ________ and _________ embody my desire to ________."

 

[FlowLimited]

Do you still only want to go into it because its the most challenging and you HAVE to pick? If so, yes you are doomed.

Even if you didn't have good reasons at first, hopefully you have developed some. You don't have to mention that you just got into it because you had to pick something, but you could if you want. Maybe a little bit of "although I had initially chosen pre-med for the challenge, as I ______ and ______ I realized that the ________ and _________ embody my desire to ________."

In fact, if you really want to impress med schools, leave in the blanks. Then the folks reviewing your file can have some real fun...Mad Libs style.

 

[Manyac86]

If that's your only motivation, are you sure you want to go into medicine? I don't think it matters why you initially wanted to go into medicine. What matters is that after doing some sort of clinical/shadowing etc you feel motivated. It's your life.

I got into premed without much thought. The day I declared it as my option I was not thinking about caring for future patients, nor was I thinking about the money. It was just time to choose a path, and I chose what I thought was the most challenging.

I don't think this is a very good answer to the "Why medicine?" question.

Would I be BS'ing my interviewers if I said anything other than what I was thinking the day I chose premed, even if I had an epiphany later on?

In other words, am I doomed? 😕

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

Personally, if someone told me "Yeah, I got into medicine for the wrong reasons initially" and then explained that they had a realitization later on that this really was something they should be doing, I'd think that person was more self actualized than the standard "I've always wanted to help people and medicine lets me do that" answer. But then again, that's me and some admissions people DO just want to hear the sugar coated truth again and again and again and any hint of negativity is a red flag.

 

[Bartelby]

I agree with the above posters (especially about the Mad Libs thing). The question is not "why did you want to become premed three years ago," it is "why do you want to become a physician?" If you have solid reasons now, you should be fine.

 

[Dendrite]

Just make sure to have that epiphany before finishing your primary statement and in any interviews, because that question comes up everywhere.

You'll be fine in that case.