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This is something that I have always wondered and I'd like to get some feedback.
If someone starts medicine later in life, let's say completed an IM residency at 42 will their career as a doctor be much different than someone who completed an IM residency at 25?
In other words, will those 17 years of experience in the field make the younger doctor that much better of a doctor over the course of their whole career where the older doctor is essentially playing "catch up" as it relates to experience?
Am I looking at it in the wrong way?
I'm thinking of taking the MCAT and applying to DO programs and I figure I would be 42 or 43 by the time I would be done with an IM residency. If money was not an issue with this decision, are there any other concerns I should have about this path?
If someone starts medicine later in life, let's say completed an IM residency at 42 will their career as a doctor be much different than someone who completed an IM residency at 25?
In other words, will those 17 years of experience in the field make the younger doctor that much better of a doctor over the course of their whole career where the older doctor is essentially playing "catch up" as it relates to experience?
Am I looking at it in the wrong way?
I'm thinking of taking the MCAT and applying to DO programs and I figure I would be 42 or 43 by the time I would be done with an IM residency. If money was not an issue with this decision, are there any other concerns I should have about this path?