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bosky said:What do pass and high pass correspond to? C and B respectively?
Are you replying to me? If so...bente said:Only 14 yrs 'til you're a radiologist!
It won't be anything like it is today. There will handheld mammography you can take to bars, many innovations!
Dude_Lebowski said:Ok now you people are scaring me. Lately I've been thinking about it, and the more I do, the more I like radiology. It's so wicked. My hobby for the past 6 years has been nothing but computers, photoshop, etc., I'm a tech geek like that. Fuse computers with imaging and medicine and you have radiology. And great money to boot. It's my dream job, literally.
I'm only a first year undergrad student who isn't even close to getting into vanilla medicine yet, but the more I think about it, the less I want to get stuck doing something other than radiology in the field of medicine.
TRUST me, I know I want rads.TheDudeabides said:
I like your style Dude. You might, however, be just a little premature in being so sure thats what you want to do. I think you've made a great choice obviously, but seriously, relax and slooow down. There is no need to worry about getting into rads right now. Just focus on jumping through hoop number 1...getting into medschool which has many little hoops to jump through in order to do that..MCAT etc. Your time will come, but not anytime soon.
The Dude Abides
Yea but I don't want to BS my way through my interviews either. I think the biggest hoop for me will be the interview. I'm too honest.TheDudeabides said:Note: and when it comes time to interview for medschool, don't tell them that the whole reason you want to go to medschool is to be a rad...that probably won't go over too well with the committee
Dude_Lebowski said:Yea but I don't want to BS my way through my interviews either. I think the biggest hoop for me will be the interview. I'm too honest.
Dude_Lebowski said:TRUST me, I know I want rads.
Yeah, all those hoops have me scared. I always tend to think way too far ahead though, and scare myself with a "there's so many hoops and I'm bound to stumble at some", and "holy crap there's so many smart people out there with the bigger stats than me etc., there's no way I'll make it". I wish I couldn't think ahead like that, it's annoying.
Yea but I don't want to BS my way through my interviews either. I think the biggest hoop for me will be the interview. I'm too honest.
I've spent many full days with different rads actually. And it's not that I "like computers" etc. I've always been good at the whole logical steps to solving a problem/figuring something out deal... sticking to an algorithm, but deviating from it ("thinking outside the box") if necessary. I'm also good in arts and such, I'm good with visuals, and I nitpick A LOT with ANYTHING, especially if its required, so I could imagine being a good radiologist. I also like medicine in general because it's science that helps people, and it's always getting better.Jeff05 said:you're a first year in undergrad and you KNOW you want rads?! and you're afraid of getting stuck in something else?! you haven't see anything else...and you probably haven't spent a whole day with a radiologist either. cut it out. i would urge you to keep an open mind. more than 75% of people change their mind about specialty choice during med school (many of them several times), as well as during residency. it's great that you like computers, but that's not what the job's about. it's like one saying that he loves scalpels and is therefore going into surgery.