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Why do you want to be a doctor?
enlighten me please.
enlighten me please.
Why do you want to be a doctor?
enlighten me please.
i don't, i want to acquire the necessary knowledge and experience to help mend illness and develop new devices and informatic systems to allow doctors to spend more time with patients.
Well put from an engineer!!!
lol hahaa, well thank you? haha well if that wasn't what i wanted to do why would i go for a MD/PHD
True. As an engineer, I have the same aspirations!
Well put from an engineer!!!
I'm sorry but as an engineer who is currently in the process of applying to MD/PhD programs, I have to doubt your assertion that "I don't [want to be a doc]" will get you in anywhere. Not to hijack this thread, but why pursue an MD degree when a PhD will probably suit you just fine to do the research you want to do?
Why do you want to be a doctor?
enlighten me please.
If you can't come up with you're own answer for this question then start thinking of anothe profession
If you can't come up with you're own answer for this question then start thinking of anothe profession
Why do you want to be a doctor?
enlighten me please.
I'm sorry but as an engineer who is currently in the process of applying to MD/PhD programs, I have to doubt your assertion that "I don't [want to be a doc]" will get you in anywhere. Not to hijack this thread, but why pursue an MD degree when a PhD will probably suit you just fine to do the research you want to do?
"The same four reasons that everybody does: chicks, money, power, and chicks."
C'mon, don't you watch TV?
Dr.Cox said:"I became a doctor for the same four reasons that everybody does - chicks, money, power and chicks."
yes i am going to try to develop a device to treat cancer or imagine the brain, without knowing what your imaging. how do you partcipate in translational science if you only understand well science. yes, i will write a program to help doctors process unnecessary for patient records, without knowing what is necessary. there are a lot more you can do with a MD degree than just, well practicing medicine. if that is all you had in mind, then why get the PHD. additionally, getting a MD decreases language, understanding, and communication barriers in working with the medical field.
lol xenon, i don't mean to criticize you or anything, but i feel thinking that your going to become a doctor with a MD degree is well very traditional. i seriously doubt the OP mind me stealing the thread hehe he owes me one.
Agree. It is critical that you have an answer to this question of your own reasoning/genesis. If you don't have some strong compelling reason for becoming a doctor other than one that can be satisfied by going into another field, you are wasting your time. Only go into medicine if you WANT to practice medicine. And you can only base this want after some degree of exposure to the field. So sounds like you (OP) have some work to do before you are ready to apply.
If you can't come up with you're own answer for this question then start thinking of another profession
If you can't come up with you're own answer for this question then start thinking of anothe profession
Someone earlier said "as long as you don't say 'I want to help people'". I think that post had been edited out (TPRorgotutor was that you?)
Why is that a bad answer?
~Silk and Steel
i wanna be a doctor (surgeon) because i want to cut people and get away with it.
There are so many ways to help people. You need to explain why you want to help people medically.
To answer this question, give examples from your clinical experience volunteering. If you can't give examples, then you really don't know why you want to become a doctor.
I eat out a lot, but I really don't know a lot about what it means to spend my life as a chef.Clinical exposure -- shadowing, working in a hospital, etc -- is so over rated when it comes to "discovering" medicine. I mean, I shadow a doctor every time I go to the doctor!