how hard is med school

[Umi]

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The extra pre-requisites and healthcare experience needed to apply will take you longer, and getting in to PA school is tougher...

I don't think this is true. Other opinions?

 

[aydinhatemi]

Somebody said PA is harder than MD. Holly cow!!! There is also another fellow who is discussing the merits of a PHD, and I believe he is a dental student at the same time. I have some question for those guys (ladies?)

1- This is a forum for allopathic medicine, what the hell are you doing here?

2- This is a clear sign of inferiority complex and freudian way of searching for approval due to inner dissatisfaction. These posts probably are coming from people who never made it (may be tried to be md's) and now coming back to bother MD's about their newly chosen paths.

3- If PA's can replace doctors, we will be in deep trouble
Opps hard to decide on this: 2 years education versus 7-9 years education. It is a tough call 😀 Unless they want to cut costs since PA's work for much less.
4- I think people wants to feel important
This forum is clearly for medical students and I respectfully request that PHD guy to move his conversation somewhere else.

 

[tkim]

Everybody relax.

And stop making the font so big. It's killing my eyes.

 

[zep]

Is it me or those it just seem weird to compare medical school and pHD programs. Its like apples and oranges. And saying that one is harder than the other is regressing us back to third grade.

Reason has entered the thread! This point is right on. The degrees are NOT comparable - period. If you criticize the PhD then you likely don?t have one, and if you criticize the MD, then you probably do not have one of those either. You will be hard pressed to find an MD/PhD that would say that either degree was easy.

One should speak only from experience, not from ignorance. That is bad practice.

 

[Green912]

It's not really comparing apples to orange. It's more like deciding if you want beat by a cane or beat by a whip. Either way you're in for some pain. 🙂

 

[tubbs]

i agree, if you're going into the health field, shoot for meds. as a PA you'll have endure an inferiority feeling for the rest of your career. PAs will never be an equal to docs, because of their shorter training and because docs will never let it happen and make you now it never will. you may be learning a lot of important stuff in PA school, but you won't be able to exercise that knowlege because you won't have that autonomy.

med school is demanding, but almost everyone makes it through. but you have to know that it's something that you want otherwise, you're going to be miserable for the rest of your life.

 

[scootad.]

med school isn't hard. but its hard work.