maybedoctor???
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Hello everyone! I need advice. I’m currently a pre med student about to start my junior year of college. I came into college wanting to go into medicine, but found I really loved neuroscience/ psychology, so I changed my mind and decided to pursue a career in research. I took a lot of statistics and research methods classes (which I loved and excelled in) along with getting involved in research with a psych professor and thought I was set.
Then I started looking into the job market for PhDs going into academics and it seemed like a mess, which turned me off to the idea of research as a career. After that I switched back to medicine (which I convinced myself I wanted to do).
Now I’m thinking about the classes I have to take for med school and I’m not deeply interested in a single one of them (except maybe biology). I’m a good student so I could do decently well in these classes, but they’re not my strongest subjects and certainly not where my interests/passions are. This has caused me to think again about working in research instead of medicine (maybe becoming a biostatistician), but I’m not sure if this is the right idea.
So my question is, do you think I should suck it up (for lack of a better term), get through the med school pre reqs and go on to be a doctor OR follow my interests/ skill set and go into research
Then I started looking into the job market for PhDs going into academics and it seemed like a mess, which turned me off to the idea of research as a career. After that I switched back to medicine (which I convinced myself I wanted to do).
Now I’m thinking about the classes I have to take for med school and I’m not deeply interested in a single one of them (except maybe biology). I’m a good student so I could do decently well in these classes, but they’re not my strongest subjects and certainly not where my interests/passions are. This has caused me to think again about working in research instead of medicine (maybe becoming a biostatistician), but I’m not sure if this is the right idea.
So my question is, do you think I should suck it up (for lack of a better term), get through the med school pre reqs and go on to be a doctor OR follow my interests/ skill set and go into research