Problems during Medical Training

[Ausencia]

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Hi all

I am currently doing my medical school application, but I hope you won't feel I posted this in the wrong forum, since I needed to ask the opinion of people already in medical training..

There's a short essay question I need to answer that asks
'What would you expect to be the main problems faced by you during your training as a doctor?'

I'm having a hard time with this one, because I've already tried to prove in the previous questions that I really want to do Medicine, hence I won't change my mind, that I can manage a very heavy workload, so I can't say anything about long hours and also tried to convince them I have a lot of experience from voluntary work and I have already come across situations where patients die etc...

I can think of other problems I might face as well, but none that I would want to mention on an application...
What are the main problems you guys faced/face if any? Does anyone have any ideas as to what I could put down? 😕

 

[Seaglass]

Continuing as a student years and years after you've watched your friends move into sucessful jobs.

 

[FrankMD]

I second the fact that you have to watch your friends start a family and move on with their sucessful careers while you're in school for God knows how long...

I also think one of the hardest things in medicine, not just in medical traing, is dealing with very difficult patients who are completely ungrateful...and dealing with lawsuits...supposedly every doctor will get sued at least once in their life...

Another thing that's a little difficult during the clinical years is to find out what exactly is your role in the team since everyone has different expectation of what you are supposed to do...

Hope this helps.

 

[Discobolus]

This is probably not the type of thing to put in a med school application, but medical school sure has a way of bringing out anxiety and depression problems to the surface that you never knew you had.

 

[Ausencia]

Thanx for your help guys..

This is probably not the type of thing to put in a med school application, but medical school sure has a way of bringing out anxiety and depression problems to the surface that you never knew you had.

I know what you mean even though I'm not sure it's the same for everyone... I know for me though being in a top school doing a very demanding course definitely brings out depression and anxiety but I'm sort of hoping I've learned how to handle it by now...

 

[gatsbyjo]

This is what I would do: explain how much I respect the patient-doctor relationship, and the major role that relationship has on healing and other aspects of care; then I would explain how I know that it will be difficult for me to establish balance between my work-related relationships (patients) and my home relationships.

Im not trying to be cheesy, but this is a real concern for those of us that are more care-givers... I always want to take care of EVERYONE in my life and its hard... I think a big challenge for some people will be to make sure they have something left over at the end of the day for children/spouse... its my biggest fear in medicine, that i will spread myself to thin.

 

[KEC]

I think that as an MSI, one of the most difficult things is getting used to the lack of free time... I really miss my hubby!

 

[toofache32]

No time to run tail.