Why?
Lol, ASAP?
I'll definetly take your advice
Yea that's pretty good advice. Do you think the program would accept me if I finished high school a year earlier?
Ok thank you so much that was some amazing advice ☺It seems like you're dreaming of being a doctor ASAP, but since you're still young, there are some things to consider. If you do want to graduate high school in 3 years, great. But I would recommend taking that extra year and travel or do something that you love. It might seem like a big deal now, "wasting" a year, but I guarantee it won't matter if you become a doctor at age 25 or 26. What will be memorable is if you taking that time to explore the world or go and do some shadowing or volunteering to see if this is really something you can commit to for the rest of your life. I don't know too much about the combined BS/MD or BS/DO schools, but I do know that when you apply for med school (after graduating college) they want to see that you have been exposed to the medical field. You can't just get into med school with a good gpa and MCAT score, you need a lot of extracurricular activities. They want to see that you have other life experiences, hobbies, etc.
On a side note, I took some time off after I graduated college and traveled for almost a year (backpacking through some diff countries) before I started medical school. It was the best experience of my life and I would NEVER regret. I also took some of that time and did medical internships overseas, and I always got asked about that during my interviews! Med schools want to see that while you may love medicine, you also have a life outside of it and things you like to do so you don't burn out.
Also, don't go into medical schools having regrets! "I wish I had done that before med school"
Because after you start, you won't have time! It's a lot easier to take the time off now to travel or whatever you want to do after high school or college than after med school.
Don't feel so rushed!
I agree with what you said but I think one reason people get burned out from studying is because the process is so long in the US.It seems like you're dreaming of being a doctor ASAP, but since you're still young, there are some things to consider. If you do want to graduate high school in 3 years, great. But I would recommend taking that extra year and travel or do something that you love. It might seem like a big deal now, "wasting" a year, but I guarantee it won't matter if you become a doctor at age 25 or 26. What will be memorable is if you taking that time to explore the world or go and do some shadowing or volunteering to see if this is really something you can commit to for the rest of your life. I don't know too much about the combined BS/MD or BS/DO schools, but I do know that when you apply for med school (after graduating college) they want to see that you have been exposed to the medical field. You can't just get into med school with a good gpa and MCAT score, you need a lot of extracurricular activities. They want to see that you have other life experiences, hobbies, etc.
On a side note, I took some time off after I graduated college and traveled for almost a year (backpacking through some diff countries) before I started medical school. It was the best experience of my life and I would NEVER regret. I also took some of that time and did medical internships overseas, and I always got asked about that during my interviews! Med schools want to see that while you may love medicine, you also have a life outside of it and things you like to do so you don't burn out.
Also, don't go into medical schools having regrets! "I wish I had done that before med school"
Because after you start, you won't have time! It's a lot easier to take the time off now to travel or whatever you want to do after high school or college than after med school.
Don't feel so rushed!
As I fellow high-school student I'd personally go for it. However, I'd also advice you to take into consideration what those with more experience than either of us have to say.
Do you know what KIND of doctor and where you want to practice? The answer to this is often no even for entering med students.
What kind of doctor though?
Isn't DO the same thing as MD, what doors will open
And if I get into the "linked program" I could work my butt off as you said and maybe get an amazing mcat score and then go to an MD program even though now one has told me how MD is better than DO
Some residencies are virtually impossible to get into as a DO moving forward- derm, plastics, neurosurg, rad onc, ENT, etc are basically off the table. A lot of academic positions and residencies are completely barred to you.
Internal medicine then cardio fellowship
Internal medicine then cardio fellowship in NY
It's doable, but much harder. And you should also keep in mind that your interests might change- cardiology is a very rough field, and a lot of people tend to be turned off by it as they go through training. So not only are you setting yourself up for a much more difficult time getting into cardiology, but also into every other specialty you might fall for. Don't do this, take it from someone who's made the mistake of trying to save a year (for different reasons) and all the people that have come before me- it isn't worth it most of the time.
NYITCOM had a 100% match this year but obviously that changes. I want to know if I should try going into a BS/MD program or if I should graduate college in three years then go into med school if I decide not to go to NYITCOM.
Not all matches are equal. They may all be matching, but if you compare their list to any US MD school, you'll quickly note that the quality of their matches is substantially lacking. You will not match a good university IM program in NYC coming out of NYCOM, but you might be able to get something in Albany, Rochester, or Buffalo if you play your cards very well.
The process is long and short at the same time. It is long because we technically have "8 years" of pre-med (our bachelor's degree) and med school combined, whereas most overseas schools are 6 or so years. At the same time it is short because our first 4 years in university getting our bachelor's is pretty much just a waste of time, and we have to cram everything into the first two years of med school. We can major in anything we want in college and only have to take the specific pre-requisite courses, and we then have to learn EVERYTHING that we need to know in the first two years of med school, since the last two is going to be rotations in clinics and hospitals. So many people burn out because the amount of information that is crammed into the first two years is too much to handle. I'm so envious of people overseas lol, they don't have to apply twice either (once for college and once for med school).
Not so much. People get burned out because they zone in on premed way too early and don't take the time to see what other options might be out there. And they certainly don't get burned out because of the high school college end of it, they get burned out by the grueling end, which OP is actually trying to rush into earlier, before s/he is ready.
Exactly, I'm jealous of my relatives overseas who get to take actual classes relative to medicine and actually figure out if medicine is right for them while we waste time doing "pre-med" which is not a good preview of medicine. This is why medical schools now have more requirements such as shadowing, hands on experiences and the average matriculant age is going up. You wouldn't have to take a year off to figure out what you want if you started learning much of the basic medical curriculum early on.
Yea I am probably just gonna go to a good 4 year school then go to med school or look at MD accelerated schools.
Why? Some people here are saying don't do it but are not even telling me the reason. Smh
Ok I will definitely look into it more
Don't listen to me because you regard me as a celebrity - I'm not. But you can listen to me because I've been through college and med school and have a pretty good idea of what you are getting yourself into and the right way to go about it.
The reasons have already been well elaborated by others in this thread. Regardless of how it's done elsewhere in the world the idea of committing to medical training at 18 is a poor one, especially at the cost of a year of high school and with the goal of a specific IM subspecialty in a specific city--you're almost bound to end up disappointed.
I'm actually am not sure about what I want to do for residency but I know I want to do it in New York or Long Island or anywhere in a 1 hour radius. I actually have heard that dos have BETTER chances at getting into residencies because the fact they can take the COMLEX and the USMLE soo... Idk but I have to make up my mind now...
No, you've been misinformed. The more you post the more it becomes clear that you have very little understanding of how things work with regards to medical school and residency applications. This is exactly why you should wait and go through the process as a regular applicant once you've finished high school and done undergrad. You'll have a much better idea of what you want and how to get there with those intervening years of experience and maturity.
Um no. At the present date allopathic med school grads fare better in applying to ACGME residencies regardless of what tests a DO has taken. DOs have their own residencies but they are fewer and most osteo grads end up trying for something in the allo match. And if you decide you want something more competitive in the allo match you'll have a much harder road as a DO, in some fields it may still be near impossible. So basically you'll have funneled yourself into a fairly narrow range of potential residencies in order to save a year in what may be a 40+ year career. By contrast if you went to a good 4 year college and did well, you'd have many more choices of med schools and ultimately residencies.
Kek, people that take the super fast road are often far more emotionally stunted than those that go the normal route. There is no substitute for life experience, and it's a hard thing to make up when your peers are lightyears ahead of you and have little tolerance for your relative immaturity.
