Fair enough...but to be honest, I have had enough experience at almost every level of income, with grueling work weeks, crappy cars that don't start, and terrible emr systems that I feel comfortable with the statements I have made.
You...um, wow. Read up in the MilMed forums so that you sound a little less like you are making things up. Not that I'm advocating going into HPSP...I think it's a terrible plan for anyone who isn't strongly interested in the military as well as med...just. Wow.I want to be a dermatologist, and army/navy/airforce takes doctors who are family practice docs, and also those who specialize in injury medicine or something. Something where they go abroad to iraq to cure injuries of soliders. NOT something I wanna doI want to be a dermatologist and deal with teenagers' zits. Plus easy lifestyle+great pay. I wanna have kids too, maybe during residency or after, but at age 30 I'm starting no matter what. Don't wanna be infertile later on and end up hating my life
Actaully the Armed forces takes all types of doctors from all specialties, however, I realize you dont really want to do that and that is fine. There are many ways to pay back those loans. Like I said before, just do your best and if you are sitting pretty in a few years you will be able to land a scholarship or two to help out in easing the burden. Best of luck and watch out for Orgo!I want to be a dermatologist, and army/navy/airforce takes doctors who are family practice docs, and also those who specialize in injury medicine or something. Something where they go abroad to iraq to cure injuries of soliders. NOT something I wanna do
I just don't want to travel around too much with the military. I want to be in one place, one state, and have the option of working 3/4 time so that I can raise my future children thoroughly without having to rely on a babysitter for most of the time.
I'm not a troll. I don't understand, why do you think I am a troll? What makes me a troll? What is so wrong with what I say? Yeah, so I want to do derm. I will enjoy it, and have enough time to raise kids as well. I am not the kind of person who can "focus everything in my entire freaking life" to just a career. It's a freaking career, people! Do something you enjoy, but you need a leisure life too. Being a derm provides me with both, so I don't freaking see how the hell you consider me to be a troll. I don't understand what is wrong with my thinking? I don't want to travel around for military requirements and get sent to iraq, or some rural area! I want to live where I freaking want to live, in a good area in a city, where my children can go to a good school and participate in meaningful sports, like I was never able to do when I was a child. I also don't want to be one of those parents who is never home because of career. I am doing this career only HALF for me, and the other half for my future children, so they will never be as isolated as I was during childhood. My life is not a career, my life is my life. If i wanna do derm I do derm. All I'm looking for on this forum is the advice I ASK for, not the advice I don't ask for (such as how to live my life, and what choices I should make). No, I am looking only for advice that helps me achieve the choices I already am choosing. I don't understand why I am getting so much bashing. It is my life, and if I have to, I will bust ass to get into a great med school, and bust ass in med school to get into dermatology, and I will do MD/PhD if that means not taking out loans and giving more money to my future children, and a higher chance of getting into derm. Then, I will work 3/4 time as a dermatologist while raising my future children and providing for them. Ok? All I am looking on this forum is for advice regarding my questions, not my choices. People tell me not to do MD/PhD because "you're too selfish, the uni will spend so much money on you and you will go into private practice" blah blah blah. Do you know what? The universities are rich, and we people are poor. So it's not your decision about who is selfish and who is not.
No need to apologize, it was my fault for not being clearer in the beginning. Thank you thoughOOH I didn't read that part. Sorry sterling
(No seriously though, its a good thing I was born to a generation that has google)
What is so wrong about this? Please explain. Am I just extra competition that you dont like?
Because you're annoying, naive, arrogant, and presumptuous.
Because we can already hear the reallllly annoying "OMG guys my life is so ruined because I didn't get into Harvard for free so now I can't do derm which is MY LIFE'S AMBITION even though I don't know what it really entails!" thread and it burns our ears.
What is so bad about planning ahead? Yes, im arrogant. But naive+presumptious=planning ahead.
But thats not how I phrase my questions. My end goal is derm, and to be debt free to give my children the support they want.
Not in the slightest. Planning ahead doesn't mean you're being naive. If anything, planning ahead expresses a lack of naivety. As for being presumptuous, that isn't necessarily the case. I wouldn't say both are too intertwined however. I feel like you're biting off a bit more than you can chew at this point. You have a goal. Stick with it. Research it. Learn about it. Perhaps not make a thread for every question you have. If you're truly devoted to a career path, you'll be needing to do the research anyways.
I want to be a dermatologist, and army/navy/airforce takes doctors who are family practice docs, and also those who specialize in injury medicine or something. Something where they go abroad to iraq to cure injuries of soliders. NOT something I wanna do
And thats is why I ask questions to learn about it. I dont want to hear how "i'll never make it because ts too competitive", no, i want to know what ittakes to achieve my dream, even if it is unlikely in terms of statistics. Gosh, people. "You dont know about it, so dont ask about it'. Um, the point of these things called "questions" is to ask about something you dont know about. *gasp*.
Um, i have already been in college for 2 years, but deciding to go on a 5 year plan and taking 3 more years to graduate. I have known even before I started college that I wanted to be a doctor.
I understand that I am arrogant and selfish, and a narcissist. The only way to convince me not to pursue something, is to tell me why it wouldnt benefit me personally. I dont give a flying pig about how a rich university wasted 0.001 % of their monthly income on educating me forfree. I dont care about other people who would be "better candidates". The only way to convince me not to do something, is to tell me how it wouldnt benefit me personally. If it benefits me personally, then I will not care what kind of inconvenience that causes to others. Survival of the fittest and it's a dog eat dog world.
That's not the point I was trying to make. What I'm saying is that, you cannot possibly fathom the amount of blood, sweat, and tears that goes into actually achieving such a feat. You're striking a nerve with this thread because you graze through this territory so whimsically. You should really worry about merely getting into ANY medical school, let alone getting any scholarships from top tier schools and landing a dermatology residency... but no worries, you'll understand the reality of it all the further along you walk on this path.
troll -.-
Um, no I am not. If I were a troll, I'd have better things to do than post on the student DOCTOR network. Especially 25 threads that are good med related questions.
I want to be a dermatologist, and army/navy/airforce takes doctors who are family practice docs, and also those who specialize in injury medicine or something. Something where they go abroad to iraq to cure injuries of soliders. NOT something I wanna do
hSDN is quite a bit better than this. This isn't the type of content that any SDN reader should have to encounter, regardless of age.
Apparently yes. Acceptances for everyone!!
So you are a psychopath?
Hmmm. Well,, if I dont match into derm, I will also try for radiology. Pm&r sounds like it doesnt have a bad lifestyle either, so thats not out of the question. I dont think I would enjoy family medicine though. I have to match into something specialized with a good lifestyle and pay.
