A query for Doctors or medical students?
I'm curious. Before you started medical school, did you know which area of medicine you needed to specialise in? If not, at what point during your career did you decide?
Thankyou
Rhianna
Answers:
No, undeniably not. There are over 70 different areas of medicine and surgery to specialise in and life up to that time medicine doesn't give you any exposure to the vast majority of them. Most populace know about general practice, general surgery and what they see on TV hospital drama and that's something like it. My favourite subject in my first year was embryology and nouns, and then in third year I fell in love beside pathology. I'm now a pathologist. I didn't enjoy clinical medicine (contact next to patients) at all and that's the beauty of medicine-there is something for every personality type. If you love maths and abhor people, medical statistics or epidemiology would be perfect for you. If you like working beside huge amounts of general data rather than specific cases-public form. If you love microbes and identifying parasites-microbiology. If you want to get involved in every aspect of your patients vivacity and follow them through for years and do preventative medicine-general practice.
Of course you already know my story sweetie,from the age of about 13 I wanted to be Dr Finlay and practice in Tannochbrae, . While I be at medical school I was attracted to the glamour of surgery and I spent about 3 years, after I finished my house job, going in that direction before I accepted it be not for me. By that time General Practice had again become the 'in' specialty and vocational training,which took an extra 3 years had just started. When I finished my GP rotation I finished up in a village practice,which is not a million miles from the real 'Arden House', its certainly in Callander in Perthshire. Source(s): GP for more years than I care to remember
I just need there was a dedicated specialist for haemochromatosis, at present you any see a physician in gastroenterology, or an endocrinologist, and if you have the condition you are then passed to a haematologist for vena section,would anyone out there please consider specialising in this area as it is definately needed
My brother decided before he went to medical institution that he wanted to be a surgeon. He enjoyed disecting things in biology.
As a medical student he be steered away from wielding the knife, but they haven't managed to preserve him out of the operating theatre. He is now a senior consultant anaesthetist.
OMG no. I though I wanted to be a pediatrician. (I was a new mom)
My pediatrics rotation cured me of that, and soon. Once I discovered anesthesiology, it was all over. I was within love. And still am. :)
I be a paramedic for 3 months before deciding it wasn't what I wanted to do forever. My motherliness leave as a paramedic is almost over. My certification is due soon too. So very soon, I won't be a paramedic anymore. I plan on returning to institution for midwifery when the young one is weaned, walking and talking:)
Hi Rhianna,
I own started Medical School & I still have no idea what area I want to specialise contained by. All I do know is that I want to diagnose and treat. I could not be anything else but a Doctor. It is in that knowledge that consoles me, when I reflect on my aims and realise I don't even so have a specialised
area I want to go into.
I am indisputable though that the time will come on this very difficult journey when I will just know what the right direction is for me. It will come to me and for the moment I am not stressing over it.
Medicine for me is a track of life and a way of thinking that I could not exchange for anything in the world. The price is big and the sacrifices are many. Whatever specialised area I may find myself surrounded by I hope that it will be one where I can contribute most to my patients.
I wish you much success within this Journey. Source(s): Medical Student
I though I did! I really wanted to be family doctor, but when I finished my clerk ships in psychiatry I know it was for me. A lot of people 'know' what kind of doctor they want to be, not true at adjectives. You have to actually do it in my assessment.
Its never that simple. Most people dance into med school with some sort of idea contained by mind but are sort of steered down some other paths later on.. i wanted to be a pediatrician but am presently considering being a haematologist ;p I think most of us do this cos you never really know what each speciality entail til you are in it! funnily enough, most people do know what they DON'T wanna be and pretty much sticks to that thru med university. goodluck!
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Thankyou
Rhianna
Answers:
No, undeniably not. There are over 70 different areas of medicine and surgery to specialise in and life up to that time medicine doesn't give you any exposure to the vast majority of them. Most populace know about general practice, general surgery and what they see on TV hospital drama and that's something like it. My favourite subject in my first year was embryology and nouns, and then in third year I fell in love beside pathology. I'm now a pathologist. I didn't enjoy clinical medicine (contact next to patients) at all and that's the beauty of medicine-there is something for every personality type. If you love maths and abhor people, medical statistics or epidemiology would be perfect for you. If you like working beside huge amounts of general data rather than specific cases-public form. If you love microbes and identifying parasites-microbiology. If you want to get involved in every aspect of your patients vivacity and follow them through for years and do preventative medicine-general practice.
Of course you already know my story sweetie,from the age of about 13 I wanted to be Dr Finlay and practice in Tannochbrae, . While I be at medical school I was attracted to the glamour of surgery and I spent about 3 years, after I finished my house job, going in that direction before I accepted it be not for me. By that time General Practice had again become the 'in' specialty and vocational training,which took an extra 3 years had just started. When I finished my GP rotation I finished up in a village practice,which is not a million miles from the real 'Arden House', its certainly in Callander in Perthshire. Source(s): GP for more years than I care to remember
I just need there was a dedicated specialist for haemochromatosis, at present you any see a physician in gastroenterology, or an endocrinologist, and if you have the condition you are then passed to a haematologist for vena section,would anyone out there please consider specialising in this area as it is definately needed
My brother decided before he went to medical institution that he wanted to be a surgeon. He enjoyed disecting things in biology.
As a medical student he be steered away from wielding the knife, but they haven't managed to preserve him out of the operating theatre. He is now a senior consultant anaesthetist.
OMG no. I though I wanted to be a pediatrician. (I was a new mom)
My pediatrics rotation cured me of that, and soon. Once I discovered anesthesiology, it was all over. I was within love. And still am. :)
I be a paramedic for 3 months before deciding it wasn't what I wanted to do forever. My motherliness leave as a paramedic is almost over. My certification is due soon too. So very soon, I won't be a paramedic anymore. I plan on returning to institution for midwifery when the young one is weaned, walking and talking:)
Hi Rhianna,
I own started Medical School & I still have no idea what area I want to specialise contained by. All I do know is that I want to diagnose and treat. I could not be anything else but a Doctor. It is in that knowledge that consoles me, when I reflect on my aims and realise I don't even so have a specialised
area I want to go into.
I am indisputable though that the time will come on this very difficult journey when I will just know what the right direction is for me. It will come to me and for the moment I am not stressing over it.
Medicine for me is a track of life and a way of thinking that I could not exchange for anything in the world. The price is big and the sacrifices are many. Whatever specialised area I may find myself surrounded by I hope that it will be one where I can contribute most to my patients.
I wish you much success within this Journey. Source(s): Medical Student
I though I did! I really wanted to be family doctor, but when I finished my clerk ships in psychiatry I know it was for me. A lot of people 'know' what kind of doctor they want to be, not true at adjectives. You have to actually do it in my assessment.
Its never that simple. Most people dance into med school with some sort of idea contained by mind but are sort of steered down some other paths later on.. i wanted to be a pediatrician but am presently considering being a haematologist ;p I think most of us do this cos you never really know what each speciality entail til you are in it! funnily enough, most people do know what they DON'T wanna be and pretty much sticks to that thru med university. goodluck!
Nope, but Thought About What Looked Interesting. I Finally Decided to Pursue Ophthalmology, Because it Encompassed So Much.
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