A few days ago
Anonymous

After high school should I go to university abroad, then go to medical school back at home?

After high school I would like to be a doctor, but I want to experience somewhere else in the world. So I was thinking I should maybe go to university to get my bachelors degree in California (I live in Canada) or England or somewhere; then come back to Canada for medical school and the rest of my life. Or do the opposite, stay here for the degree, and go to medical school abroad? Can you move around the world with a medical degree? And how much do you think ALL my schooling will cost? Including my bachelors degree and medical school? Is going to medical school to be a doctor hard? And should I take all three sciences (chemistry, biology, and physics) in high school? Or is that too much?

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A few days ago
papyrusbtl

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You’ve got to break it down—plan only a year ahead, mentally and emotionally. You do not want to get “burned out”, and it’s really easy to do these days.

Just assume it will cost a lot, and be tedious, backbreaking, challenging work—you cannot do it all at once, so you shouldn’t be thinking about it all at once. What’s important in the long run is not only your final goal, but taking very good care of yourself (probably the first thing they will tell you in Medical School.).

Don’t worry about things you cannot control—but keep your basic goal in mind when you make daily decisions.

Whatever you do, though, don’t miss the opportunity to go to Europe for a vacation—it’s an important part of life, that you shouldn’t miss.

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A few days ago
Anonymous
I think you remain in Canada for your entire education. In California, you would be a foreign student paying nonresident tuition costs, which would be significantly higher than what you would pay in Canada. If you attended medical school outside of Canada you would be a foreign trained physician and in order to practice in Canada, you would have to pass more exams than if you were trained in Canada. Not that it’s a big problem, but the first exam is always the toughest and the chances of failure increase significantly with the lapse of time between your initial instruction and test time.

Once you have completed all of your medical education and training you could relocate to just about any country and be welcomed. Naturally, there are some countries that will welcome you with open arms and some countries that will make it a bit difficult for you to come practice there.

In the US, the average medical school student graduates with about $200,000 (US) worth of debt and, on average, retires that debt in 7 years.

The difficulty of medical school depends on you. If you have excellent study skills and the self discipline to study for 4-6 hours every day, then medical school is not difficult. But if you are the kind of student who needs to be led by the hand or expects everything to be either a multiple choice or True/False kind of world, then medical school isn’t for you. Learning medicine isn’t about how much you can memorize. Nobody is able to memorize all that there is to know. Medicine is understanding how the body functions. Is that hard? Nope. Thousands and thousands of people have done it and because of that, each year we learn a bit more about the body. After all these years and all the physicians, we still don’t know all there is to know about the human body. That’s why physicians have to accept the role of being a perpetual student.

I have mixed opinions about taking science classes in high school. On one hand, you might discover you have a real passion for the sciences and you have a good time learning new things. But high school science classes do not go too deeply into the subject matter, so it’s difficult to really grasp the subject and understand it. As a result, all you really do is end up memorizing a bunch of crap just to get a passing grade on an exam. If you do well with that, then go for it. Or, you can decide to leave the sciences for college where they really teach you the subject matter.

You might think that since you intend to go to medical school that a college is going to want to see that you have a heavy course load in the sciences. Wrong. Your initial application to a university is all about grades. All the propaganda aside, the university’s first screening process is a GPA. If you don’t make that cut, it doesn’t matter what else you have to say.

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4 years ago
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