Pllzzzzzzz Help Current Medicine Students

[complexmark]

Hi,

i really need some help in deciding whether i should apply for medicine or not and only have about a week lefttttttttt to decide,

what i really want to know is, how intense is this degree, so if anyone who is reading this who is currently studing medicine, could you please help me.

when i mean intense, what i mean is how much work do you have to put in, now everyone who i have spoken to (non medicine students thou) say that it is very intense, and now ive got it in to my head that my years at uni would be spent like this:

Monday - Friday:

mornings = Go to lectures and lessons

afternoons = Studing books to research info in lectures + lessons, (im guessing that you dont get any notes in the lectures, and im not very good at writing my own, im one of those people who carnt listen and understand work while writing stuff down).

Weekend = Either researching more, like for assignments, or catching up again in lectures + lessons.

And then of corse, revising for tests aswell.

so medicine students, is it really like this, i thought id also mention that i cannot be arsed with loads of tests, lol i couldnt even be bothered to do any work for the end of topic tests for instance in a- level chemsitry, so hopefully i wont have to revise every week or so if i do medicine.

plzzzzzz reply someone as i only have about a week left,
i wasnt sure where to post this, so if ives posted it in the wrong place could you tell me where to put it.

[Gizmo says -]

you're not ready - dont apply, i reckun, although of course i dont know you frmo one post...its all i got to answer on.

becos you're asking the wrong questions, macca.

its the fifty five years after qualifying that you shuld be querying.

[complexmark]

cheers for replying so quick,

im not concerned with the years after qualifying because i know that with a medicine degree you have loads of choices to what to go into.

[Gizmo says -]

well now dubbly so, no.

you've clearly ave no idea why you want to study medicine.

dont apply.
suggestion - go do some work experience that 'elps you decide if you want a medical career immediately, as opposed to work experience to satisfy ucas requirements, or you are more than likely setting yourself up for lifetime of misery.

[complexmark]

lol, this is my problem, ive been thinkin, thinkin .... and thinkin of what courses to do and still carnt decide, after searching the interent for days, do some work experience the only things i liked were, working in a hosipal, and forensic science, but i dont want to do forensic science becuase you dont need good grades (and moneys not good lol), which i think is a waste as i should get straight A's in my A-levels in the hardist subjects you can do.
and please note, that i cannot take a gap year.

[Gizmo says -]

****in ellfire

no wonda the med skools are clammed up wif unsuitable students whilst much betta applicants dont get a sniff.

sorri, i'm outta ere this fread is way too dumb even for moi.

[St.Elsewhere]

Hi 'complex'

I would suggest that you post your original message/thread in the 'Current Medical Students' forum...under the 'Medical Students' section. You'll get a far better response there. Its mostly only access students that use this section of the forum, and as such, we are not quite medical students yet.

In the words of Ben Stiller in Starsky&Hutch.. "Do it!"

[complexmark]

i dont mean to be ****in aggressive, but what the ****, if you read my first post i clearly asked for CURRENT MEDICINE STUDENTS, which u "Gizmo" are not, so piss off,

so anyone else who is a medicine student, could you plzzzzzzzz reply, as i only have a week to decide (btw i kno i want to do medicine, i just need to find out how much work im gonna have to put in)

[complexmark]

hay, thanks st. elsewhere, ill just do that now

[happyfacedani]

Surely it shouldnt matter how many hours you have to put in if it's what you really want to do. I'd want to study medicine whether it was 2 hours reading a day or 10. You need to think about the reasons you want to do medicine. If you were a patient, would you want a doctor who was only in it for the money? Do you really think doctors turn up at 9am and leave at 5pm monday to friday? Do you realise that as you go through medical school your terms get longer and your holidays get shorter? Do you realise that after you graduate from medical school you have to take more exams and that you wont pass them if you cant be bothered to revise?