How old will you be when you start medicine?

[Genevieve]

I'll be 22 if I get in 1st time and 26/27 when I finish depending if I do GEM or 5yr

[SupraSpinatous]

I'll be 21 i i get a 2009 place. 25/6 when i graduate.
Soooooooo worth it i reckon

[Rachel_bluesky]

If I get in for the next academic year, I will be 25...29/30 when I graduate.

[dotvicky]

Originally Posted by latestarter

I'll be 37 if I get in this time and so 41 when I graduate... now what are you lot worried about?!

Originally Posted by Fizzwizz

I was 38 when I started ... gulp!

Yay! Some more *proper* old people.

I'll be 34 when I start... *if* I start... omgwhatdoIdoifIcan'tdothis.

I've worked out that I'll be at least 50 by the time I make it to consultant... and I'm absolutely thrilled by the idea - finally a job where you genuinely get paid to learn. I also love that I'm coming to it now - all my friends who are doctors love their job but sometimes I think they worry that it's all they've ever known. After the heart-stopping debt and brain-breaking hard 5 years of study, I'll be in a similar position to them but also know what the 'other side' is like... and know I'm in the right place rather than just think I am (as they do).

Cheers
Vicky

[iheartmedicine]

Originally Posted by dotvicky

Yay! Some more *proper* old people.

I'll be 34 when I start... *if* I start... omgwhatdoIdoifIcan'tdothis.

I've worked out that I'll be at least 50 by the time I make it to consultant... and I'm absolutely thrilled by the idea - finally a job where you genuinely get paid to learn. I also love that I'm coming to it now - all my friends who are doctors love their job but sometimes I think they worry that it's all they've ever known. After the heart-stopping debt and brain-breaking hard 5 years of study, I'll be in a similar position to them but also know what the 'other side' is like... and know I'm in the right place rather than just think I am (as they do).

Cheers
Vicky

It's good to have tried some other things and to come to medicine later in life, I think. I agree with you on your last point. You have to make many sacrifices to study medicine, so there is no way in he££ that you would be doing it unless you were certain that you could cope with it and were willing to take on the career (both good and bad parts). This is especially true once you have grown accustomed to having a regular income.

[Gizmo says -]

you lattestarters should definitely get some practice at essay writing, basic maffs and some form of timed response papers if you been out of education for a while.

remember that med courses are built for skool leavers, and skool leavers already ave ad about ten years plus of this afore they started, so its worth putting in three months of steady study to get your 'ead in the right gears again.

sum skills like essay writing, or just plain writing speed, tek time to come back, and it can be a nightmare to find you need a month to get your writing speed and stamina back up to skool standard for long essays, when your essay exam is the next day.

[iheartmedicine]

-Gizmo

Are you a medical student?

[kizdxb]

oo iheartmedicine your onto NMM very tough topic asking about gizmos identity.....

[kizdxb]

but i still dunno why u keep calling me kidzdxb giz...its obviously kiz,

[iheartmedicine]

Well it is only fair of me to ask. Why should said GIZMO collect our data and not share.