Why a Doctor?

[Vixter]

they will remember you if you cock up as well but thats by the by

bert

LMAO

[Eponine_hugo]

LMOA??? Oh dear - I feel so old!!!

[bert]

laughing my ass off

but it sounds a touch sarcastic to my ear

bert

[mel87]

i suppose saying "i want to help" is oversaid, but how you deliver it could make all the difference. instead of just saying "i want to help"...putting in a very good example of you doing just that will help your case. my 2 cents worth....

what helps heaps is the enthusiasm when delivering your answer (body language and facial expression, tone of voice).....dont go all twitchy or sqeaky on your interviewer though.....eek

[ohler]

i gotta second what mel said. IF they're interviewing loads of people they will probably come across the same reasons as yours or at least something like it, so i think you just got let go,let all the enthusiasm and desire you have to become a doctor out.

I think this question why do you want to be a doctor? is definatley the most important. It forces everyone who has always said i want to be a doctor to address the actually reasons why they want this career. Like a load of other people i found it hard to put a fealing into words, but is a feeling enough of a reason to want to do medicine? I think you need specifics,which work experience will prob help with.

Commentin on somethin that was said before about the admissions process being a game that you just gotta know how to play: i think this is true to a certain extent, it is easy to put in your time volunteering,research what a good doctor is,basically build up a ps and interview answers that they want to hear. And in fairness that is grand, but i think it comes back again to the question why do you want to be a doctor? As long as you've addressed this issue honestly within yourself,then i think you can tell them whatever the hell you like as your reasons for being a doctor.

The whole admissions list of things they look for is not about them,its about the qualities you have,you can demonstrate qualities which you don't actually have,ie bein a team player,how many people know someone who plays on a team and are just not team players? The asmissions process is not a big list that you tick things off as you do them,but its a way of testing yourself for all the qualities needed to be a doctor.


Anywho waffle over!

[anup]

Because I want the challenge of diagnosing .I also enjoy the science of it and I'd love the opportunity to combine science with being with people and helping people.

I think you've answered your own question. Combine this perhaps with some sort of story and you should be on the way. I.e how you have personally been affected if you have, or just say what you have said above. Job done

[GDM]

I have to say my reasons for wanting to get into medicine have changed dramatically over the last two years.

Before March 03 I wanted nothing more than to be a psychiatrist because I wanted to know how the mind works why certain things cause certain things .

In March 03 right after my 17th birthday my grandfather had his first heart attack. He actually had the heart attack six days before he said anything to anyone and by the time he went into hospital 70% of the heart tissue was dead.

He had a stent put in and was sent home on fifteen different tablets which he was told he would be on for the rest of his days.

He had to be re-admitted twice after this and on the second time he was given a pacemaker.

He has since been back in hospital four times, had his medication changed four times, the most recent being two weeks ago.

He has been told that there is nothing more that can be done for him as too much of the heart was damaged from the original attack.

What really pisses me off is that he is only sixty-three having had the first attack when he was sixty-one. He never smoked, rarely drank and was extremely fit, refereeing at least two schoolboy football matches a week.
If someone like that can get to the point where he won't actually call an ambulance because he doesn't want to go to hospital anymore and is actually hoping that his next admission would be his last than I want to try everything I can to prevent other people and their familes from going through the same hell of waiting and wondering as my family and I are.

I don't think I would actually say all that in an interview because the thought of using that as some sort of excuse to use in an interview is a little disgusting to me but that is my reason for wanting to get into medicine.

[burto]

I used patients expectations as my 'why a doctor'. I said patients often present with an expectation of how ill they are, and the job of a doctor is to narrow that expectation. You as the medical practitioner understand how ill they are and your role is to narrow these expectations. Sounds weird but worked for me lol

[drnikki]

OK My 10 Reasons of becoming a Doctor:
1. Employment
2. Money
3. Recognition
4. Status
5. The name Doctor!!!!
6. Makes me similar to God...remember when we graduate we have licence to give and take away life!
7. Get a cute partner...LOL!
8. Helping pple of course!
9. Blood
10.I wanna die satisfied that i have achived something for myself!!!!!!

Bet these reasons is not only my mind but it is in your minds too uh!!! There you go Eponine! NEway nice meeting you and nice thread!
Nikki

[Vixter]

I agree with 1 and 8

The rest leaves me thinking.......Oh My God