Medicine is an extremely rewarding career to get involved in both financially and emotionally. If you are prepared to tread the long arduous path to graduating and qualifying as a doctor then you will be amply rewarded for your commitment with a prestigious career that will enable you to travel the world and mix with the elite of society. However, whilst the rewards of medicine are great, so too are the perils and obstacles to success and it is little wonder then that there is a significant dropout rate for medical students, as many students struggle to keep up academically.
The stress does not end with medical school, in fact, that it is a walk in the park compared to the stresses and demands you will no doubt encounter during the course of your medical career. Contending with people who are in considerable amount of pain, making life changing decisions, dealing with life and death on a daily basis...medicine is a very tough career to break into, and even tougher to survive.
If you are in high school and are planning on becoming a doctor then you need to make sure that you take relevant subjects, specifically, science based subjects such as chemistry, biology and physics. You will need to score high grades in these subjects just in order to be considered for a placement at university, and given how fierce competition is for university places, you will really need to pull out all the stops in order to succeed.
In order to stand out from the rest of the several thousand applicants who will have applied for a coveted place at university, you may want to ensure that you have some clinical experience, and there are a number of ways you can go about achieving this. There are several summer medical programs that are designed to provide aspiring medical students with that first essential foot in the door and to provide them with the foundation knowledge and experience that will help them in the rest of their career. Volunteering as a healthcare assistant is another excellent way to curry favour with the admission team for universities.
A fallacy that wannabe medical students make is that they assume that their exam results are the be all and end all, and that if they achieve a high enough score they can simply walk their way into a college place and a career. The reality is very different and whilst you may perceive your admissions interview as little more than a tedious formality, it is in actual fact a very important stage indeed where you will be closely scrutinised and every aspect of your personality analysed and weighed.
The admissions team will be trying to gauge whether each of the candidates for a spot in their campus actually possess the self-discipline and control necessary to keep up with the rigours of a medical degree as well as the career itself. Answer their questions carefully, pay attention and keep focused throughout.
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