I want to study medicine for the same reason everyone else does. Chicks, money, power and chicks.
Ha it might sound cool now mate, but I seriously advise you to think hard about what you want to do if you're basing your career solely on that (debtable how true it is anyway)
Believe it or not, it's pretty true.
Why are you doing mbbs at monash then?
Don't have the money to move interstate
- Friends in 3rd, 4th year med etc. told me they constantly have to cancel on commitments, birthdays, etc. to the point where friends outside of med just began to stop inviting them to things. That's just an example. Maybe if you're super commited you could maintain a decent social life, but then you would probably have no time to just unwind by yourself.
- Well, simply how you view it i guess; way more contact hours than other courses
- It's not that stressful? I've heard otherwise, but I guess I'm not doing the course so I'm not in a position to comment
- Doesn't matter what specialty you do, during intern years you'll be exposed to some pretty horrific things
- Yes anyone can get sued, but you are much more liable when you are directly dealing with people's lives
- I reckon if you schedule things well, you can always fit things in, be efficient
- It's not that much more contact hours - do you want to look at my timetable? The kids down at the Engineering faculty have more contact hours than I do.
- It's not that stressful - I kid you not - stress is a mental concept, it's the way you perceive things - I deal with stress really well, so I can't comment much either
- Yes, but I know a lot of doctors and they're not scarred for life
- According to my Clinical Skills tutor from last semester, the whole suing thing is blown up more than it actually is for the purpose of education. You'd be pretty unlucky to actually get sued.
Also let's not kid ourselves, until you are specialised as a GP, etc. money earned is less than satisfactory
You'll be earning around $50,000 as an intern, 60-70,000 as a resident and around $90,000 as a registrar, apparently you can go past the $100,000 mark too, but I'm not too sure.
Btw, also, let's not kid ourselves, who much do you intend to make in your first few years out of university? It's not like you'll be making anything more than an intern, resident, registrar would, so I don't see your point.
I'm not looking for an argument. I believe that if prospective med students read everything here, they can consider the disadvantages and advantages at their own merit, and if after reading everything they still want to do med then congragulations to them; it is the right profession for them. I'm doing them a favour by ensuring that they know they are getting into medicine for the right reasons, not because they have been brainwashed into believing that they must do it because it is the mot prestigious course.
Look I don't usually stick up for medicine as a whole, because, like you, I know how many people do it for the wrong reasons, but to be honest, if you're advocating against med, please do find me some statistics, like seriously - you haven't really brought up anything which sound legitimate - like Surgeon said, it just sounds like you are here to start arguments.