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Want to do Medicine...

  • 18-02-2008 1:21pm
    #1
    starz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    I am currently in the final year of my undergraduate degree at the moment, with the hopes of going on to do post graduate medicine in the UK. I am 21. My degree average has so far been 2.1, which is the overall result i hope to get.

    Anyway, i am starting to wonder if i would be academically capable of studying to become a doctor. Throughout school i was just an average student (you could call me lazy either). I managed to get 365 points in my LC without studying too hard, i did most of my study in the last few months of 6th year. Im not an extremely intelligent person. For my degree i have found that i have to try hard to do well academically sometimes; unlike a lot of other people, where it might come naturally to them and they just breeze through. But, I do consider myself to be quite intelligent.

    From what i have said, do you think i would be capable of undertaking a medicine degree? Or would you have to be an extremely intelligent, driven person to do so?


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  • #2
    Chunky Monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Chunky Monkey


    Okay first off I'll just let ya know I'm not a med student (yet).

    But, from what I've heard, you do need to be driven but not necessarily a genius (well I'd be screwed otherwise).

    There's a load of medical books in Hodges and Figges on Dawson street. Why not take a look at some of them...they have couches too :) It's no good just looking at doctors working and thinking 'wow I want to be like that'. The lab coat and stethoscope do look pretty nifty but obviously there's a lot more to it and having an interest in the material you're going to be studying is probably quite important. If you like what you're studying, you will probably find yourself understanding it and retaining the information well.

    Anyway good luck :)


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