/med/ - Medicine General

Romania.

Well a couple of things to mention. A lot of people *want* to be a doctor but have very little concept of the sacrifice and work inherent to even just getting an MD, let alone residency and then practicing medicine. In america it will be literal hell if you dont have a wealthy family to support you. So i reccomend you go to a local practice or hospital and sit down with a doctor and ask him about his journey, what his usual day is like, and all that before you consider further. Most docs will gladly do this, and when I did this the guy bought me lunch and sat down with me for like 2 hours. That was what really got me locked into the path for good. I could give more info but to be honest, im just browsing to waste some time, and there is waaaay better places on the internet than Veeky Forums to find information you need. Check out student doctor network. And also avoid any blogs ran by someone trying to sell you an e-book on how to get into med school

Are you a native?
Also are there many foreigners?

Do the loci method of learning and a memory palace. Memory palace might be your best bet as diseases transfer well to visualization a lot and the names can be changed into something funny/weird sounding enough to be memorable.

People are too discouraging, everyone who's wanted to become a doctor most often times knows it's a sacrificial journey.

I doubt anyone that's serious doesn't know it's gonna be hard. Most doctors I've spoken to complain about pay and say their friends make more money in finance.

God-tier: Neuroscience, Biological Engineering

Who can teach me how to crack hash strings?

A big problem is also that people are misguided aboout what the whole picture of the sacrifice is. Sure, you're pretty much giving up on social life on college, you're going to take a huge debt amd giving up the pretense of a healthy life. Everyone enters med school knowing that. What most people don't talk about is that dealing with people when they're at their weakest fucks you up. You need skills to deal with that shit, need charisma to make them put their trust in you, and above all, you need to convince yourself that what you're doing is a worhwhile effort, and that means ignoring the retards who, despite your best efforts find a way to kill themselves or their families, then start screaming at you.
I wasn't able to handle that shit. In my country, people avoid the shit that forces you to handle dying patients like the plague.

first year student here, from a third world school

this semester so far
>Really enjoyed studying head anatomy
>Still did average on both theoric and practical tests
>now it's time for neck (not really hard) and fucking upper limb
>i absolutely hated general histology, but did pretty well.
>systems' histology has been easy as shit so far, i hope i get a good mark.
>embriology sucks
>public health is fun
>cell biology is depressing because it's hard and pretty much the only course where i have a chance of failing, not because i'm not doing good (i'm doing better than the average), but because if you fail the final exam, which is really hard, you fail the course
>i got the best mark in the first physics partial exam

I think next year will be worse

Well no one can understand that feeling until they experience it.

I get where you're coming from though.

In my country it's pretty chill. Even the criminals and mentally ill have some manners.

t. UK