What’s wrong with having an expansive experience with a variety of medical fields? After all, medicine isn’t just one field…
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Drs specialize or generalize but then refer. I’m not a dr. Are you showing ability in many fields at 17?
Unless your name is Doogie Howser, then no one will believe you.
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You are in high school, NOT medical school. Frankly what you are doing is in no way relevant to med school. But if you insist on pushing back to those who know, well good luck
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But how will I know that medicine is for me if I don’t shadow?
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I’m not a dr so others can respond but I didn’t hear shadow. I heard full on medical professional with far more procedures than experienced doctors under your teen age belt.
I don’t want to speak for the others who know far more about this than me - but shadow is fine if the hrs are not overstated.
Again - 8 years of school - what’s your budget ?
And what’s your UGA weighted calculated gpa so we can see if your stats fit. Or you’ll find out soon enough anyway.
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I agree with this. And please answer the question about budget. It could easily cost you $100,000 a year for medical school by the time you get there.
Augusta is free and so are Georgia schools. For out of state, I have some scholarships so it should be fine.
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You are in HS with stats that are unlikely to get you into a guaranteed combined program. Focus on UG for now. Btw, med school is where you will decide what specialty you would like to go into. 3rd year you do clinical rotations that give you insight in different fields. My daughter decided on surgery because she said when she came home from clinicals she wanted to talk about her day. That is 7-8 years from you now.
So you are saying your parents or you can pay $400,000 for medical school? Please clarify. If you save money on undergrad, do they have money put aside they would then use for medical school?
Have you considered MCCullough Medical scholars at University of Alabama? Might be worth a look see.
Totally free? Or free tuition? There is a difference.
Free tuition because of hope scholarship/zel miller
Op has UAB but his stats would earn him $28k off $32k tuition at UA.
The school would be safe - whether entry into the program could be gained I don’t know. But it would give a like core of kids.
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Just, wow. The more I read, the more I start to wonder if the OP is for real. If you are real, it may be helpful to try to be more gracious and open to hearing the feedback you are getting. If you applied to UGA EA, my guess is they will want to see first semester grades.
As for the other stuff, if you really are a HS senior, the tone you take here will come across in your applications, and that isn’t a good thing. You simply do not have the knowledge or experience. For example, many kids (and you are a kid) change their minds. A good friend’s son was in the BS/MD program in Tampa, got involved in cancer research and decided that he’d rather go the research/academia route after undergrad. He just defended his dissertation at Stanford. He will now be deciding if, after his post doc, he wants to stay in academia or go work in big pharma. People change their minds.
You are fortunate to have knowledgeable people here. You would be wise to listen. And be more appreciative.
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Why waste time on this? The credentials probably are not real…
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Well in fairness to any OP, they have the right to say what they want and until told it’s fake, we should heed by the rules and be supportive of OP.
Until I get that email, I will.
In that post I was tagged and simply added a link. It may be good for this or any other OP who comes along.
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Because it is BS experience. And if you had all this experience in Kenya, you better not mention it at all. List only US experience with references ! No school wants a HS professor with experience. They want HS soldiers that will listen and follow orders.
Well then…you will still have room and board costs, books and discretionary spending. I do not know the room/board costs in GA.
Your ECs, medical procedures, first author etc is going to raise quite a few red flags. I would listen to what others are saying.
Curious to learn how you got so many shadowing hours in HS?
I am also curious to know how you got to be first author by your senior year of HS?
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Because you are NOT a physician and stating that you have done suturing while appearing to disregard ethics is a huge flag and a cavalier attitude towards ethics violations.
Can you really honestly state that you can abide by the Hippocratic Oath? “I will not use the knife, even upon those suffering from stones, but I will leave this to those who are trained in this craft.” You should know the “Do no harm” mantra.
When a patient’s pre-ops are completed, the physicians look for contraindications to risk in a surgery, and conduct a thorough written and verbal review of a patient’s medical history and familial risk of heart, brain and lung incidences. There is almost always a nurse or scribe present to record the patient’s answer’s.
Lab work is completed. Medications are reviewed.
This all takes significant training to detect and rule out questions to contraindication. You did NONE of that. That train is incorporated by working with hundreds of patients.
You cannot have possibly known every patient’s medical history. To assume that you didn’t need to, is willful arrogance and puts any of those patients at risk and you for lawsuits.
Our daughter went through thousands of hours of training experiences, at her hospitals and clinics through her internships and rotations. General surgery rotations required lots of observation.
Her med school required perfect GPA’s, test scores and significant long-term volunteer work experience with low SES patients over time.
You don’t appear to want to listen to the previous posters, so I will just conclude with one thought: Take out lots of medical malpractice insurance.
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