How do you know if you're really pre-med?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Title says it all. All do you know that you're destined for a medical career? In my case, when I see something somewhat gross (like blood coming out everywhere, dead flesh from a snakebite, severe skin conditions), I get a little big squirmished. </p>

<p>In medical school, how long and how much exposure do you have with some of the branches such as Emergency Medicine(from watching a few shows, they seem to get the nastiest looking cases, along with surgery)? </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>I'm deciding between medicine or engineering.</p>

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<p>Personally, I hate when people over the years have tried to cut down my credibility of wanting to become a doctor over silly petty things. I was telling my friend the other day that in both middle school and high school I wasn’t able to sew this pillow together in this life skills class I had and she said to me “How will you be a doctor if you’re bad at sewing??” Or when I used to be deathly afraid of needles, people questioned if I could handle it. Now I’m a lot better with them, but even if I wasn’t, I’m sure it would all fall into place eventually.</p>

<p>I’m not in med school yet, but I can guarantee that if you have a good application, that you will most likely get you into one. And once you’re in, you can work on your bedside manner, squeamishness, and everything else that is considered to be good quality of a doctor. Another story that might make you feel better: my Freshman year, these three guys (I think they were third years) from the affiliated med school came to talk to the premed club on campus. One of them asserted that he was extremely squeamish and kept fainting when working with cadavers. But he assured everyone he was fine in his third year. So don’t worry too much about stuff like that ;)</p>

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<p>that helps.lol.thanks.</p>

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<p>Jajaja, fainting on a cadaver must be some scary $@*t! Oh wells.</p>

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<p>just on a side not. When putting together your medical school applications, can one put that they are a top level of a video, but still maintain a good stats(3.6+ gpa, 33+MCAT,lots of clinical experience,etc). </p>

<p>Would mentioning that being a high level gamer help or not help your application?</p>

<p>I’m actually not joking, really curious.</p>

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<p>bump…bump</p>

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<p>a high level gamer…starcraft? LMAO, that’s all I’m gonna say to that.</p>

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<p>no, a different game with levels, I’m just curious. I currently don’t play games and haven’t been for the past year and half.</p>

<p>Btw, I hate starcraft.</p>

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<p>Unless cardiac surgery evolves into necessitating the use of a PS3 dualshock 3 controller I think you’re out of luck.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty good at Operation. That definitely went on my AMCAS.</p>

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<p>really?^^^^^</p>

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<p>… I … this is… I don’t… … but… it’s the…</p>

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<p>It’s about time you guys showed up (norcalguy and bluedevilmike). I’ve been holding my breath waiting for your responses! :)</p>

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<p>Yes. Interviewers like it when you show rather than tell. So, when I told my interviewers about how I will be the next Ben Carson, they naturally demanded some proof of my manual dexterity. So, I pulled out my Operation scorecard which shows my 56-game winning streak. It was laminated so they knew I meant business.</p>

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<p>NCG: At which schools did you challenge the interviewer to an on-the-spot game of Operation? Did you tend to get into those? Was there any correlation between winning and admission?</p>

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<p>Oh, crap, what am I doing?! I’m wasting my time playing Phoenix Wright - I don’t want to be a lawyer! I should be playing Trauma Center… gotta get ready for my surgical rotation next year!</p>

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<p>"ust on a side not. When putting together your medical school applications, can one put that they are a top level of a video, but still maintain a good stats(3.6+ gpa, 33+MCAT,lots of clinical experience,etc).</p>

<p>Would mentioning that being a high level gamer help or not help your application?</p>

<p>I’m actually not joking, really curious. "</p>

<p>LMAO!!!</p>

<p>Yes, being a high level Good Cleric would definitely help you in medical school applications because it shows a very strong passion for “healing” people. This would be especially helpful if you want to go into something like emergency medicine, since you obviously would have so much experience “healing” the wounds of others in “emergency” situations. It would be even more helpful if you wanted to be an army doc…</p>

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<p>I was a combat medic with the 82nd for a while back in WWII in the pacific and European theaters (in Battlefield 1942), and then again during a stint in the middle east (Battlefield 2). I also have experience with future medicine and technology (tour of duty in Europe in Battlefield 2142), and I had a very high Medicine stat in Fallout 3 so that I could heal myself while fighting raiders and mutants.</p>

<p>Should I include this in my applications?</p>

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<p>WWII vets, dude… totally put that on your apps.</p>

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<p>Wow!!! GoldShadow, are you serious?!? That’s awesome!
I think you are definitely a shoe-in for any school in the nation with those kinds of battlefield experiences! With your Battlefield 2142 experience, you’re nearly 140 years into the future of medicine already!!! So how will medicine look in 140 years? Will we cure aging?! That is so awesome. I’m so excited for you! I can’t wait to hear how your WWII & WWIII+ experiences play into your med school apps!</p>