Are your pre-med kids reconsidering the field due to Covid?

[Anonymous]

Curious if COVID has had an impact on whether your kids are still considering the premed route. Do you think fewer students will consider med school?

[Anonymous]

I think many kids will reconsider it if the next 1-2 semesters of college are not in person. It will take a really dedicated kid to do labs online, etc. Also kids might have to put off med school because they won't be able to volunteer in clinical settings for a while. Just speculating

[Anonymous]

They are kids—they don’t think that far ahead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are kids—they don’t think that far ahead.

What would be the point in wanting to become a doctor if you did not want to deal with disease? Seems like it's pretty much part of the job. If they cannot fathom a pandemic flu-like virus, forget cancer or surgery. They definitely need to reconsider pre-med as a career path. It's not for pansies.

[Anonymous]

No mine is more excited. Applying this cycle.

[Anonymous]

What a silly question. As a PP said, why would they even consider medicine if a virus makes them reconsider?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are kids—they don’t think that far ahead.

What would be the point in wanting to become a doctor if you did not want to deal with disease? Seems like it's pretty much part of the job. If they cannot fathom a pandemic flu-like virus, forget cancer or surgery. They definitely need to reconsider pre-med as a career path. It's not for pansies.

Cancer and surgery aren't contagious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are kids—they don’t think that far ahead.

What would be the point in wanting to become a doctor if you did not want to deal with disease? Seems like it's pretty much part of the job. If they cannot fathom a pandemic flu-like virus, forget cancer or surgery. They definitely need to reconsider pre-med as a career path. It's not for pansies.

Cancer and surgery aren't contagious.

May not be contagious, but can certainly bring about a fatality. Like PP said, if this pandemic has your dc rattled, then medicine perhaps is not the field for your dc

[Anonymous]

My kid is worried about getting the experience she needs to be a qualified applicant when so many things are being limited or cancelled due to the pandemic. For example - working in labs on campus, doing volunteer work in clinics, etc. She had a fantastic research experience and job this summer that are both cancelled. She was already considering a gap year before all this but is leaning towards it more now just to makeup for lost time in terms of experience before entering school.

But no, I don't think this is making her reconsider actually entering the field at all. She has been following everything going on very closely and has a lot to say about it all.

[Anonymous]

I know a few college students who are CNAs or EMTs and working with a lot of COVID patients. I think they haven't processed everything they are seeing, but they all seem committed to continuing to work in healthcare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No mine is more excited. Applying this cycle.

+1. This is exactly the kind of thing she wants to do.

[Anonymous]

This pandemic has reaffirmed our rising senior's choice of pre-med and his rising sophomore sister is now considering pre-med for the same reason.

[Anonymous]

Most docs have no exposure to it. Their practices are dying because they can’t see patients.

The reason not to go into medicine is not covid, but the death of private practice caused by covid. After this it will be just big hospitals and the government, which will suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No mine is more excited. Applying this cycle.

+1. This is exactly the kind of thing she wants to do.

+2. I anticipate more interest in the field of medicine post-covid.

[Anonymous]

No, but the volunteer hours are almost non existent so I think the applications aren't going to have the usual credentials.