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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just chiming in to say it’s bizarre and sad that kids have to jump through so many crazy hoops to get into med school these days. Of course, we want smart qualified doctors but many smart kids are being rejected while on the other side, we have a serious shortage in every field and that shortage grows every year.

Premed/med school was not that difficult for me nor for many of my friends. We had so much fun in med school and residency. I hope the kids are still having fun nowadays [/quote]

I am a physician (started med school 30 years ago) and I would never suggest that someone not having “fun” in med school, residency or fellowship or not finding it easy is doing it wrong. It’s interesting, rewarding, and intellectually satisfying, but can be horribly stressful and exhausting.

Also the stress doesn’t end, so if someone  doesn’t like stress it’s probably best to get weeded out by the admissions process. I’ve been an attending for 20 years and just got home from work at 10 PM because I'm the division chief, it’s been busy and we are short-staffed. Someone has to do it, so I’m still pulling 60+ hour weeks when I’m over 50 yo. I’m lying in bed now but am too hyped up to get to sleep - and I have to be back at the hospital by 7 AM.

I participate in residency admissions - not med school - but 100% agree to get the MCAT up. One of the techs in my lab applied twice and was rejected. He was a good kid, but lousy MCAT. I told him to do a course - he used Kaplan, but this was maybe 10 yrs ago (in fact, he just started his first job as a surgeon this year!).

I put him on a strict schedule of studying - made him show me his notes and sample questions he had worked on the night before every morning  (and I REALLY yelled at him the first time I caught him slacking off).

He did much better on his MCAT and got in 2 places (went to U Maryland). Very satisfying outcome and I was so happy for him - but then it really sucked for me because I lost a great tech.[/quote]

You are not a success story.[/quote]

Dp, but that is a totally inappropriate and strange comment.[/quote]

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