Yes sure

Yessir your hella right

Exactly😂

More like you choose one and they don't choose you back

If you go into anything in life with this mentality you’re setting yourself up for failure.

*laughs in high school*

Ay S. HAHA same..😭

@@lowkanastasia400 hey one day tho 🙏🏼🤞🏼👊🏼

Seriously, think about it now. I didn't think I'd get accepted at all (5th application cycle), got accepted to my 2 top schools & really didn't know which one to choose. It was a stressful decision, even though it's a good problem to have haha!

@@melissa2500 congrats future doc/doc (dont know if you’re graduated lol)!

Try two in New Zealand 🤣

@@Nicole-ug1ri oh my 😭😂

Lol I applied to 35

@@thesneakygamer4343 canada only has 17 😭

@@xnn12ty I have to admit I don’t envy you in that regard haha

amen! looking forward to hearing you getting accepted :)

Update?

Nah

Might be best in your case to look for med schools with the same theme, i.e. rural underserved areas, poor urban populations, etc. Then tailor your app to focus on that mission. Sure you can always apply to schools that don't fit the mission, but you'll have better chances at getting into the ones that seem like a fitted glove to your tailored app.

Medicare reimbursement is low AF compared to insurance company reimbursement. Doc pay would go down big time as a result of MFA. Patients would have long wait times to see their doctor, and even longer wait times to see a specialist (see any country, like the UK, that has free healthcare and they will confirm this) and lawyers will decide if you deserve life saving treatment, because you won't be paying for it, the public will. I.e. old people who need a liver transplant? Nah, too expensive a procedure for such an old person, a waste of money, let them die. Now sure, if you're wealthy in the UK, you can purchase private healthcare and get USA quality treatment, but because of MFA, taxes there are very high and becoming wealthy is that much harder, as a lot of your income is being taken away as taxes to the gov't. Having said all of that, I imagine USA will eventually get MFA because the people love 'free stuff' and the politicians love being elected, 'free stuff' is a win-win for both parties to achieve their goals. If you're going to medical school anytime soon, I would heavily consider the high cost of attendance (i.e. loan debt upwards of $400,000 for 4 years med school + interest from 3+ year residency) that will likely be impossible to pay off if MFA passes and docs get salaries slashed to $90,000-100,000 due to gov't taking over the healthcare system. In countries like the UK, this is possible because school is basically free, but for the few 100,000 medical students who get caught between the transition to MFA that owe $400,000 in loans but don't get paid like docs did before MFA, they will probably be stuck paying 10% of their income for 20 years to get the federal loan forgiveness option, which will be one hell of a bummer if you ask me, because that's like having an extra mortgage payment for half your adult life that could have been spent on vacations, starting a family, owning a nice home, etc. Not really worth the sacrifices you undertook in undergrad, med school, residency and as an attending to end up living your life that way... Although med school will likely become far less competitive as all the people wanting to do it for the money will go seeking more lucrative professions that take less of a sacrifice at that point. - Dr. J.

@@alphaspartan Ill refute your entire paragraph with a couple examples: Sweden, Canada

Hmmm and people in those countries pay higher taxes and get worse service, sometimes waiting months for medical services unless they buy health insurance to use a nice private hospital. 😅 Have you talked to someone from Canada/Switzerland, or are you just repeating the Tiktok video you saw from some politician trying to get votes? Because I've heard from people who know what they're talking about and they hated public healthcare. Have you never seen the nasty teeth of people from the UK? Turns out dental care isn't covered by free health insurance either lol 😆 I'm sure the struggling middle class families would be happy to give up even more of their paycheck to pay for the poor to have free health insurance. Actually though, real world example, look at California with it's high taxes and social welfare programs. Then look at Florida with it's low taxes and lack of free stuff. Very similar climates. Which state is growing in population and which is losing population?

where can I learn more about this @@alphaspartan

Agreed! As a MS4 currently interviewing, I would love to hear Medschoolinsiders's advice on how to choose a residency.

That's a great recommendation!

I second this!

Yes please!!!

He is from California

You can google that info easily. CA is very OOS friendly, as it's the #1 most desirable place to live in the entire country and the brightest minds from sea to shining sea are hoping to go to any UC campus.

Congrats!!!

@@samross5256 Thanks love

Congrats!

OMG SAME

Wanna be study buddy? Idk if I sound weird

He ain't got time fo' dat. Check out a DO's KZfaq channel, like Dr. Mike. He is a board certified family med doc.

Depends on the situation, being in the area can be a boost for getting an interview for that location, but there are many other factors to consider

Such as well

Yeah, adding to prev comments, I know plenty of residents that come from all over the place (Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Washington, Cali, etc). Location doesn’t play as large of a factor as school prestige, publications, LoRs, and academics. I would say Step1 score is powerful, but it’s going to become pass/fail, which just emphasizes the importance of the previous factors more.

No

He just posted one today :)

Let your heart guide you.

Be an anesthesiologist with a KZfaq channel that sedates/kidnaps psychiatrists to your real estate properties. You’d only release the psychiatrists when your vids get enough likes. The money you’d make would go into investing in other properties around the country. Subs can visit and talk to psychiatrists. Would make for great content.

Look at websites

What specialty are you interested in? If you’re interested in more competitive fields such as derm, surgery, etc., you should really be leaning more towards MD. If you truly want to go into primary care, then you have to really think about it. Personally, I’d err on the side of safety by going MD, as most people change their intended specialty. You don’t want to all of a sudden want to go into neurosurgery and then have to fight an uphill battle because of the DO degree

@@rayanrahmani9838 yea I see what you mean. Thank you for the advice. I honestly don't know what I want to specialize in as of now. I'm thinking pediatric but I genuinely don't know.

I’d do MD if you get accepted. MD-DO Residency merger will be in effect, meaning that MDs will now be able to fill in some of the 1200 slots that were originally reserved just for DOs. While DO application will be more streamlined, it’s going to be more competitive- and if you still aren’t sure what specialty you want than MD will put you in a better position. Your values/beliefs don’t have to change with the type of school either. You do you playa

@@aqualife88 honestly I recommend MD especially if you aren’t 100% about specialty. I also considered DO because I thought I wanted to do Family Med. I am now in an MD program and planning on going into a more competitive specialty now. Our interests change over time

@@thesneakygamer4343 thanks a lot!

He already did ophthalmologist, in case you didn’t know. I know it’s different, but if he was going to do a non-medical field, he’d probably do something that more are interested in, such as dentistry, as opposed to something as niche as optometry

I guess your medical school is outside the US, happens after high school, and lasts 6 years? And there were exams? America does a 4 year college/4 year medical school system

I might be mistaken, so someone can correct me if I am, but I think he mentioned it was UCLA

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i have some Scholarship videos on my channel!

Okay but the $200k in debt you save is nice

US! the uk follows a different path when wanting to become a doctor :)

You got this Shivani!

It is similar to Brazil, but we have to take a test and if we get a really good score, we are in. We can only apply to 2 though

this year, and for the first time we had a national test which was the format of multichoice questions, the acceptance rates were less than 10 percent

Don’t stress too much. Just focus in the moment. If you are in 8th grade and want to choose medicine as your future career, you should start now. Do well in your class, get good sat/act score, attend a good college, get good gpa in college, ace the mcat, and do well on the interview.

Nice - yeah so the short answer is: after high school you got undergrad for 4 years, med school for 4 years, then residency for 3-7yrs (depends on specialty), then a fellowship (1-2yrs). At the end of it you’d be a doctor flying solo. There will be a ton of standardized exams, and having a strict schedule is important during med school. It’s important to find healthy ways to relieve stress because it’s a long road. Longer answer is this: Think of all the schooling like generally the same thing, but the material you learn slowly gets more and more specific. In high school everyone generally takes the same classes and you figure out what you like/excel at. You take a standardized exam SAT/ACT and go to college. You can study anything you want in college (math/history/biochem/art, whatever u like) but you need to do certain basic science classes required by medical school (some chemistry, biology, physics, and a psych class). Towards the end of undergrad you take a standardized exam called the MCAT, and then put together an application for med school. Once in medical school everyone will generally take the same core classes the first couple years, and then you get to do clinical rotations with different specialties to figure out what you like. During med school you also take a few standardized exams called USMLE (there’s 3 different exams, each called a “step”, each tests a different thing, they are spread across med school). Towards the end of med school you pick a specialty you’d like to pursue, put together an application, and interview with different residency programs. You put down your favorite programs ranked, and if the program also liked you, then you “MATCH” into the program. In residency, you are a doctor, but are basically learning the ropes of what it means to work as a physician in the real world. You work a lot of hours and learn a lot of things hands on from doctors that are very experienced, basically you live at the hospital (that’s why they are called a resident). You can then do a fellowship after that with something even more specific (if you did neurosurgery residency, maybe your fellowship is skull base surgery or spine). After that you’d be on your own, you pick up a job as a doc at some hospital (you’d be what is called an attending) and have a bit more of a routine. But the exam fun never stops, and every ~10years you need to take your “boards”, essentially a test made by some docs in your specialty to make sure that you are still a competent physician.

Nope unless maybe you planning to study in China or something which is actually pretty good too

@@iaintgotnobraincellsihihi268 so when can I go to medical sch, If I'm planning to study medicine what I'm suppose to do after highsch

@@blossom1294 Based on my research you can check when to start with the uni website. For your next question if you're planning to study in lets say Canada you first need to go to college and major in whatever field you're passionate about but also complete the required prequisite the med school needs then I think in your year you need to sit for your MCAT and start applying . However other unis don't require MCAT, like I think Mcmaster. In the US it's almost the same thing but all unis require MCAT. I hope this helps.

@@blossom1294 In China (and I think most Asian countries) you start applying right after highschool. I'm not sure tho

Short answer: No. if you are really smart you can try to get into a linkage/guaranteed acceptance. I believe there are some 6 or 7yr combined programs with DO schools that mush undergrad with med, but those competitive. Outside the US they do things differently, but I’m assuming u in US if you mention high school