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How bad is medical school?

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Estelle’s Answer

As everyone has confirmed, medical school is extremely stressful and challenging. I reminded my son frequently that he would not have been admitted if the medical school did not think he was capable. Doing well in medical school requires dedication and focus. Your education has to be your number one priority along with staying healthy with diet and exercise. Students have to be persistent and see the end goal.
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Richard’s Answer

Time management is key. Between lecture, lab and studying, the first 2 years will be grueling. Make sure to leave time for yourself to exercise, eat right and even some socializing.

There will be times during 3rd and 4th year when you will be frustrated by your continued lack of skills and knowledge but just remember that there will be plenty of time to master your specialty during residency.
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Rachel’s Answer

Medical school can be extremely stressful. You will study almost every hour of every day.

In order to avoid becoming totally overwhelmed or depressed, do the things that allow you to maintain a healthy perspective on life. If you like to run, try to jog regularly to stay healthy. Volunteering can often help to get students out of their study bubble and show them that others have much greater problems than the score on their next test. Many people are heavily involved in church groups and community outreach.
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Aaron A.’s Answer

Medical school is challenging. It takes a lot of discipline to study when others around you are partying or having a good time or already have jobs and are making money. But honestly, the hardest thing about medical school is getting in! Once you’re in, you and your classmates are like a Army platoon. You work hard, you lose sleep, you have failure and victories, but you stick together and make it through and leave no one behind. It’s adrually pretty cool thing. Good luck medicine school hard tough
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Pramuditha’s Answer

Medical school is relatively more challenging due to the amount of studying you have to do to get good grades and the amount of dedication required. But the perception depends on how willing you are to commit yourself to achieve the ultimate goal. If you are truly passionate about becoming a doctor, you will feel more motivated and satisfied by working harder whereas someone who is less interested may become burnt out sooner. Definitely there will be days you are exhausted and question yourself whether you entered the right path. And there will be days when you help patients and feel how lucky to enter this profession. However, at the end if you truly wanted it, the hard work is all worth it. When you become a doctor and feel that sense of achievement you will one day look back and be happy about your journey that was full of ups and downs.

Disclaimer : This is from my personal experience three years back in a competitive school. It may differ from how different people look at challenges in life.

Pramuditha recommends the following next steps:

If you would like to get the real feel about the difficulty and challenges, try to shadow a doctor in a hospital for few days . Shadowing a doctor you already know would be easy. (family physician etc. )
Carefully ask yourself what you truly want and whether you'd give up your free time to work hard towards the goal before deciding on your career.
And also remember, if so many people have got through, you can too.
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