Undergraduate Medicine to IBD
Hi guys, thanks for the help and advice in advance. I'm a 23 year old medical student from the UK, currently in my 6th and final year of university and expected to graduate with a first class honours. Over the past eighteen months or so I've become progressively disillusioned with a medical career, when applying to university I was torn between economics and medicine and chose the later. As I spent more and more time on clinical attachments I have not found any aspect of a medical career I can see myself in longer term. As time has gone on I've realised from reading about finance and talking to friends working in finance in London that this is where I want to be. I will have completed my medical internship by July 2022, and at the end of it I will be 25. I have no prior financial experience (Went to medical school with very little access to clubs or societies outside the medical sphere). My questions are these;
1) Would it be worth applying to off cycle IBD posts for August/September 2022? Would I have a reasonable shot at getting accepted? I know I come from a strange background, without any experience but have found multiple Drs employed in several BBs with similar resumes (mostly in healthcare coverage groups).
2) Would I be better off applying for a Masters in Finance and trying to use that as a stepping stone into an analyst IBD role? I know I would be 26 at the end of the masters so would be on the older spectrum of analysts but would have zero issue with 100 hour weeks or having my boss be younger than me.
(Before people ask, I would much prefer to get in at an analyst level rather than a post MBA associate and that's why I have not mentioned this in the post above.)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Without finance experience, no. We're in early January, you should be working right now on applying to an MSc in Finance (LSE/Imperial/LBS/Warwick). Say in your cover letter that you want to work in healthcare IBD.
Absolutely.
Would being an analyst at 26 be a serious disadvantage? I've read on here that banks care more about your years of work experience rather than age but I do understand most analysts will be 21/22
That's definitely not a problem, especially in Europe where people tend to do longer studies than in the US
A lot of Italian / French SAs at my bank had that age, is something normal in continental europe
I'm an OC intern at a US BB and have 25 years, I haven't encountered any issues and seems to be the norm for people who did a BSc and MSc to be 24-ish, so 26 shouldn't be an issue
If you’re in your final year, why do you have to wait till you’re 25?
I signed an agreement, I owe a year of work post graduation.
How do you even know you want to do IB? I would be questioning that about someone with your background
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