I'm considering med school in a specialized but non surgical position. I'm still researching the feasibility, but I think there's a market for it.
There are a lot of medical career posts on WSO so I was wondering if anyone knew of someone who attempted a mid-career change to by starting med school as an 30yo geezer
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I’ve considered it, but hit some roadblocks with my prereqs. I received a B.S. in undergrad so took physics and chemistry, but never biology or biochem or organic chemistry.
The first thing I did was to look at medical schools that don’t require prereqs and set those schools as my targets. If you don’t have the prereqs, you have to do incredibly well in those subjects on the MCAT, so I thought I could just study review books and ace the MCAT and self teach. I also took a Kaplan MCAT review course. And I bought the Berkeley Review books. I thought I had enough books to study for and ace the MCAT, but unlike programs like the CFA books and tests, all the core knowledge was not in the books, so I had some holes in my plan to ace the MCAT. Also, the MCAT is a pretty challenging test in general. I finally decided that I needed to take some of these courses in person to prepare.
You can either take the course piecemeal at a university or there are programs like at Columbia which has the post-bac premed program. There are some great benefits to this program, mainly in the linkages:
https://gs.columbia.edu/content/linkage-specific-program-requirements
For some schools you don’t even have to take the MCAT with the linkages, but you have to have a good Columbia GPA and I have heard horror stories about people failing courses, especially from one teacher in second year Biology. But, if you can get through the Columbia post bac premed program with a high GPA, you’re virtually guaranteed acceptance to med school. Normal med school applicants face very difficult acceptance rates and some choose to do a DO instead of an MD if they can’t get into MD programs.
So I somewhat decided to do the post bac premed program at Columbia a few years ago if I could get by without paying for the program. I saw a position in finance at the school and it looked like I would get free tuition after a certain time at the school so interviewed for the position and didn’t get it. I was a bit disappointed, but still think about going to do the program later in life when I have a bunch of extra cash and time on my hands. Currently I’m locked down in the south helping with family so will not be free to go back to NYC for a bit.
I was mainly interested in psychiatry and having a nice little private practice that I could run when I’m older.
Thanks for believing in me man. I don't think anyone else believes in my ability to enroll or pay for tuition at Columbia.
How old where you when you started? I'd like to have a private practice too. It'd be nice to work for myself and help people n my job. I'm thinking something in a nuerological or orthopedic specialty. Psychiatry is also something that occurred to me as we're still learning a lot about the brain and we still don't even know the mechanisms by which some chemicals work. It'd be pretty interesting to take a holistic approach while working with a therapist. It would be nice to be able to understand nootropic medicines labeled as "research chemicals" and fight for peoples access to them in the US.
Would be nice... I need to think about this seriously. I'm bad at making risky life decisions and always er on the side of caution because I'm a weenie and realistically there's the $$$ problem. But, if I succeed the $$$ problem will only be temporary.
I'm really curious about the future of the country, the USA in this case, and how the path it takes could impact my own path.
Doctor or consulting.
This is the go to site for med school applicants:
https://forums.studentdoctor.net/forums/
Yes. I know of a few, you can PM me OP if you like more details. Seen a couple that left finance altogether to enter the field in 2008-2011ish via postbacc classes for pre-med and were entering med school around that time (the finance job market was brutal in 2008-2010 so I think that played a role in their decisions). Both now make at least $200+K as attendings I'd imagine. Also 30 y/o entering med school actually isn't that "old." My friend saw someone who was 33-34 and he ended up getting ortho residency and started it at ~37/38. Never too late!
It also depends on the field. Surgeons can’t practice as long as psychiatrists.
In medicine, most would argue choosing the field you're passionate about > following the chill WLB specialties. Some people like surgery.
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