PE internship and future

dukedevils27

Senior Monkey

13y

hey sorry, yea plans just changed and solidifed and i intended to be more specific...sorry for creating a new thread; my ugrad major was biology (non-finance) so im guessing im further screwed...how is the nature the work in PE btw...hopefully cannot be as bad as studying :)

cphbravo96

Human

13y

Best Response

Seems like a lot of extra work for little-to-no benefit. Granted med school probably isn't something you should turn down since that looks as if it was your intended path to begin with and it's free, but med school is cut throat. Like "make other people fail so you look better" cut throat...though you may know this.

I highly doubt the PE firm will be waiting around 8 years for you to come back. I also don't know how you know you are going to do healthcare PE or that you will even be hired by a PE firm given your total lack of skills when it comes to the work you would likely be performing. People with 3 years of IB experience coming out of HBS and Wharton have a difficult time getting PE positions, so you can imagine someone with no IB experience coming out of a 1 year bschool program is at a total disadvantage. Not to mention that you will actually be trying to get recruited out of med school, not bschool.

Don't get me wrong, it's totally possible, but it's a very specific path very early in your student career so many things can/will change. Mentally you need to focus on medicine and work your way through med school. I've had many friends go through med school and they all say its brutal, so if you're focused on getting a PE job and you begin to see the relevance (if there is one to begin with) between the two fade your performance might suffer.

I guess medicine is a better fall back career than most but remember that most doctors tolerate the shitty hours (late nights at the hospital and/or on call during holidays, birthday dinners, weddings, etc...or private practice where you can have to same issues...and in some cases you do both) and shitty conditions (around sick people who are in pain, bad moods, angry, etc.) because they want to help people get better, cure ailments/diseases, etc...so if you don't want to "heal" people and don't find value in that, it might not be the best fall back career.

At any rate, best of luck. Hopefully some other members will have some feedback for you.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

dukedevils27

Senior Monkey

13y

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