how many of you think you could become doctors?

[TheBoyBoyJesse]

I'm planning on becoming a doctor. I realize this now but my high school GPA is pretty low. Does the college I go to change anything? Please respond guys would appreciate some input

[low blow]

LMAO. the only GPs that make 100k a year are the ones living in Toorak. Most GPs in the outer suburbs (malvern etc) use bulk billing and therefore don't make anything like that. seriouly, if you don't want to make a lot of money, but want to be a 9-5 doctor, become a GP.

specialization is where its at. Any specialist will charge you $150 for first consultation and $80 or so afterwards (consultations being about 10-15 minutes in length). you can claim around half of that back from MediCare/private insurance. And most specialists also do basic surgeries/procedures (endoscopies etc) twice a week, charging around $400 for a 20 minute procedure.

Mostly right about the other stuff but you're way underestimating how much a GP can make - read here http://www.racgp.org.au/download/Doc...feesummary.pdf

The average GP consultation bulk billed is between 6-20 minutes and pays the GP $36.30 per consult - assume it's 4 patients per hour (and that's being quite low considering many GP's will be booked out with family visits/couples etc..) and other ways of increasing income (such as medication reviews, chronic disease management plans, minor procedure) you could say the average GP is grossing at LEAST $140/hr. To be honest if a practice is solely bulk billing and has a good patient roster one could even assume that the average patients per hour is 6 + extras added in could mean the GP is grossing $200hr+.

However that is grossing, most GP's will pay 25-35% of the gross to the practice...but still walk away with $150/hr. Similarly some places just don't bulk bill for the consult and will add a $20-40 co-payment on top meaning the GP would be getting about $75 per patient. At 4 patients per hour that is $300/hr (though I doubt many of these clinics are booked out that much).

Just my 2 cents

[cocoalotion]

I dropped out of a (pretty good) pre-med program after one semester. I made the Dean's List too. #noBrag

The time commitment is completely insane. For every hour I was in class, it was about four hours outside of class. What that semester taught me was that I didn't have what it takes. You really have to live, breath, and dream human biology to make it. #srs

[Beeekay]

I'm the love doctor. I'll met in your mouth girl not in your hands.


"Tho theductive"

[T-Roach]

What kinda of doctor...

MD
DDS
Ph.d
JD

All of those degrees are doctors

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Funny thing is 95% of the misc are laymen and don't know the differences.

[cocoalotion]

I'm planning on becoming a doctor. I realize this now but my high school GPA is pretty low. Does the college I go to change anything? Please respond guys would appreciate some input

Kinda. You'll want to at least go to a middle of the road State school and completely slay there. Slay like your life depends on it. No farking around. If you can graduate with a 3.5 or higher, good medical schools will take you seriously.

However ...

At the end of the day, you'll learn this when you graduate from college and get your foot in the door working somewhere, about two years after graduating NO ONE GIVES A CHIT WHERE YOU WENT TO COLLEGE!

Think about it, do you ask your doctor where they went to college / med school?

[brbacquiring]

you think you have what it takes to become a medical doctor? all that school, studying, sacrifices, etc, etc..? obviously it would pay off once you become a doctor, but could you make it through?? seriously

OP hasn't met many med students, lol. They're useless pricks like every other student.

You need a certain character to want to do a doctor's work, but the degree it self isn't "hard" or necessarily challenging if you like that sort of thing, nomsayin? They're just regular ****wits who get pissed five nights per week and never go to lectures.

[PowerTrip21]

discipline of peace !

[takataki]

in most countries getting into a med program requires a certain score on an IQ test. This differentiates it from most other programs like engineering and physics.

[Gay4Whey]

Why so salty on doctors man? It's a very respectable career. My friend (a pharmacist) says the same about pharmacists, that he knows some absolutely "dumb" ones, but that hardly reflects on the whole career. I get that you're being intentionally condescending but it seems like a petty argument. And as far as the MCAT difficulty, it's a standardized test, meaning the "hardness" is based on how much you know compared to everyone else. How "hard" the questions are is irrelevant, it's a way of ranking students. Your PCAT score percentile would be a 36 on the MCAT. It's a strong score, almost 2 standard deviations above the mean. But roughly 75,000 people take the MCAT per year compared to about 15,000 taking the PCAT, and I'd imagine a much higher percentage of PCAT takers take the MCATs opposed to the percentage of MCAT takers taking the PCAT, so it's a tougher crowd. Not to mention there is a math section on the PCAT which doesn't exist on the MCAT, just like there's no physics portion of the MCAT. I just do t get how you can posit that the PCAT is "harder" than the MCAT considering they're both scale tests but the pool of MCAT applicants is more formidable. Maybe it's comparable though I'll give you that. Just not a well-thought out comment on your part.

Absolutely not.

is the mcat too hard for you brah?

cause you hurt my feels with your hate on DDS and RPH.

btw, the DAT is a standardized test as well, and a 22 academic average translates to 99th percentile the year I took it.

also, about 15000 people apply for pharm school via pharmcas a year, not how many people take the pcat. For example, in canada, we need to take the pcat but we don't send info to pharmcas. also, a lot of people take the pcat, but don't apply due to chitty score.

and i scored in 97th+ percentile on 2 standardized tests.

i don't hate on doctors, there are good ones, and there are bad ones.

[Ronnie87]

I'm intelligent enough to understand the material, but I'm pretty lazy when it comes to things like doing course work and revising. My Girlfriend for instance got much better exam results than me because she can spend hours reading and memorizing material, she's a very organised person, yet I'm much better at maths, English and science than her in the real world.

[Domxmb]

Chose not to, no thanks lol

[Chesso95]

nope, i'm not mature enough to become a doctor. (can't find a way to take school seriously etc..)

[tikeshe]

Depends. I don't have any interest in helping people though. Would only work privately.

Rather do an MSc in Petroleum Geology, and a PhD in reservoir fluids.

[Trogsson]

Currently in med school and this **** sucks. Med school isn't hard - any type of engineering is probably "harder", it's just that there is so much you have to learn. All day just memorizing stuff. Fml.