Medicine is
considered the most noble profession in the world. It is one of the most highly
respected professions. Medicine is also considered a calling and the majority
of doctors find their work highly rewarding and enjoyable.
Also, gaining admission
into medical school is not easy as it demands to have a very good result from
High School and a lot of hard work as well. Medicine is a science, therefore
you will need to have strong scientific ability. You must also possess the
capacity to learn and to retain large amounts of information. You will need
good analytical and reasoning skills. Medical practice requires lifelong
learning and the work can be challenging. Therefore you must be highly
motivated by a strong interest in medicine. On average, obtaining a medical
degree will take about 5 years of your life in the medical school (6 years in
most European and African countries, and about 4 years in the Caribbean). Upon
graduation, you will be awarded an MD or MBBS or MBChB, depending on the country
or the university you attended. And after graduation from the university, if
you choose to work as a doctor, you will be paid a very reasonable salary that
will be comfortable for you and your family. However, your salary will increase
as you become a specialist or more experienced.
WHY SHOULD I STUDY MEDICINE?
Here we bring
you some of the advantages why you should study medicine.
1. Plenty of opportunities upon graduating
This reason is rarely stressed properly, but it is a fact. After graduation
there is a broad range of opportunities for future job. In case you find none
of the possibilities appealing, you can combine them or invent your own path of
further specialization. Upon finishing medical college you can choose to work
in hospitals, science institutes, public health care or be part of the medical
segment of some other science. There are doctors who are managing health care
costs in economical sciences, or cooperate as a part of judicial sciences in
proving medical errors and patients' rights.
Be that as it may, do not worry in case you do not
see yourself as a future pediatrist or surgeon; you have six years to decide
what exactly you are interested in.
2. Working
with people
A lot of students name working with people as their
primary reason to study medicine. If you are a people person, medicine is the
right choice for you. It is of vital importance to stress that to work with
people you absolutely must have a great deal of tolerance towards endangered
social groups, e.g. the old and disabled.
In course of your studies you will be able to
improve this skill even if you do not have a particularly developed affinity
towards working with people. During your studies, but also later in hospitals,
you will meet a lot of people besides patients - patients' families, medical
staff, technicians, administrators etc. As a part of your medical training you
will also learn not to form bonds towards patients and their diagnoses or
faiths, which is an extremely delicate problem especially when it comes to children.
3. The
ability to help people directly and make them happier
This has always been the main reason why some
people enrol into medical college. The progress of the human kind and
civilization is the purpose of almost all of the college programmes. Medicine
participates in this process in the most direct way. The most doctors would say
that there is no greater joy than the one you feel when you manage to help a
very sick patient or when a group of scientists discovers a new medicine for a
certain disease. The ability to directly help the curing process is also a
challenge and sometimes it is not easy to cope with it. For this reason your
medical education will prepare you so you can land on your feet in 99% of the
cases.
4. Team
work
Medicine nowadays is based on team work. You will
be divided into smaller groups already while at college and this will give you
a chance to perfect your people skills. These skills will also come in handy
later when you start practicing medicine; not only does a doctor cooperate with
nurses and other doctors on daily bases, but he is also a mentor figure and a
role model for his students.
Without team work you cannot succeed in the field
of medicine, so if you are a ‘lone wolf’, you might want to reconsider whether
medicine is the right choice for you.
5. Respect in society
Whether we want to admit it or not, doctors are
always on the top of the social scale. Whether you go to the theatre or to the
cinema you should know that you will be noticed. Not downright like Dr. Oz, but
a certain part of people will pay attention to you too. This also represents a
great responsibility because it is not seldom that a doctor is also a moral
authority, especially in smaller places.
On the one hand, this could be a problem because
some cannot bear this responsibility and cannot come to terms with the fact
that they have lost a part of anonymity that majority of people has. On the
other hand, this respect in society is a major factor while choosing the field
of medicine for some people. The fact that a lot of doctors end up in politics
and continue their careers as politicians supports this theory.
6. A great
need for doctors
World needs more doctors. The situation in Europe
is really good compared to some other continents like Asia or Africa. There are
also differences in numbers and need for doctors in different European
countries. A lot of EU countries that have forbidden or restricted employment
of foreign citizens do not apply this decision on doctors. In most cases
medical students get a job sometimes even the very day they graduate.
7. Safe
job, career, and lifestyle
Another not quite irrelevant reason to study
medicine is a certain stability upon graduation. This reason is becoming even
more prominent in countries still coping with recession and in a situation
where it is becoming harder and harder for young people to find a job. In case
this is your decisive reason for studying medicine, be aware that this is not
an easy or a simple job, but a job with a lot of sacrifice and personal
investment. Nevertheless, a job is waiting for you.
8. Constant
ameliorating
The end of medical studies does not mean the end of
learning. Quite the opposite - your college is providing you with basics for
further knowledge and skill development. Summits and seminars are often
organized in exotic locations in order to attract as many doctors as possible.
A lot of students see this reason as the significant difference in comparison
to other studies and for this they point medicine out as a unique example of
constant professional perfecting.
9. White
coat
This reason might seem funny to you, this may not
even seem like a reason to study medicine to you, but as something irrelevant.
Nevertheless, some students look forward to putting on their white coats during
practicing in class. White coat, other than being a clothing item and a part of
doctor's uniform, is also a representative of the order of the medical system,
cleanliness of the job, and high hygiene standards. A tidy and clean coat is
emitting a clear doctor's attitude towards patient. Precisely these reasons
make the white coat one of the reasons to start studying medicine.
10. Science
universal to the whole world
And the last, but not the least reason is a great
uniformity of medical science. Upon graduating from a medical college in Europe
you can find a job and work in any hospital in South America or anywhere else
in the world (unlike some humanistic sciences). Furthermore, the major part of
medical literature is in English, the most of the medical terms are in Latin.
You will get acquainted with English and Latin in the course of your studies so
that words like vertebra or clavicle will be nothing new neither to you nor to
a doctor on the other side of the world.
By naming these top ten reasons, we have tried to
encompass the most of the points that students of medicine name as their
motivation for studying medicine and which are the main cause for choosing
precisely this vocation. One should also not forget giving up free time which
is essential for successful ending of this college. Just as there are these ten
reasons for, there are also reasons against, but the final decision is for you
to make. Sometimes all it takes is just one reason to make the right choice.
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