Choosing A Medical Career

When a teenager tells a group of adults that they want to go into a medical career they usually get a crazy look and people trying to tell them that they should choose an easier career that does not take as much schooling and that will not amount in potential lawsuits. Becoming a doctor of any specialty is extremely hard and requires a vast amount motivation. Doctors usually go through twelve years of regular schooling, four years of college, another four years of medical school, and then residency which can take up another eight years totaling to about thirteen more years after you have finished high school. This also contributes to the other problem which is that after all of this secondary education. People who say that becoming a doctor …show more content…
Medical school is a four year schooling after high school and is one of the hardest parts of becoming a doctor. During the duration of medical school students are stretched to the max taking double the amount of classes that they did in college and starting hands on training in actual hospitals or doctors’ offices with real patients, a first time for impending doctors. Courses differ depending on the medical school that you attend. Harvard Medical school, one of the most well known and prestigious medical schools, give a basic guideline of what most medical students will take for classes including: basic medical classes that cover molecular, cellular, and genetic based courses that are specific to medicine, added to this is is foundational science classes much like what you learn in college but at a much higher level, these include anatomy, cellular biology, immunology, and pathology. Also included is basic medical procedures such as how to give a physical exam, a huge portion of medical which goes over diseases and how to defend against them. These classes listed are just half of your first year of medical school, one of the easiest of medical school