Career Goals: Allopatric, Traditional And Osteopathic Medicine

My career goals mostly consist of me becoming a doctor. I plan on graduating college, and then moving on to medical school where I would gain my credentials as a doctor. I would particularly like to attend a school of osteopathic medicine, but when compared to medical school, there are way less schools to attend. Not having as many schools of osteopathic medicine to apply to automatically presents me a challenge because the way in which I learn medicine will change drastically due to the very different philosophies between allopatric, traditional, and osteopathic medicine. Going to an allopatric medical school would force me to learn more of a rigid, traditional approach to medicine and treating patients. Meanwhile, attending an osteopathic …show more content…
Psychiatry is an often looked over filed of medicine when compared to the more popular types like surgeon and anesthesiologist, but psychiatry is just as important as any of the other areas. More importantly, there is expected to be major job growth in the field. Psychiatry is a relatively recent field when you look at the timeline of psychology, so the field is far from the beginning and has a lot more potential. However, fields like surgery and anesthesia also have room to go, but their immediate future involves being displaced by robots that can do the job better. So, in that sense, it would be better to be in a field like psychiatry that is still from being overrun by robots. Also, either while I am in medical school or after, I plan to get a master’s, then a doctorate in psychology. It does not particularly matter to me when I start to pursue this master’s degree because I would be in school for a long time either way, and as long as I am in school I will not be pursued for student loans. However, getting the master’s while in medical school would be the most complicated and taxing, but also the most time efficient. I believe that having the title of medical doctor, or an osteopathic doctor, would be great, but it is only a professional degree. The note is that it is traditionally only for one …show more content…
But, the most potent source of motivation is my dissatisfaction with the current state of things. Medicine is extremely biased field, in how they treat people internally and externally, and the United States government is failing, heading towards failure, anarchy, revolution, or all three, whether people want to realize it or not. Also, the way American society treats its underprivileged and under-represented people is absolutely sickening and horrifying. My belief is that if you want to s=change something, you should do it yourself. So, even if I do not make a lasting impression in medical school, or have a completely successful NGO, my goal is to just ‘stir things up,’ and essentially act as a catalyst for change. As long as I managed to change at least one thing, or start to cause people to talk about and consider an issue in ways that they never previously thought before, I have achieved my career goal. I am not interested in pursuing money or becoming regarded in my field like others, I just want to make some sort of difference. Anyone can invent something, or cure a rare disease, but would those cures matter in a world that still medically/economically discriminates against people, potentially inhibiting those people from getting the cure, and is that invention still a great idea when it is being used to subjugate, injure, and oppress others? To me, the greatest possible thing a person can do in their