All medical professionals face the same initial challenge―school. While some medical professions require a minimum of a high school degree and a year of training, such as personal care aids, the majority of aspiring medical students must study for at least four years before training. Physicians, such as surgeons and anesthesiologists, must study at a medical school and go through residency, where one practices medicine upon supervision. Likewise, medical professionals must become board certified prior to their practice.
The time it takes to become a medical professional is an expansive spectrum. However, one’s education does not stop after school. According to Dr. Peter Densen, medicine is a lifetime commitment because one is not finished after the eight plus years in school due to the constantly changing curriculum (Densen). After medical school, upcoming physicians must undergo residency and board certification. In addition, they must be certified annually to ensure they can deliver top quality care. New discoveries about medicine and oneself are made nearly everyday. It is physically …show more content…
Kalanithi felt that even though he graduated as a Biology major, there was still much more to be learned. He decided to apply for a Master’s in English Literature at Stanford. He stresses, “There must be a way, I thought, that the language of life as experienced—of passion, of hunger, of love—bore some relationship, however convoluted, to the language of neurons, digestive tracts, and heartbeats” (Kalanithi 12). Here, Kalanithi realizes that writing is one of his deepest passions and decides to pursue it. The human mind is complex structure that masks pieces of oneself within a subconscious. Similar to how people never stop learning, they also discover new aspects of themselves throughout time―sometimes it affects their
The time it takes to become a medical professional is an expansive spectrum. However, one’s education does not stop after school. According to Dr. Peter Densen, medicine is a lifetime commitment because one is not finished after the eight plus years in school due to the constantly changing curriculum (Densen). After medical school, upcoming physicians must undergo residency and board certification. In addition, they must be certified annually to ensure they can deliver top quality care. New discoveries about medicine and oneself are made nearly everyday. It is physically …show more content…
Kalanithi felt that even though he graduated as a Biology major, there was still much more to be learned. He decided to apply for a Master’s in English Literature at Stanford. He stresses, “There must be a way, I thought, that the language of life as experienced—of passion, of hunger, of love—bore some relationship, however convoluted, to the language of neurons, digestive tracts, and heartbeats” (Kalanithi 12). Here, Kalanithi realizes that writing is one of his deepest passions and decides to pursue it. The human mind is complex structure that masks pieces of oneself within a subconscious. Similar to how people never stop learning, they also discover new aspects of themselves throughout time―sometimes it affects their