Thanks for your question. I am really impressed to hear that you would like to be a doctor. There are many different universities which offer a medical degree. Some focus on classroom learning in the early years, whilst others offer a problem based learning approach so have a think about which approach would suit you best.
Do a medical degree to enable you to be a doctor can open up lots of different possibilities for future work so it’s a great starting point. You may already have some ideas of what kind of doctor you’d like to be, I’d encourage you to stay curious and keep an open mind as to which direction being a doctor might take you. When I was a vet school, lots of my friends had specific ideas of the kind of vet they wanted to be – some of them have followed those ideas, whereas others have changed their mind since leaving vet school (for example, a friend who said at vet school that he’d never work with horses is now a full time horse vet; another friend who hated doing epidemiology (managing diseases in groups of animals or people, rather than treating individual animals or people) is now working for Worldwide Conservation Society where she works on projects to reduce infectious disease in many different wildlife species in South East Asia. I started out as a vet treating horses in the UK, before I got involved in with charity project aiming to improve the welfare of working horses overseas (managing very different types of problems from what I’d been trained to manage here in the UK) before I went into charity research. I wish you all the best with figuring out what kind of doctor related work will give you the most job satisfaction as there are endless possibilities.
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Do a medical degree to enable you to be a doctor can open up lots of different possibilities for future work so it’s a great starting point. You may already have some ideas of what kind of doctor you’d like to be, I’d encourage you to stay curious and keep an open mind as to which direction being a doctor might take you. When I was a vet school, lots of my friends had specific ideas of the kind of vet they wanted to be – some of them have followed those ideas, whereas others have changed their mind since leaving vet school (for example, a friend who said at vet school that he’d never work with horses is now a full time horse vet; another friend who hated doing epidemiology (managing diseases in groups of animals or people, rather than treating individual animals or people) is now working for Worldwide Conservation Society where she works on projects to reduce infectious disease in many different wildlife species in South East Asia. I started out as a vet treating horses in the UK, before I got involved in with charity project aiming to improve the welfare of working horses overseas (managing very different types of problems from what I’d been trained to manage here in the UK) before I went into charity research. I wish you all the best with figuring out what kind of doctor related work will give you the most job satisfaction as there are endless possibilities.