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A career in Neurology

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has any tips for medical students (in clinical years), who are wanting to pursue a career in neurology? Is there anything you can do whilst in med school, that would look favourable for your application?

Reply 1

TheMedicOwl

This is maybe going off on a tangent, but why is neurosurgery so wildly popular? Is it just on TSR, or in general? I'm a GEM 2022 hopeful so I don't know the ins and outs of specialties, and I'm just curious as to why everyone and their dog seems to want this one!

Reply 2

TheMedicOwl

That makes sense. I feel like an anomaly, as surgery is the thing I'm least looking forward to about medicine (assuming I get a place). Hopefully I'll get more confident, but right now it looks like a very high stakes version of my primary school's Food and Textiles class, where I was in permanent trouble for cutting things up wrong/stitching the wrong thing to other wrong things in the wrong way...

Reply 3

EMBaguette

Originally I was considering becoming a neuropsychologist but now after some research I'm quite interested in neurology. But I realise this involves med school which is something I've never considered before and I don't think I have the right A level for, (I do Bio, Maths and Psychology).
Which med schools are best for my situation? and is it worth considering?
Also is there much surgery involved?

Reply 4

EMBaguette

Thank you that helped me out a lot :smile:

, also I'm a little confused on how med school works is it just the same for everybody and you specialise after or does this happen during your time at med school. In other words how do you get into neurology?

Reply 5

EMBaguette

Ahhh so if I am correct including med school it takes around 14 years. would you personally say its worth it? just wondering if its annoying to cover all aspects of medicine when really you just want to cover neurology. And are there any other possible ways of going into neurology like a degree or doctorate or something. Again thanks for your help :smile:

Reply 6

EMBaguette