Why is medicine dominated by so many medical families?

Seems like a lot of people in medical school have parents aunties etc who are GPs etc. They go to private schools and have inside information etc I am not criticizing them because they just want the best for themselves but has anyone noticed this?

Seems like a lot of people in medical school have parents aunties etc who are GPs etc. They go to private schools and have inside information etc I am not criticizing them because they just want the best for themselves but has anyone noticed this?

Honestly a lot of doctors actively try and put their children off from pursuing a career in medicine.

yes but a lot will also tell them how good it is and pressure them into it also a lot will go to private school have extra tuition etc

Okay so like lots of other middle class families then.

but with the added benefit of admissions help work experience etc

Think of it this way: children with doctors in the family grow up around the culture of that profession and have their whole early life to learn about it at the dinner table so when it gets to applying.. they sound a lot more clued up on the realities of being a doctor (as well as the insider info about current topics in the field) mainly because they are. They receive free and unconditional mentoring from loved ones who i imagine are far more involved with their learning and development than say for a first gen med applicant with no family links who maybe gets a few weeks of volunteer work with doctors that don’t know them or their story very well. Children of doctors can easily ‘fall into’ the career simply because of all of the help around them to direct them with how to apply, how to answer questions, explore specific passions. Stuff like that is priceless.

Seems like a lot of people in medical school have parents aunties etc who are GPs etc. They go to private schools and have inside information etc I am not criticizing them because they just want the best for themselves but has anyone noticed this?

You can also say exactly the same for trades. Miners, builders, plumbers, carpenters, many craft trades etc.

Any parents who hold down a long-term job can give their kids insider information about how to ace the application and interview process, the key things to say, important habits to adopt, the times to apply, etc.

no but they are not difficult to get into nor particularly desirable occupations to a lot of people

But that's not relevant to your question. You can't stop parental relationships working the way they work just because some provide more popular benefits (at least by your perspective) than others.

I wasn't saying it was parental relationships more insider help and unfair admissions practices that could explain it.

What 'insider help'?
What 'unfair admissions practices'?

I can't think of another university course which has admissions information and data which is more transparent, more accessible and more analysed than medicine. Can you?