How do I decide what to do for uni?
It’s coming to the time of the year where I have to decide and work on my applications for where I want to apply to next year and I’m stuck between medicine and Literature. Literature is my entire passion and I don’t see a future where I do not pick up and feel in myself the entire book that I’m reading but I don’t see anything career wise in it. Medicine is something I’ve been working towards for five years and it is a challenge but it is also a passion of mine, not as much as literature, but I see a definitive career in neurobiology in it. I’m very confused as to which one I should pick. Does anyone have any advice?
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Original post by meisgreat27
It’s coming to the time of the year where I have to decide and work on my applications for where I want to apply to next year and I’m stuck between medicine and Literature. Literature is my entire passion and I don’t see a future where I do not pick up and feel in myself the entire book that I’m reading but I don’t see anything career wise in it. Medicine is something I’ve been working towards for five years and it is a challenge but it is also a passion of mine, not as much as literature, but I see a definitive career in neurobiology in it. I’m very confused as to which one I should pick. Does anyone have any advice?
Hopefully you will get some better answers on this but I would say if you are not sure about medicine come next August take a gap year.Get as much experience as you can this year but if you are unsure at all delay @MedMama can you advise here please
Original post by Scotney
Hopefully you will get some better answers on this but I would say if you are not sure about medicine come next August take a gap year.Get as much experience as you can this year but if you are unsure at all delay @MedMama can you advise here please
thanks again @Scotney
FAO @meisgreat27
the advice on the medicine threads would be that if you are not totally sure about medicine, it is better to not apply because medicine is gruelling- just the application process, never mind the degree and professional exams
yet I do understand the dilemma as son has a natural flair for languages and literature, but I think you have to be like him in that you are so committed to studying medicine that it is not a case of where you get accepted even if for literature, you would aim for the very top universities
there is the possibility of graduate medicine but that is cautioned against by the most experienced and qualified of the TSR advisors on the basis that it is more competitive again to get a place and will cost more to do another degree first
however, the implications of the proposed NHS workforce plan could be that it might not be so tough to find a GEM place as it is at present
(edited 9 months ago)
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