Should i go into medicine?? HELP

idk what i want to do as a career, but im considering studying medicine at uni. ive hear many ppl say that u shouldn't do it unless ur super passionate abt it, and that its a rlly hard and long degree. i js need some advice from anyone who has or is currently studying medicine. Is it rlly hard? r u worried abt the debt? what a levels are required?

Realistically if you are questioning yourself about the choice past year 12, you will not get a uni place and you aren't going to be committed enough if you do get in.
Medicine is debatably the hardest undergraduate uni course you could take and the application process reflects this.
Debt is obviously a factor but it occurs in all uni courses, although the job you get once out of uni does not pay well- foundation year doctors, formerly known as junior doctors.
You need at minimum 3 A's at a-level with A* preferred, biology and chemistry are a must with any other. You'd also have to take the UCAT which is an "iq test" but actually tests your intelligence and morals. No sugarcoating it would be the hardest test you would ever take.
What year are you in right now?

tysm for the advice, im in yr 11

idk what i want to do as a career, but im considering studying medicine at uni. ive hear many ppl say that u shouldn't do it unless ur super passionate abt it, and that its a rlly hard and long degree. i js need some advice from anyone who has or is currently studying medicine. Is it rlly hard? r u worried abt the debt? what a levels are required?

Realistically if you are questioning yourself about the choice past year 12, you will not get a uni place and you aren't going to be committed enough if you do get in.
Medicine is debatably the hardest undergraduate uni course you could take and the application process reflects this.
Debt is obviously a factor but it occurs in all uni courses, although the job you get once out of uni does not pay well- foundation year doctors, formerly known as junior doctors.
You need at minimum 3 A's at a-level with A* preferred, biology and chemistry are a must with any other. You'd also have to take the UCAT which is an "iq test" but actually tests your intelligence and morals. No sugarcoating it would be the hardest test you would ever take.
What year are you in right now?

"Junior doctor" has been replaced by "resident doctor". "Foundation doctor" is still a thing.
Pretty sure quite a few medical schools nowadays don't require chemistry A level.
The UCAT is definitely not the hardest test you will ever take (in medicine or otherwise!) 😂

do u study medicine?

"Junior doctor" has been replaced by "resident doctor". "Foundation doctor" is still a thing.
Pretty sure quite a few medical schools nowadays don't require chemistry A level.
The UCAT is definitely not the hardest test you will ever take (in medicine or otherwise!) 😂

Its called simplifying, the usual a-levels are chemistry, biology and one more, I know it isn't restricted to that.
To be honest, I totally forgot the resident doctor thing, I know the foundation years were what junior doctors did but it just slipped my mind.
And I might have exaggerated slightly but do you really think a 14-15 year old has taken a harder test than the ucat?

People on this forum are applying for medicine, I'm sure they won't be overwhelmed by the unsimplified details
Well, speaking from personal experience I found the bleep test we were made to do in PE much tougher than the UCAT - and I'm not some sort of UCAT genius.

Graduated, I've been working for some years now.

are u a junior/resident doctor?

Yep.

do u mind if i ask u how much ur paid, and if its easy for a starting doctor to find a training job near them?

Graduated, I've been working for some years now.

What would you say were the key factors behind your high intelligence? Did you have any particular hobbies as a young kid, like Chess? Did your parents help to develop your intellect whilst you were still an infant?
There is some research in Molecular Psychiatry that suggests very high levels of intelligence are polygenic in nature, but genes can be influenced by the environment at any stage of life. The most important phase of brain development happens between 0-5, hence the questions l asked.

I don't know if it was your intention, but your reply sounded narcissistic.