3 Responses to “Thinking Of Training To Be A Doctor? Have Done Lots Of Research In The Training Process. Any Advice?”

1. Gata de Barrio Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 5:24 pm

   Mexico doesn’t have this career, but in the US you could get a university diploma to become a physician assistant. Takes only 4 years and you get to do a lot of the same things general family practitioners do and still earn very well.
   In the future you could obtain a full doctor liscense after that if you’re willing to spend another 3 years.
   I’ll just say this though; if it’s hard for a young person like me in this career because it takes away virtually all of my free time, it’s worse as you get older with children, relationships and if you have to pay your own rent. Either you’re willing to owe a university a heck of a lot of money or you may need your parents to help the costs. Most people I know that have a b/f or g/f are usually a fellow classmate in the same faculty. It’s just really, really hard to keep a serious relationship when you’re virtually never around.
   If the costs turn you down, in the best of cases you could go to university outside of the US. I go to a private university in Mexico City which costs 10,000 US each year for 5 years. Intuition is far more expensive if you’re a foreigner but it’s still far cheaper than the US and the knowledge level is good. The main downpart of my university is the stigma that it’s a preppy school for rich brats, some doctors that went to public universities tend to look down on you but it’s not too bad.

2. just trying to make a difference Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 7:04 pm

   this job profile will give you lots of info on opportunities, pay, entry requirements, training and more plus has useful links at the end http://www.learndirect-advice.co.uk/help…

3. b4f2f Says:
   November 1st, 2009 at 11:10 pm

   Art Therapist and Medical Illustrator were hot careers in 2006, and you can see if they are in the top 20 still.
   You want a serious answer, so you should research what they are doing with this…I live a 20 minute drive from Yale Med School. Ask around.
   March 2007 CT Post … first- and second-year med students heard how to take a “visual inventory” – paying attention to overall elements of the painting, such as texture and brightness, and specifics, such as body language and facial expressions.
   “This collaboration with our art colleagues is a wonderful augmentation to what we’re already doing,” said Dr. Charles Pohl, a professor of pediatrics at Jefferson and co-instructor at Friday’s workshop. “We can learn from the masters to really fine-tune our attention to detail.”
   Besides the two-hour Visual Perception workshop, others slated for the 2007-2008 school year are Accuracy and Perception, Hand-Eye Coordination, Art in Healing, and Sculpture and Surgery. The courses are a mix of demonstrations, lectures and hands-on art lessons.
   A 2001 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that medical students in a similar Yale University program acquired more astute observational skills than their colleagues who didn’t take the courses. Besides assessing a patient’s well-being during an office visit, finely honed visual abilities can also allow doctors to spot subtle changes in a patient’s X-rays over time, for example.
   “When they can take a better look at the person in front of them, it helps them make better diagnoses and leads to improved sensitivity to the patient,” said the academy’s painting department chair, Al Gury, workshop co-instructor. “That’s a critical area that many feel is needed in the medical profession.”

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