HELP ME !!!!

Yea lol. thx

Ash444 Hey, that’s fine too! Ultimately the forum is for helping students like you out and the more we get to know what you want in your career, the better we can answer your original post, but you only need to share what you want to divulge. Since it appears to be personal, we can leave it at that.

In that case, you’re looking at careers with a mix of neurology, oncology and bioengineering. You also want to help people, to travel, to have spare time to do your boxing training/ be a pro boxer. Most of the things I’ve specified before are potential ideas for you. I’d also put out there the idea of medical/ bioengineering research, specialising in brain cancer, but this is lower down the list compared to most other careers I’ve listed, or biomedical engineering or medical engineering as Jinx and _Sophiestudies _ have said, which combine both areas.

Now to link back to your med vs. eng problem. With all your posts, I think you could do either.

Medicine would take longer to specialise and have less free time, as stated already. Engineering wouldn’t take as long and give you more spare time to go into boxing, but it will become harder to get into some of these fields.

In the end, the choice is yours and remember that there’s multiple pathways to get where you want.

Mina

You don't automatically become a GP after completing the degree. You will still need at least a further 5 years of working/training before becoming a GP (2 years before you can apply for GP training and then 3 years of that training) so it is definitely also considered a "speciality"

Ash444

When you are specialising you are working at the same time.

To be a Neurosurgeon you would need to complete your medical degree, complete about 2 years working as a junior doctor, work a few years as an unaccredited surgery/neurosurgery registrar (it gets quite difficult to get onto a neurosurgery training spot immediately and it can take someone multiple years - it's not unheard of people waiting 6-7 years to try to get it and either ultimately getting in or changing onto something else). Then once you get a training spot it's a further 5 years of work/study.

Sine i agree with what u’ve said but in general to receive the degree it takes only 5 yrs whereas specialising in a specific field takes longer to earn a degree. (This is without adding a general course and training) so to become a gp it would take less time.

Mina I think you're saying the shortest pathway, which is the university medical degree (typically bachelor & doctor of medicine, or similarly named), is 5 years? (Although it's typically 5-6 years depending on which uni you go to.) As Sine has already mentioned, once you finish your degree(s), you are not a GP automatically. If we link back to your earlier posts, OP, Ash444, could become a pro boxer after the degree(s) while working towards a specialisation e.g. neurosurgery, but that would be quite a lot on anyone's plate, especially if both are full time positions (med doesn't go part time easily, if my understanding is correct?).

Full disclosure: I studied a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and now working in the healthcare industry, but I am less familiar with the ins and outs of medicine. Sine would know better than I do about the pathways within med, as they're a med student.

Ash444

what areas would you like to know about?