Hey, friends! Hope you enjoyed today's video about "4 Years Of Medical School Explained". Take advantage of all my favorite med school tips and tricks in this free guide here! (themdjourney.com/med-school-success-handbook/) Good luck on your journey! 💪
As someone who has built a career in a totally opposite spectrum of work, is older (40s), and has a family, the thought of dropping everything to chase a dream is super scary. I would have to start from square one since I never finished college when I was younger so you’re talking me being in my late 50’s IF all went well and I made it through. Just so many roadblocks off the rip and so many possibilities of failure… that’s my stress. Lol
As long as you're determined, there's no such thing as too old. Current med student and the oldest student in my class is doing medicine as his third career. Almost 50
Good question. I think approaches to minimize inflammation and avoid progression of metabolic deregulation is known by many doctors but often many of us deal with acute illness. For instance - if I have someone come to me with a heart attack - supplements, diet, etc. Will not benefit them acutely. Thus traditional medicine wins there. But in the long term - I do believe that educating pts on how to minimize need for meds via lifestyle changes and optimization is key. Problem is - at least in cardiology - these often require a shift in behaviors. Many who have heart disease are from a cumulative effect of their daily choices. For many of these pts - hoping they'll make significant enough shifts especially when their short term risks (ie. A heart attack in my field) are high is why prescription drugs are our go to (not without their own cons of course). Hope that helps!
@@TheMDJourney That does help. We should have a real health care system. Where the Doctor(s) teach the public how to prevent acute illness instead of wait until we get really sick and give us drugs. Of course the drug companies would not get rich that way.
Hey Lakshya your videos are amazing and got a lot from them. I am about to start optometry school and was looking for good ways to tackle this semester and the entire program. Would picmonic work?
Thanks for the comment! I enjoy Picmonic! Would just have to find the courses/topics there that compliment what you're learning in class. Then have to say Step #1 - Lecture or Picmonic -> Step 2 Review Notes -> Step 3 Picmonic Quiz questions This is an example but the flow needs to be predictable.
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Hey, friends! Hope you enjoyed today's video about "4 Years Of Medical School Explained". Take advantage of all my favorite med school tips and tricks in this free guide here! (themdjourney.com/med-school-success-handbook/) Good luck on your journey! 💪
As someone who has built a career in a totally opposite spectrum of work, is older (40s), and has a family, the thought of dropping everything to chase a dream is super scary. I would have to start from square one since I never finished college when I was younger so you’re talking me being in my late 50’s IF all went well and I made it through. Just so many roadblocks off the rip and so many possibilities of failure… that’s my stress. Lol
Do you learn how to determine root cause of illness and how to heal or prevent using nutrition and lifestyle?
In your opinion, what age would you consider to be too risky to attempt or consider an MD degree?
As long as you're determined, there's no such thing as too old. Current med student and the oldest student in my class is doing medicine as his third career. Almost 50
@@NO1xANIMExFAN Way cool
Do you learn how to think your approach to medicine is superior and all other approaches like diet fasting herbs and supplements are inferior?
Good question. I think approaches to minimize inflammation and avoid progression of metabolic deregulation is known by many doctors but often many of us deal with acute illness. For instance - if I have someone come to me with a heart attack - supplements, diet, etc. Will not benefit them acutely. Thus traditional medicine wins there. But in the long term - I do believe that educating pts on how to minimize need for meds via lifestyle changes and optimization is key. Problem is - at least in cardiology - these often require a shift in behaviors. Many who have heart disease are from a cumulative effect of their daily choices. For many of these pts - hoping they'll make significant enough shifts especially when their short term risks (ie. A heart attack in my field) are high is why prescription drugs are our go to (not without their own cons of course).
Hope that helps!
@@TheMDJourney That does help. We should have a real health care system. Where the Doctor(s) teach the public how to prevent acute illness instead of wait until we get really sick and give us drugs. Of course the drug companies would not get rich that way.
Hey Lakshya your videos are amazing and got a lot from them. I am about to start optometry school and was looking for good ways to tackle this semester and the entire program. Would picmonic work?
Thanks for the comment! I enjoy Picmonic! Would just have to find the courses/topics there that compliment what you're learning in class. Then have to say Step #1 - Lecture or Picmonic -> Step 2 Review Notes -> Step 3 Picmonic Quiz questions
This is an example but the flow needs to be predictable.
it is not good to reduce medical studies from 6 years to 4 years becouse of the doctor ego, but it is practical.