I answered a resounding yes to all
-Ask yourself some questions:
* Do I care deeply about other people, their problems, and their pain?
* Do I enjoy helping people with my skills and knowledge?
* Do I enjoy learning, gaining new understanding? Do I often dig deeper into a subject than my teacher requires? Do I understand the value of learning beyond just making good grades?
* Am I interested in how the human body functions? Am I intrigued by the ways medicine can be used to improve life?
If you answered "Yes" to most of these questions, chances are you have the right kind of personality for a medical career.-
This is from an AAMC website (Amer. Assoc. of Medical Colleges, I believe). I'm going to post them places and remember them and paste them in all my science and notebooks (I am not kidding!), and refer to them whenever I hear another version of that old thing about "if you have an apptitude for math and science, or if you excelled in math and science in high school, you might consider a career in medicine or something similar, or you will be a good candidate for medical school," or the next time I'm feeling really super stupid about, or in, chemistry, lethally-graded biology, or math-related subjects. ;/
~RMH
* Do I care deeply about other people, their problems, and their pain?
* Do I enjoy helping people with my skills and knowledge?
* Do I enjoy learning, gaining new understanding? Do I often dig deeper into a subject than my teacher requires? Do I understand the value of learning beyond just making good grades?
* Am I interested in how the human body functions? Am I intrigued by the ways medicine can be used to improve life?
If you answered "Yes" to most of these questions, chances are you have the right kind of personality for a medical career.-
This is from an AAMC website (Amer. Assoc. of Medical Colleges, I believe). I'm going to post them places and remember them and paste them in all my science and notebooks (I am not kidding!), and refer to them whenever I hear another version of that old thing about "if you have an apptitude for math and science, or if you excelled in math and science in high school, you might consider a career in medicine or something similar, or you will be a good candidate for medical school," or the next time I'm feeling really super stupid about, or in, chemistry, lethally-graded biology, or math-related subjects. ;/
~RMH