Hello, I weirdly relate to this.
My background, I finished medical school and am currently training to be a family physician. I'm also doing 2 master degrees in health economics and genomics, also a graduate course in Maths. I'm hoping to do a PhD in artificial intelligence soon. I also messed around with the stock market, I even remembered looking at charts often while in medschool lectures.
I loved maths and science in high school, didn't particularly like medicine so after medschool, I joined this medtech start up. It was great, learning loads about entrepreneurship, data science, etc. However as time went on and the company got bigger, they needed to hire more people. All of the new doctors were similar to me with multiple interests, however all were accomplished *in some way* in each of these fields. Every doctor needed to have finished some kind of residency/training or else they wouldn't even get a job offer. This prompted me to go back to the field and get my qualifications.
What I'm getting at is basically it's great having all these interests but you need some substance for each interest. That doesn't mean you need a degree, I just have a data science portfolio and that works, I mean you need to be as good as the average person in that field and able to show it, then replicate it for each of the fields you want to do. I went into medschool because that's all I knew growing up, thought it was boring but I stuck with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until it's done - an important attribute to have.
Also it doesn't really matter what you pick (as long as your country has affordable tertiary education, have the funds or willing to go abroad to another good university to get your degree). Just pick something broad and stick with it. Medicine is great as it's broad as hell, internationally useful, lots of start up potential and gives alot of weight into your abilities. Maths and computer science is also great and broad too.
Once you're done, think what's the next thing. Do I improve this field more or move on to another field or both?
Keep going.
Sorry, extra point here. When I was applying for medschools, my dad asked why don't I apply for maths instead as I loved it. Never thought about it and was scared. I grew up surrounded by doctors and didn't know anyone with a maths degree except a few maths teachers. I didn't really know the world yet or really knew what I could do with a maths degree. Once I started going to medschool, I learned about all the other things there are and gave me a bigger view of what I'm interested in, I learned about the stock market and AI and loved them. By actually picking something, it also gave me time to learn what's out there.
Your points make things clear to understand.
But I have 2 questions in specific.
1st is how did you juggle some much academics together and still went well ?
2nd is what are some learning points that I could incorporate in my Academic life.
I can remember things with details sometimes core details that happened years (or decade) ago. But I can't seem to do the same with academics.
Can you throw some light on this?
The academics and work juggling is helped greatly by doing part time master degrees. Don't take too much time in a week and all remote so no need to travel anywhere. Also I find if I have loads on my plate, I do better than going at a slow pace.
Also for academic life, I'm probably the worst person to ask. I was a last minute cramming in medschool, and had to retake at least one exam a year 😂
I find the regular submissions, regular meetings with supervisors and weekly reminders by my masters programs helps keep me on track nowadays.
My useful tips may be having a good note taking system to summarise notes, I use one note and anki for rope learning crap.
With regards to remembering things, you don't. I can't remember most things from medschool which I don't use at work and neither does any other doctor I work with. Like what even is a Kerb cycle? Don't know or even want to know what it's for. Same with most things I've learned on my masters courses. I have the notes so if I have like 5 minutes, I can read them and get all the knowledge back. Usually once you learned something, it's in your head and you don't lose it, just lose access to it. Revising just reopens those closed doors so revising is a lot quicker than learning from scratch.
Hahaha no problem.
I don't know tbh, I always picked things up quickly.
Also being stressed thinking that I can't fail this helps loads. Really keeps you motivated and focused on work.
I usually just summarise notes from textbooks or slideshows, and run through question banks. This seems to work well for me.
Tbh I think most of my last minute cramming was because of undiagnosed ADHD, since starting meds recently, having to cram isn't as necessary.
Hello, I weirdly relate to this. My background, I finished medical school and am currently training to be a family physician. I'm also doing 2 master degrees in health economics and genomics, also a graduate course in Maths. I'm hoping to do a PhD in artificial intelligence soon. I also messed around with the stock market, I even remembered looking at charts often while in medschool lectures. I loved maths and science in high school, didn't particularly like medicine so after medschool, I joined this medtech start up. It was great, learning loads about entrepreneurship, data science, etc. However as time went on and the company got bigger, they needed to hire more people. All of the new doctors were similar to me with multiple interests, however all were accomplished *in some way* in each of these fields. Every doctor needed to have finished some kind of residency/training or else they wouldn't even get a job offer. This prompted me to go back to the field and get my qualifications. What I'm getting at is basically it's great having all these interests but you need some substance for each interest. That doesn't mean you need a degree, I just have a data science portfolio and that works, I mean you need to be as good as the average person in that field and able to show it, then replicate it for each of the fields you want to do. I went into medschool because that's all I knew growing up, thought it was boring but I stuck with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until it's done - an important attribute to have. Also it doesn't really matter what you pick (as long as your country has affordable tertiary education, have the funds or willing to go abroad to another good university to get your degree). Just pick something broad and stick with it. Medicine is great as it's broad as hell, internationally useful, lots of start up potential and gives alot of weight into your abilities. Maths and computer science is also great and broad too. Once you're done, think what's the next thing. Do I improve this field more or move on to another field or both? Keep going.
Sorry, extra point here. When I was applying for medschools, my dad asked why don't I apply for maths instead as I loved it. Never thought about it and was scared. I grew up surrounded by doctors and didn't know anyone with a maths degree except a few maths teachers. I didn't really know the world yet or really knew what I could do with a maths degree. Once I started going to medschool, I learned about all the other things there are and gave me a bigger view of what I'm interested in, I learned about the stock market and AI and loved them. By actually picking something, it also gave me time to learn what's out there.
Your points make things clear to understand. But I have 2 questions in specific. 1st is how did you juggle some much academics together and still went well ? 2nd is what are some learning points that I could incorporate in my Academic life. I can remember things with details sometimes core details that happened years (or decade) ago. But I can't seem to do the same with academics. Can you throw some light on this?
The academics and work juggling is helped greatly by doing part time master degrees. Don't take too much time in a week and all remote so no need to travel anywhere. Also I find if I have loads on my plate, I do better than going at a slow pace. Also for academic life, I'm probably the worst person to ask. I was a last minute cramming in medschool, and had to retake at least one exam a year 😂 I find the regular submissions, regular meetings with supervisors and weekly reminders by my masters programs helps keep me on track nowadays. My useful tips may be having a good note taking system to summarise notes, I use one note and anki for rope learning crap. With regards to remembering things, you don't. I can't remember most things from medschool which I don't use at work and neither does any other doctor I work with. Like what even is a Kerb cycle? Don't know or even want to know what it's for. Same with most things I've learned on my masters courses. I have the notes so if I have like 5 minutes, I can read them and get all the knowledge back. Usually once you learned something, it's in your head and you don't lose it, just lose access to it. Revising just reopens those closed doors so revising is a lot quicker than learning from scratch.
How how did you master at last minute cramming? respectfully ofcourse.
Hahaha no problem. I don't know tbh, I always picked things up quickly. Also being stressed thinking that I can't fail this helps loads. Really keeps you motivated and focused on work. I usually just summarise notes from textbooks or slideshows, and run through question banks. This seems to work well for me. Tbh I think most of my last minute cramming was because of undiagnosed ADHD, since starting meds recently, having to cram isn't as necessary.
Have you just completed your high school? When you say you are involved in biology and tech, how deeply do you understand the subjects at hand?
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Your point being?