Grace Hatton
Pharmacist and medical student
Birmingham (UK)
Birmingham (UK)
Pharmacist and medical student
I study medicine and work as a pharmacist.
A great day involves shadowing / working on the wards as a medical student; examining and assessing patients, performing work-ups, sitting in on clinics and teaching. It's pretty cool because you see a range of different conditions and have to divulge from the patient and clinical data what is wrong with them and what we can do to help; I like to think of it as detective work.
Here's the first step for high school students
Be enthusiastic; be keen and involved; try and ignore what everyone else that wants to do what you're interested in (to an extent) - otherwise everyone ends up with the same application form essays. It's so important to consider WHY you want to do medicine (and don't worry about being selfish - it doesn't all have to be about "changing the world". There's nothing wrong with being entrepreneurial about it).