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i want to be a doctor

• Mr_TYS

  13 Feb 12, 19:48

  Hi everyone! May i ask if there are any doctors out here? or people who know about occupation of doctors. Well you see, i want to be a doctor, a physician at a clinic preferably. However, I have no idea how to start with. 

  For your info, i am just sec 3 this year and i know there's a long way to go, but i would like to know the path i must take. My subject combi for o levels is Triple Sciences along with Amaths and Emaths. And my A maths is kinda suckish. But i can occasionally get a C5 to B3 during exams. I am 100% singaporean, and i am trying to find the path to take. Someone please guide me :(. I love Biology btw and i am average in it.

• Jacky Woo

  13 Feb 12, 19:57

  you need to score straight As for your A levels.  even with that, it is not guaranteed you will get into medical school as there are many others with the same grade.

  so why do you want to be a doctor?

• Mr_TYS

  13 Feb 12, 20:01

  kinda my aspiration you see... i was sick all the time when i was young and doctors always cheered me up :) god straight As? :(

• dangerboi

  13 Feb 12, 20:56

  straight As can't guarantee you a place in yong loo lin school of medicine.

  Though triple science isn't a requirement, it's good that you take triple science during o and A levels. Preferably with 2 S papers for A levels. 

   

• Mr_TYS

  13 Feb 12, 23:25

  @dangerboi thanks! very encouraging. I will try and strive hard to achieve my goal. :D

• FireIce

  13 Feb 12, 23:34

  for a start, all A1s for ur Os

• Just_do_it_lah

  13 Feb 12, 23:56

  

• Siliconchip

  14 Feb 12, 00:28

  phd better than medical degree

• ditzy

  14 Feb 12, 00:53

  Originally posted by Mr_TYS:

  kinda my aspiration you see... i was sick all the time when i was young and doctors always cheered me up :) god straight As? :(

  When I was young, the decepticons always cheered me up. But that can't kinda remain my aspiration.

• ditzy

  14 Feb 12, 00:55

  Yeah, straight As, and make sure your CCA contribution can bring your score to negative value.  You can't get into the top JC with 0 points these days. Pardon me, but I ain't sure how the system works these days.

• Siliconchip

  14 Feb 12, 01:32

  Doctors are not so smart la, if they were, why are there millions of them?

• DailyFreeGames.com

  14 Feb 12, 03:09

  Be doctor good lah, hope more doctors in the world. Everyone should be a doctor if they can. lol. not me... i don't like to work, i like to be a fatty bomb bomb.

• speakoutfor

  14 Feb 12, 12:57

  I know of two friends who didn't get good grades. One went to Indonesia to study meds. The other went to Russia to study meds.

  First one came back - he became a substandard doctor.

  The other one gave up because he could not bare the Moscow winter.

• alize

  14 Feb 12, 13:14

  Long course, hard mugging, hard exams, compulsory attachment for years with low pay (if you come back to Singapore, that's why 2/5 of those who study abroad stay there). It'll be years before you make a profit. Know a doctor who only broke even at age 40.

• Veggie Bao

  14 Feb 12, 13:31

  Just study hard......and have a talk with your parents.....

  (because the cost is quite high....and maybe if u cannot get in locally, try going overseas. So all this need to have a discussion with ur parents)

   

• Juneeci

  14 Feb 12, 16:21

  That's what i think too .