kai! na urban and regional planning (town planning) hard pass even for school an dem dey under go the greatest stress sef.

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Why would someone compare Medicine&Surgery with IT. Yes, I agree that they are two indispensable fields , if mankind must make headway, but the comparison thereof is just uncalled for. Let me give you guys an insight into medical school.
After the pre-medical year, medical students go over to pre-clinicals. This stage lasts for 18months<in Nigeria> and it is here that medics delve into anatomy , biochem, and physiology. Meanwhile, other students studying these individual courses for their first degrees are using 4 years each. But medics use 18months of their schooling to complete the same course content as them ---4years*3 =12years.
What more stress could anyone ask for?
IT could be difficult. Yes. But Medicine aint beans either.

These are two different area of specialisation, maybe when i start my medical career i will know which one is harder.

medicine is tough,  cos we deal with the very complicated human life. its not just about cram work, but having an in-depth  understanding of what u r studying cos u ll ever need to apply it. ever wondered how tasking it is to operate on a fetus, or even a neonate. or open an abdomen and correct some stuff? or open the heart, and replace a faulty heart valve with a brand new one, or even transplant a whole new heart., or correct some developmental anomalies or open the skull and operate on the brain.The list is unending.medicine has undergone a lot of evolutions and lots of innovations over thousands of years and yet the mystery of the  human body is yet unsolved. IT is only a few years old, so i dont believe that it merits being compared with medicine. Believe it or not, the scope of IT cannot be equated with the EAR-- the OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGISTS will tell u that, let alone the entire human being (not just the human body alone)
I must though admit that we r applying some IT stuff in the day to day practise of medicine. Now we talk of Telemedicine, and Robotic medicine ,  yet i dont know how many of U that will allow a robot operate on them (though its very safe).

That's why I always feel that people who are good at, or love maths/ science are lucky. Their careers pay the best. It doesn't mean that maths is more difficult than english. just that one pays better than the other based on the need of the society at the point in time. too bad for you if math or science are not your strength. doesn't mean you are dumb. just means you are unlucky to have to work harder to compete with a guy who is having fun doing his programming or what have you because he's naturally better at it.

my own general advice for people is to pursue what they love. if there isn't money to be made at it, pursue it part-time or as a hobby. who knows you might become of you in the future.
the most successful at their career are those who are passionate about what they do.

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I think medicine is harder

Sure not every body needs the services of a Doctor. I for one cannot remember the years I have tasted drug or visit blood tasting hospitals, you too can if you believe!

we cannot just reckon that IT is harder than medicine.
Medicine has far more devastating effect in the event of the slightest error than IT, both are hard in their own context, there is no candid basis to judge which is harder,

Medical Doctors stop reading once thy have been employ to give injection to patients, if IT engineers like me stop reading, my ppl, you will still be using Nokia 3310 instead of BlackBerry, Ipad and Ipod, by now , Ordinary HIV they can even find the cure for it

Well none of the 2 careers are hard, everything depends on the person studying them lol, you make something hard when you dont know what they do there lol

Funny thread

How is this an argument?

Am not even a doctor but anyone who deals with the human body is no joke. Have you considered the psychological and sociological aspects of medicine. I think you learn more about life through medicine. On the other hand, IT makes life easier and now its driven by money. Doctors are never on the forbes richest list.

Cos of its importance, medicine is highly regulated, you can't wing your grades in school.

There are two sides to a coin, what is harder for me might be easier for you and vice-versa.

Both of them are easy!, Dr. Ben Carson was a dullard when he was little, and Billy Gates dropped out of school. It all really depends on u!

kshow1:

There are two sides to a coin, what is harder for me might be easier for you and vice-versa.

Absolute. but i still think if you are good at handling volumes of information by sitting long hours to study, then medicine is yours to conquer if it wasn't your first line of interest but in I.T, your ability to reason (programming) which tasks the brain even more will definitely be more difficult than reading, processing information and following procedures. I have folks who studied medicine and made good grades cos of their parent pressure only to complete it and go ahead to read economics and chem engineering which was their first love and they are equally doing well except the fact that they wasted quality years pursuing a course they never really wanted due to undue parental pressure. They have vowed that their children will never go through such experience.

Dozzy 3:

Both of them are easy!, Dr. Ben Carson was a dullard when he was little, and Billy Gates dropped out of school. It all really depends on u!

I like this,

how can you compare IT with medicine? it is the greatest insult i have ever seen. medicine is one of the most difficult course on planet earth and IT is the easiest to me. what do you want to say about Bill Gate at 13 and others already programming. while i was in the university, i scored 97% in my programming course without any stress compare to courses like ODE, partial differential equation, Laplace equation, bessel funtion just to mention a few.

Which requires a longer period of study? Medicine
Which has a stricter and better regulated field? Medicine
Which has more dire consequences in the event of mistakes? Medicine
Which pays more? IT
Which is more fun and more interesting? IT  

Medicine is definitely a more difficult course than IT. If the argument is about which pays better, then I will stick to IT.
But if you are talking of relevance and requirements, Medicine is a tougher nut to crack.

I can pick up a secondary school student and transform such person into an IT guru in less than 2 years. But Medicine? There are no short cuts. You are not a medical doctor till you have gone through 7 years in Nigerian schools.

A medical doctor relies on his brain to do MOST of his work . An IT expert relies on a computer to do MOST of the work.

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What angle are you viewing it from.is it d mon ey involved or the what,express more.

Medicine is more difficult than I.T
Why?
Medical students work harder than I.T students (generally speaking)
As a doctor you study all your life and you are scrutinized in all you do
You cant afford a mistake

IT and Medicine? Medicine is like hell.

As for me o,i tink every discipline is hard or easy. Just depends on ur attitude towards it. Are u saying no other discipline is as tough as I.T. or medicine? Linguistics as a course touches many disciplines; computational linguistics,(for I.T) psycholinguistics,neorolinguistics(for Medicine),syntax(for maths) sociolinguistics(social science) e.t.c, yet dis course is a humanity course. We still have more.

SS3 topic, of course all disciplines hv their own complexity, wt matters is d person in2 it, hes weakness n stuffs lyk dt, bt den comparing IT to med,  all programmers combined cannot b compared to one doctor, well i reserve my comment. 'Igimu jina sori'

Interesting topic.

well am not into medicine, so i will not be able to say how hard it is as a whole. But as for IT many have been talking how programming can be a pain in the arss which makes IT seems harder, but let me pin point another area of IT which Artificial Intelligence System. if you know about this area then u will know how hard IT can be. with AIS, IT guys develop a state of heart system that is life dependent in hospital, military, in cars and many more. so putting all this together i would say IT is harder. an IT guy only need littler knowledge of medicine to develop life dependent hospital equipment. will medical person be able to do that as well?

depending on the way you approach it

An intellectual-adventure-seeking-student of the arts, like me, may decide to venture into IT as a back-up course, but Medicine & Surgery? I dey craze?

i can only say in terms of programming IT is harder, because at 30+ i have already started growing white beards,you think after writing a single file of perl module i.e an execution file that consists of 34,385 lines of coded instruction your life will remain the same, or the perl executable that is made up of 100,00 thousand or so of C Code, not to talk of the man hours put into it, if it fails you try again, and again, and again and so on , ,  damn stressful, you got to get results before the battery power shuts down and all that. Yes am talking from an IT perspective and you can term me biased if you like, i wouldn't know how medicine is stressful, but i think surgeons sweat it out, but to a greater extent they even rely on IT specialists when all their devices are embedded software programmed by programmers (using ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE or the C PROGRAMMING LANG) or even using industrial SCADA software, not to even mention all the space probes and life and time critical softwares that propel these shuttles. for example the canadarm (canadian arm of the international space station ISS) that remotely manipulates astronauts during space walks are all programmed by IT gurus. but wait ohh, i stated earlier about trying again, and again and again if a program fails during development. but in medicine if you fail oboy person fit die! hah! - i think the practise of medicine is very critical and not hard as programming, and also the yardstick for comparison should be clearly stated by the poster. we can't use university years to judge if one is harder than the other. Programming aspect of 'IT' is harder than medicine, while the practise of medicine itself is more critical that IT. Being critical doesn't mean hard. A programmer ages faster than a medical doctor.
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lomomike:

kai! na urban and regional planning (town planning) hard pass even for school an dem dey under go the greatest stress sef.

I THINK THE TOPIC SHOULD BE CHANGED TO U.R.P IS HARDER THAN I.T & Medicine

I've never felt/held either in my hands.

Nothing in this life that is simple or soft. every discipline is hard be i auto mechanic, tailoring or medicine

Nofin is harder than MEDICINE!
if an IT person make any mistake, he can correct witout any qualm, but any mistake by a medical practitional cost life!

we are surfering as a result of ERRORs made by our ECONOMISTS!!!

I think medicine is harder, but IT is dynamic it is constantly changing and needs serious update of one's knowledge.

programming i know say is hard but i cant say its harder coz ive got a brother just done with it and a couple friends still in it and wen bro started it he started behaving mad and my other friends still doin it say its really really hard and the only way to succeed is to really really dedicate yourself to it. sometimes i feel really inferior studying management