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Jackanda1:
After trying medicine 3 times. I had to settle for a science course. I'm currently done with my first degree, NYSC and doing a little job by the side.

The thing is, i want to go back to medical school. I have a burning desire to study medicine, i dream about it everyday and would be rather unfulfilled if i don't study medicine.

The questions i have are:

1. I intend to start my study in my late 20s. Hopefully 28,29,or at 30years old.

2. What are the disadvantages of studying medicine and graduating in my late 30s.?


3. How is employment at that age?


What are the difficulties i should expect?

Be brutally honest. Thanks

cc: Lagusta bcomputer101

I dont have the 💯 accurate answers to your questions but one thing i know is, whether or not you study medicine at 29, 6 years will pass... How you make use of the 6 years matters, either to pursue your dream or make yourself better.
If otherwise, you know the rest.

lampido22:
this one is talking about 29 while I entered nursing at 34 now I'm in final year

I smell someone trying to use the nursing route to japa

Maxitomxane:
I smell someone trying to use the nursing route to japa

How easy is it to japa with a nursing degree?

Jackanda1:
How easy is it to japa with a nursing degree?

Pass the necessary international exams💯.
You are good to go.

Maxitomxane:
I smell someone trying to use the nursing route to japa

Dey there na dey play

[quote author=Maxitomxane post=127670620]Pass the necessary international exams

Jackanda1:
Are you into cripto? Show me way bro

I'm not oh. I delved into IT, DevOps to be precise

Go and make a living with your current degree. Time is wasting.
If you didn't make it through medical school once, you probably won't make it on the 9th try.
There are a great number of university graduates who attempted medicine.
The lucky ones leave school with a degree.
I know loads who left with nothing. Why?
I must do medicine.
Understand that the knowledge you have gained from medicine will stay with you. It wasn't a waste.
Move on.

Jackanda1:
After trying medicine 3 times. I had to settle for a science course. I'm currently done with my first degree, NYSC and doing a little job by the side.

The thing is, i want to go back to medical school. I have a burning desire to study medicine, i dream about it everyday and would be rather unfulfilled if i don't study medicine.

The questions i have are:

1. I intend to start my study in my late 20s. Hopefully 28,29,or at 30years old.

2. What are the disadvantages of studying medicine and graduating in my late 30s.?


3. How is employment at that age?


What are the difficulties i should expect?

Be brutally honest. Thanks

cc: Lagusta bcomputer101

Follow your dream. No age is too much to achieve your dream as long as you have the mental strength to withstand the pressure.

If it's science course you studied in your first degree, they can consider you for direct entry in 200L.

Antoeni:
Why Not go into Orthodox Medicine (Native Doctor)

be serious na

Jackanda1:
After trying medicine 3 times. I had to settle for a science course. I'm currently done with my first degree, NYSC and doing a little job by the side.

The thing is, i want to go back to medical school. I have a burning desire to study medicine, i dream about it everyday and would be rather unfulfilled if i don't study medicine.

The questions i have are:

1. I intend to start my study in my late 20s. Hopefully 28,29,or at 30years old.

2. What are the disadvantages of studying medicine and graduating in my late 30s.?


3. How is employment at that age?


What are the difficulties i should expect?

Be brutally honest. Thanks

cc: Lagusta bcomputer101

Pls go ahead with your heart desire to medicine.

My childhood friend was once in your shoes.
Wanted to study medicine in unilag, got zoology. Came out with first class. Uni wanted to retain him as junior lecturer but he said he wanted to pursue medicine. They gave him the opportunity to study medicine and now he is through today.

That guy is hot cake now.

CSTRR:
Medical school anywhere is not for the weak.

Infact, it should be easier in Nigeria given the fact that you are not exposed to the best of technologies and fields and so the range for testing your knowledge is restricted to how much of your basic textbooks you can cram.

Study medicine in Germany or the United states, and na your body go tell you.

Exposing us to technology would have made it more easier.

If u have the strength and energy to pursue medicine as a career in the university pls go for it.... Considering the fact that you have already gotten your first degree.

I have a friend who just recently got admitted to study medicine while his mate have graduated from the course he was studying before dropping out due to lack of interest.

It is good to identify your passion early in life.

I wrote jamb 9th times though to study medicine but I didn't get it.. I latter discovered that it wasn't my passion so I lossed interest.

I latter settled for engineering and technology and my passion lies here. Learning one or two skills related to my course of study as been helpful


Choose school that would be easier to get in, u know the competitive nature of getting admission in that faculty??


All the best.

Jackanda1:
After trying medicine 3 times. I had to settle for a science course. I'm currently done with my first degree, NYSC and doing a little job by the side.

The thing is, i want to go back to medical school. I have a burning desire to study medicine, i dream about it everyday and would be rather unfulfilled if i don't study medicine.

The questions i have are:

1. I intend to start my study in my late 20s. Hopefully 28,29,or at 30years old.

2. What are the disadvantages of studying medicine and graduating in my late 30s.?


3. How is employment at that age?


What are the difficulties i should expect?

Be brutally honest. Thanks

cc: Lagusta bcomputer101

Thanks for the mention.

After 10yrs of being a doctor, I have just a few words for you...

1) follow what drives your passion

2) medical school is NO JOKE!!!

3) get ready for a rollercoaster of regrets, heartaches, and tears, mixed with a life full of contentment, fulfillment and the passion to save more lives

4) I hope you're not going in for the money 🤣🤣 walllahi there is no money in medicine, especially in this nonsense country

5) you have to read, and not just to read and pass but to read and understand.

6) medicine is not just a science, but an art, and an apprenticeship... You learn new things even when you graduate

7) pray

pray again

9) never ever read in a silo... Join discussion groups once you get in, don't make that mistake of being a lone ranger

10) Las Las è go be 👍🏿👍🏿

Wishing you good luck 🤞🏿

Lagusta:
Thanks for the mention.

After 10yrs of being a doctor, I have just a few words for you...

1) follow what drives your passion

2) medical school is NO JOKE!!!

3) get ready for a rollercoaster of regrets, heartaches, and tears, mixed with a life full of contentment, fulfillment.

WOW, 10years is a long time. Thanks for your input.

Jackanda1:
After trying medicine 3 times. I had to settle for a science course. I'm currently done with my first degree, NYSC and doing a little job by the side.

The thing is, i want to go back to medical school. I have a burning desire to study medicine, i dream about it everyday and would be rather unfulfilled if i don't study medicine.

The questions i have are:

1. I intend to start my study in my late 20s. Hopefully 28,29,or at 30years old.

2. What are the disadvantages of studying medicine and graduating in my late 30s.?


3. How is employment at that age?


What are the difficulties i should expect?

Be brutally honest. Thanks

cc: Lagusta bcomputer101

Dr. dontrulee please your comment would be highly appreciated on this thread. Thanks

Jackanda1:
Dr. dontrulee please your comment would be highly appreciated on this thread. Thanks

Since you specifically requested for my opinion, I'll give it to you from my own point of view. Medicine in Nigeria is deplorable, stressful and not worth it at all. Doctors are complaining, doctors are broke and many are Japa-ing. If I should choose all over again, I won't choose Medicine. Medicine will take your time from you if you're not careful.

At 29, you can choose to study Medicine if you wish but I'll advise that you have a skill alongside with it because the salary of doctors is just barely enough for you to survive. Some centres have toxic senior colleagues that you'll be lamenting why you're in the medical profession.

I currently have an house officer who is 37years old and she older than me but I'm her senior colleague. There is hierarchy in Medicine and some senior colleagues abuse such privileges.

Asides that Medicine is a cool profession and a Nobel one at that.

Navigating through medical school can be stressful though, it not about being brilliant but about how smart and intelligent you're. I hardly read when I was in Medical school, infact I did a whole lot of other things outside of Medicine and I was always on my phone 24/7 yet I never failed any course. It's about knowing and applying yourself.

To answer your questions specifically, there are no disadvantages graduating in your late 30s.

It doesn't affect your employment, infact as a doctor, you can hardly get out of job, there's always vacancy. Always because of the mass Exodus of Doctors. So you'll definitely get a job and a good salary especially if you have surgical skills as an advantage.

The difficulties are more of individualized though. Some find it relatively easier and some find it extremely difficulty but definitely challenges will be there

dontrulee:
To answer your questions specifically, there are no disadvantages graduating in your late 30s.

It doesn't affect your employment, infact as a doctor, you can hardly get out of job, there's always vacancy. Always because of the mass Exodus of Doctors. So you'll definitely get a job and a good salary especially if you have surgical skills as an advantage.

The difficulties are more of individualized though. Some find it relatively easier and some find it extremely difficulty but definitely challenges will be there

Thanks.

Am currently 29, I have tried UTME 5 times into medicine but to no avail. My first UTME got me Botany in UNIBEN and today am a Botanist.

I only decided on 16th of December last year 2023 to resit UTME... So, as I speak now am preparing for the 2024 UTME.... 08058211160 WhatsApp me

1. You may still be a dependent
2. Probably marriage takes a pause
3. Probably peer pressure
4. You may feel older than your classmates
But after all this if you desire medicine and love the profession no disadvantage will stop you. My advice is to enjoy all moments

StemCellTherapi:
I'm also a Graduate having bagged a B.Sc in Social Science course in 2016 yet my spirit keeps disturbing to go back and study Nursing

The Nursing thing has been coming to me the year after graduation but I kept on suppressing it.

Right now, I don't rest everyday.

And see life, I graduated school and as the universe will have, I became a Natural Medicine Practitioner (Naturopath).

How I found myself administering Natural Medicine to people is what I can't explain till date.

I've never worked in an office environment for one day. If I apply, I don't get in and if I get in, I get disturbed to leave. And I will eventually leave. I don't just fit in. It always seem as if I'm in the wrong place. I once got an office job were I left after just 2 days

I once over head my mum telling my brothers that she thinks I have a spiritual problem

It seems the Universe is really on my neck

Also aspiring to become a naturopath like you. Can we talk?

Don't go back and study medicine. You should understand one thing, your passion isn't medicine but to cure people's illnesses, you don't need to study medicine to do that. You can STUDY Naturopathic Medicine and still do what you want to become. Secondly, you don't need to become a doctor to make money. Think outside the box, what do you want to become actually? A neurosurgeon, oncologist, cardiologist etc. What do you want to do? Cure Cancer, Cure AHDH, Cure HIV/AIDS, etc. When you know your bearing, you would realized that medicine is not necessary. And lastly, you need to think of your financial status in 6 years tim

You have 2 options: 1. Get your masters and professional qualification/certification, gain experience and make minimum of 600,000 or 2. Study Medicine and in 6 years time, you earn 100,000 naira as a starting salary.
The choice Is yours

Jackanda1:
After trying medicine 3 times. I had to settle for a science course. I'm currently done with my first degree, NYSC and doing a little job by the side.

The thing is, i want to go back to medical school. I have a burning desire to study medicine, i dream about it everyday and would be rather unfulfilled if i don't study medicine.

The questions i have are:

1. I intend to start my study in my late 20s. Hopefully 28,29,or at 30years old.

2. What are the disadvantages of studying medicine and graduating in my late 30s.?


3. How is employment at that age?


What are the difficulties i should expect?

Be brutally honest. Thanks

cc: Lagusta bcomputer101

Omowale2023:
Don't go back and study medicine. You should understand one thing, your passion isn't medicine but to cure people's illnesses, you don't need to study medicine to do that. You can STUDY Naturopathic Medicine and still do what you want to become. Secondly, you don't need to become a doctor to make money. Think outside the box, what do you want to become actually? A neurosurgeon, oncologist, cardiologist etc. What do you want to do? Cure Cancer, Cure AHDH, Cure HIV/AIDS, etc. When you know your bearing, you would realized that medicine is not necessary. And lastly, you need to think of your financial status in 6 years tim

You have 2 options: 1. Get your masters and professional qualification/certification, gain experience and make minimum of 600,000 or 2. Study Medicine and in 6 years time, you earn 100,000 naira as a starting salary.
The choice Is yours

How do you know this. Are you a doctor?

Jackanda1:
How do you know this. Are you a doctor?

Should I be?