uwi medicine

[john5231]

should i do medicine (MBBS) or engineering (mechanical) or both? what are the pros and cons of both?

[maj. tom]

do both. you can be the next batman.

[john5231]

i am actually thinking about doing that lol

[kurpal_v2]

this isnt about weed is it?

[kavaninho]

what you smoking? When you enter any of those programs the idea of doing a second degree will be faint taught.

[Kenjo]

When u say surgery ? You know the degree is MBBS , you won't be finished in 5 years as a surgeon .training to be a surgeon is a next five years minimum after internship which is a next year . Medicine is not even a guarantee job after intern ship these days but compare to engineering and see what their job prospects are . Money in medicine for the amount of work is crap too, don't believe that any really rich surgeons had it easy at all.

[S_2NR]

Pros money
Cons no life

but one year in either and all this bubbly ambition you have will be gone, guaranteed.

[john5231]

rite now i think engineering > medicine

[Kewell35]

Medicine

Pros
More women.
More respect
Dealing directly with people and helping them and sheit
Guaranteed job at the end of the day. Can't say the same for Engineering.

Cons
No Life
The intensity of the work will make you a kind of weirdman towards the end. Happens to most.
Hard now to specialize.
Take longer and make less than an engineer for a longer period of time

[BoxEater]

Be a taximan op.....buy a tiida and u'l be guaranteed to get alot of women if not then school girls for sure....u'l have a fat wallet with singles and 5's so u'l be rich. wetman ftw

[fallen_angel]

buying and selling cars is the best thing to do right now

[hong kong phooey]

you can do both but does it make sense to do both?
Unless you have a pile of money and can waste an extra 4 of 5 years of schooling, then go right ahead. There are guys who done it but they did not like what they were doing. so the went back after and did medicine or engineering.

Better combinations would be medicine and then law
or engineering and then business

[25stouring]

Pretty good advice here....I did both.....For much the same reason as posted just above, but if I had to do it over I would have just done med from the start....I can't think of any career where they would be synergistic hence no reason to really do both.
Also agree with the pros and cons above.....although in recent years the guaranteed job after doin med becoming less so....and if you do want to properly specialise, be prepared to have to leave trinidad for at least 5 years

[Kewell35]

Pretty good advice here....I did both.....For much the same reason as posted just above, but if I had to do it over I would have just done med from the start....I can't think of any career where they would be synergistic hence no reason to really do both.
Also agree with the pros and cons above.....although in recent years the guaranteed job after doin med becoming less so....and if you do want to properly specialise, be prepared to have to leave trinidad for at least 5 years

why you said you woulda done med from the start?

did med and currently thinking about doing engineering myself.

[25stouring]

^^^^
For basically the same reasons u listed as pros in your earlier post.....I probably just wasn't mature enough to appreciate those considerations when I had finished a levels.....
having said that, a lot of my colleagues from Eng did go on to have successfull careers....

[hong kong phooey]

25 stouring , Are you Arnold ( nick name from uwi )
If not Arnold (nickname ) is another example of a guy who did Elec Engineering and went on to do medicine after.
He was working Fugro, many men on tuner dream job when he quit and went back to school and did medicine.

[Gem_in_i]

I know a feller who did engineering and then went Grenada and did Med. now he is doing neither of those jobs but running a business.

[25stouring]

Nah I'm not Arnold .....but he seems like someone I shud know though. .... I also did elec.....graduated a while ago....

[RBphoto]

Both good fields and completely unrelated. I would do medicine if I had the money. Mechanical and process are the two best engineering disciplines career wise. Mechanical because of the flexibility, and process to rise in the engineering ranks to plant manager. Electrical is ketch arse to get into management.

[S_2NR]

Pretty good advice here....I did both.....For much the same reason as posted just above, but if I had to do it over I would have just done med from the start....I can't think of any career where they would be synergistic hence no reason to really do both.
Also agree with the pros and cons above.....although in recent years the guaranteed job after doin med becoming less so....and if you do want to properly specialise, be prepared to have to leave trinidad for at least 5 years

why you said you woulda done med from the start?

did med and currently thinking about doing engineering myself.

Nah I'm not Arnold .....but he seems like someone I shud know though. .... I also did elec.....graduated a while ago....

How much fackin degree you have

[Victory_Specification]

Medicine is NO bed of roses. Get the monetary/ respect aspect out of your head. Telling you first hand the public likes to lay in wait for an opportunity to dis credit doctors, or an opportunity to prove you wrong in some way.

The reality is that you will work long hours from starting med school, up until you reach a consultant post (which will take YEARS). An on-call day is 16 hours long on a good day (don't even mention sleep), and you will get at least 2 of these every week.

You will look at your pay and feel you deserve more for the work/drama and frustration you have to go through for 90% of patients who will not thank you because it is your job to take care of them. You are always at risk of liability and this will forever play on your mind when you manage a patient. The studying does not end after med school - you might get away here and there but this is a profession where you are always called upon for your knowledge; either by your seniors, colleagues, patients, or in any given situation. Believe me, it hurts to not know something. This is a very hard job, you won't appreciate that until you start working. Forget what people say about it being 'about helping people', you don't need to be a doctor to help people - you do have to be one to treat disease.

If however you live for a challenge(because you will get one every day, mostly things you didn't learn in med school), you have no problem spending the rest of your life learning/reading, you have a lot of patience, losing yourself in your work is rewarding in itself, and you interact extremely well with people; then by all means you will do well in this game.

If you put learning secondary to money or ANYTHING else for that matter, forget it. Move along. CEO's of most national/multinational companies make at least 3 times more than doctors do in their lifetimes, and have more perks than we will ever get. Yes, there are poor doctors out there. Don't get swayed by the 'you will always have a job' malarkey either. I know multiple doctors that finished their internship in July last year that still don't have a job. It's going to be like that for a while (thanks GATE).

You probably want to know why I got into it/continue to stay in it. Very plainly: you will *never find a more interesting profession to pursue. For all the dramas you go through on a daily, there is an extreme satisfaction in knowing/applying the knowledge you work so hard to amass during your career. It's very similar to learning a new language, one where new words are added every hour of every day.

Don't be one of those morons who say 'Well ah get all A's, might as well do med'. You will regret it. Don't be fooled, other docs pick up on this very quickly.

But hey, don't take my word for it

[Kewell35]

Medicine is NO bed of roses. Get the monetary/ respect aspect out of your head. Telling you first hand the public likes to lay in wait for an opportunity to dis credit doctors, or an opportunity to prove you wrong in some way.

The reality is that you will work long hours from starting med school, up until you reach a consultant post (which will take YEARS). An on-call day is 16 hours long on a good day (don't even mention sleep), and you will get at least 2 of these every week.

You will look at your pay and feel you deserve more for the work/drama and frustration you have to go through for 90% of patients who will not thank you because it is your job to take care of them. You are always at risk of liability and this will forever play on your mind when you manage a patient. The studying does not end after med school - you might get away here and there but this is a profession where you are always called upon for your knowledge; either by your seniors, colleagues, patients, or in any given situation. Believe me, it hurts to not know something. This is a very hard job, you won't appreciate that until you start working. Forget what people say about it being 'about helping people', you don't need to be a doctor to help people - you do have to be one to treat disease.

If however you live for a challenge(because you will get one every day, mostly things you didn't learn in med school), you have no problem spending the rest of your life learning/reading, you have a lot of patience, losing yourself in your work is rewarding in itself, and you interact extremely well with people; then by all means you will do well in this game.

If you put learning secondary to money or ANYTHING else for that matter, forget it. Move along. CEO's of most national/multinational companies make at least 3 times more than doctors do in their lifetimes, and have more perks than we will ever get. Yes, there are poor doctors out there. Don't get swayed by the 'you will always have a job' malarkey either. I know multiple doctors that finished their internship in July last year that still don't have a job. It's going to be like that for a while (thanks GATE).

You probably want to know why I got into it/continue to stay in it. Very plainly: you will *never find a more interesting profession to pursue. For all the dramas you go through on a daily, there is an extreme satisfaction in knowing/applying the knowledge you work so hard to amass during your career. It's very similar to learning a new language, one where new words are added every hour of every day.

Don't be one of those morons who say 'Well ah get all A's, might as well do med'. You will regret it. Don't be fooled, other docs pick up on this very quickly.

But hey, don't take my word for it

Excellent post.

[john5231]

well i am currently doing the mechanical engineering degree.....i am very happy with what i am learning although most of my learning is done my myself by reading books

[Miktay]

The medical cartel iz mo powerful than the engineering cartel.

[cherrypopper]

Drug cartel >medical>engineering. .

[bluespeed]

Hmm...imagine men have to come on tuner and ask what he should do for his future... it's sad after all that schooling and you can't think independently..

[DVSTT]

Pros money
Cons no life

but one year in either and all this bubbly ambition you have will be gone, guaranteed.

Yes

[pj15]

Anybody knows any of the 150 doctors who are/were unable to gain employment in the public health sector? What are they doing now? What non-clinical options exist in T&T for medical graduates??

[cherrypopper]

Well they better think fast too much doctors remaining at the house officer level. . No space ..vacancy for registrar and consultant etc but you have to spend money to go England etc to qualify. ..

[De Dragon]

Anybody knows any of the 150 doctors who are/were unable to gain employment in the public health sector? What are they doing now? What non-clinical options exist in T&T for medical graduates??

Well there is a hospital to be opened in Couva, maybe they will have luck there.