Should you study medicine?
Whether medicine is a good choice, its rewards and costs, regrets.
Axis: a rewarding career worth choosing … a long path to choose only with care
Answers by date: 7 records in 6 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2018), never reversed, in these records.
| date | who | answer | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-29 | Ali | Medicine is much harder than A-level sciences only in the volume of content, Ali says: A-level science is just as conceptually difficult. | Live Stream - Hangout 00:17:13 |
| 2018-05-29 | Ali | Ali is glad he chose medicine, which he finds really fun, and says a medic with skills in other domains, such as coding, is automatically in a different league from a plain coder or a standard medic. | Live Stream - Hangout 00:16:42 |
| 2018-05-07 | Ali | Ali says six years of medical school are worth it even if you do not become a doctor: they are fun, and most degrees are not that useful for the jobs people do. | Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student 00:48:13 |
| 2018-05-02 | Ali | Ali says medicine is not conceptually hard, only a lot of content that you memorise with spaced repetition and active recall; maths or engineering are arguably harder, so medics should drop the "medicine is so hard" narrative. | Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students 00:14:05 |
| 2018-05-01 | Ali | On people who choose medicine only to make a lot of money, Ali says you can do that in America but not really in the UK. | First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A 00:09:35 |
| 2018-03-21 | Ali | Ali advises applying for medicine even with doubts: it is unfair to expect someone of 16 or 17 to know they want to be a doctor for 50 years, and liking the idea of the degree is reason enough. | Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! 00:01:03 |
| 2017-11-08 | Ali | Ali says the reason to do medicine is not a sudden emotional moment but having thought it through: some 50 years of academic study and long hours, in return for genuinely making a difference in people's lives. | Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience 00:16:43 |