Because I need to in order to become a doctor.

I have a great memory and very poor social skills.

>>2625282
>>2625277
REJECTED

are there any good applicants to this university?

I want to prescribe myself oxycodone. Also to be rich.

Wait, they interview you before you apply? (obvious non-american here). Wtf is that for?

I watched House and he reminds me of myself so much XD

>>2625318
No you apply then they interview you, due to your application making them aware that you want an interview.

they itnerview u to make sure ur not some type of queer faggot as most premeds are

>>2625318

They can't just train anyone to become doctors because it costs too much. A cabal of doctors called the AMA tells Congress how much federal assistance to give to medical schools. The funding has been kept pretty low for the past few decades.

>>2625327
Somehow I don't think House would use faggot acronyms like "XD".

Because I can't rely on God to heal the sick and injured.

Because chicks love money and I want this job to acquire a trophy wife.

I have always felt inclined to helping out others in need. I come from a moderately large family and have many siblings, and I having been raised alongside them, and being very close to them, caring for other has always been a core element to what I like to do. I feel comfortable in situations where I am responsible for others, their health and safety, and their care. I am also very active and social and enjoy helping out my community. I want to go into medicine because I feel like I would be able to apply myself fully to these kinds of commitments.

I want 300K starting

Why does the head interviewer have his top button done up without a tie? Some might argue that he's trying to be trendy but he just looks like he forgot to put on his tie. I'd tell him I'm reconsidering medicine if he can't even put on a fucking tie in the morning.

>>2625337

Why would you even want an interview? Is it mandatory/does it influences your chances of getting accepted to college?

>>2625351

I also didn't think House would turn into a faggy soap opera, but it did.

>>2625315
You won't be rich. You'll be knee deep in debt, if you want to make the same amount of money as a doctor why not just go work with UPS? Become a delivery man, and badaboo badabang you'll make even more then a doctor.

Seriously, if you enter the field for medicine it better be for a god damn good reason, or you're just wasting your time.

>>2625249
Because I want to steal money from dying people
Can I have the job now?

>>2625367
People don't want an interview, that's the point. It's another hurdle. You can be a complete social retard but get perfect grades (that's hardly a surprise on this board) but the interview lets them see past your grades and your prepared shpeel about why you want to be a doctor and actually see how you think on your feet.
Still, that considered people know the kind of questions they're going to be asked and inevitably prepare for them as well, just like for any other interview.

>>2625367
Are you special?
Most medical schools in this country look at your application with your grades, personal statement, references and work experience. But they have no idea what you are like as a person so they need to interview you in case you are a psychopath. On average, medical schools get 2000 applications, 700 of these are interviewed and only 300 or so of these get places at that medical school.

>>2625367
No interview=you don't go to med school.

I want to see the looks on people's faces when I tell them they have cancer

>>2625383

Whoa, whoa. One in seven applicants get accepted? I thought it was more like one in 100. 1:6 isn't too bad.

I'm smart, it's interesting, good money, job security.

>>2625397
Going straight from high school into medicine at university has these odds. When you are a doctor and applying for certain jobs the odds can exceed 1:1000

>>2625383

As I said, I'm not american, concept of interviewing college applicants is totally alien to me. (eurofag here).

Basically, to get into any college here you just need relatively good grades and do well in entry exam.
If you are good enough, you are accepted, no interview or other bullshit.

>>2625430
I am also a eurofag. So I imagine, as the colleges just go by what you are like on paper, you get some utter dickwads becoming doctors?

>>2625430

The problem is that medicine is a very high-stress field and someone who does well in school could still be the type to panic or flake out in crucial situations. If Europeans don't filter out their medical students like that, they're begging for trouble.

because my dad is a doctor and i smoked too much weed during and after my adolescence to have come up with something original.

also, i like wearing uniforms (eurofag here)

>>2625359
>because I want to help people

>Interviewer's face when your answer
How about nooooooooo.jpg

>>2625436

The dickwads go into surgery. It's the only place for them.

>>2625448

>>2625436

Well, not many people here want to become doctors because of time&money invested / reward ratio.
If you can grind through 6 years of eduction plus 4 years specialization you are good enough, even if you are arrogant asshole towards everybody.

Because I find the human machine to be the most fascinating construct I've yet to encounter and I'd like to study it further. Job and money now please?

same reason you chose to be in this fucken committee. to judge other people and decide over their lifes

to play the md card in bars

>>2625445

You've clearly never actually applied to medical school.
Thousands of people apply -only hundreds of people are accepted. And guess what -all of them have 4.0 GPA averages and graduated at "the top of their class". They're all in the top of their class, per say, and you have so many overacheiving candidates that grades barely matter. You're still competing with thousands of other perfect grades. So what distinguishes you at this point of the game is your personality, your motives, and how eager you are. Med school looks for the most active -not necessarily extroverted- but active, and confident applicants. They look for people who push the envelope with their other-people skills and people who care. They look for those people who volunteer not just at a hospital for the hours, but who actively work to better their community. Timbit soccer or hockey coaches, community leaders, that sort of shit can go a long way.

I always wanted to cut people open and take their insides out. Even as a child, i dreamt of all the blood and bowels. I'm good at it too. You don't have to believe me. I brought the proof. See?

I think interviews for med school are a fucking great idea. In high stress environments you need mentally strong people, workhorses that don't need perfect conditions in order to get something fucking done. Fear, doubt, other negative emotions are all contagious and can destabilize a banded group of people, you can't have that when lives are at risk.

Anyway I thought this thread was ironic, I came home after an hour of work because everybody in the fucking lab was pissy and I can just work from home instead of putting up with their candy-ass bullshit.

Plus too I need to mentally prepare for having to TA premed undergrads

>>2625487
>Timbit soccer or hockey coaches
>Timbit

ha, Canadafag.

>>2625495

I can't hear you over my free healthcare.
Problem, Amerofag?

>>2625505

Try again buddy.

Anyway, why do WE Canadians always seem to beat our chests about our health care system. You know it's not that good compared to other first world nations. All those stories of people calling 911 from the emergency room because they were waiting for like 36 hours and people dying because of lack of attention at triage made me sick.

If someone I loved died in the hospital because they were forgotten, I would kill any male children and rape the female children of that doctor.

>>2625519
Sorry can't hear you over our superior British free health care system.
Problem Commonwealthfags?

>>2625533

Enjoy it for now till Cameron takes it away in his "austerity package", isn't your country bankrupt because you thought the Americans were God's gift to the world?

>>2625519

Who exactly would you blame?

>>2625537
Cameron wants the NHS to become more like the American system where doctors compete for patients.
>implying we like Americans.

>>2625519

I knew you weren't a Eurofag because the chances are you wouldn't have heard of what a timbit is.

Left me either Canada or US of A.
Anyways, I'm not a doctor but I do work in a hospital. Sometimes the wait times are quite long in my department, thanks to overbooking, but that's what it costs for everyone to get the attention they need. Triage could probably do better in the emergency dept. but I have no idea since I'm rarely there.

As for the quality of our healthcare system, Canada is ranked pretty damn high in efficiency, coverage, financial budgeting and comfort. The average citizen pays roughly 3.5k/year in government taxmoney allocated to healthcare... compare that with 8.5k from USA.
And in terms of healthcare efficiency we rank 30th according to the WHO.
Which could be a lot better, no doubt, but I only beat my chest about our healthcare system to Amerofags.. so...

17 Netherlands

That's right faggots, 17th on the list.

>>2625555

Yeah...constantly comparing us to the states only masks the problem. That's like saying your failing out of school child isn't so bad because they're not mentally retarded like their cousin.

For example, I'd like to have dental and eye care coverage, but apparently our health care is soooooo good and free we just won't do that.

>>2625345
What if someone's willing to pay their own way without assistance?

>>2625555

dude, your own politicians come to america for any serious procedure but you think you have a better health system? better at giving handouts to worthless refugees, maybe.

>>2625620

Hey I wish canada was more liberal and socialist than it is but I am but a humble /sci/entist, with no control in regards to our fiscal spending and budgeting

>>2625635

HAHAHAHAHAHA. keep dreaming.

>>2625629
they take solidarity to a new level by leaving their taxes entirely to the service of others

#1 healthcare country reprting in (France)
>mfw I didn't even know those problems could exist except in subsaharan africa and middle east
>mfw I don't have a face.