Which is a better path to take for a medical career?

Question

I'm Canadian, I want to become a doctor, which is a better path to take? From Highschool I go to a university in Canada and do my undergraduate (4 years) then go to med school (4 years) then residency (2-3 years) if after i could take a speciality if i want. OR From Highschool I apply to (missing undergrad) med school in say Ireland if I get accepted then I do my 4 years in med school, then come back to Canada take a med test (studying takes 1 year) then do my residency (2-3 years) and then a speciality if I wanted. Which path is better to take?

isn't competition high in Canada?

Answer 1

The first one definitely, if you want to work in Canada, get your MD in Canada. Good luck

Answer 2

The first path.

The short cut means you will have fewer classes and so learn less. Therefore you will not be as good a doctor as your piers.

The Irish shortcut also requires that you take a test which requires up to a year to study for. Few people have the study habits to be able to do that. You are more likely to get sidetracked into something else during that year. Oh sure, eventually you might be able to pass the test and get back on track, but not before wasting a lot of time.

The path to becoming a doctor is difficult and long, it is done so not to reduce the number of doctors, but because doctors need to know so much and are required to be trusted so much.

If an engineer makes a mistake then a person could die. But, that work can be checked and re-checked before being put into action. Once it is done then it can be analyzed to see if there is a fault. Improved knowledge and understanding could be used to go back and change that design.

If a doctor makes a mistake a patient could die. There is no one to double check their work, there is no way to be sure that their exact error killed the patient and you can't go back and analyze the patient years later to save his life. Once he is dead he is dead.

The engineer can take the time required to solve the problem, even if it is all week. The doctor can be limited to a few minutes or a few seconds to make a life and death decision and to take the proper action. Before I am going to let someone do that to me I want them to be as educated as possible.

The traditional path to becoming a doctor is hard for many reasons, mainly because of the importance of the job. Don't take a short cut and then make someone pay with their life for that shortcut you took. If that path was the better path and created better doctors then more people would be taking that path. It is an unusual path so it is not the tried and true; and the best path. If you want to be a foot doctor then okay, but if you want to be a surgeon or do anything that puts a life at risk I wouldn’t want the doctor who took the short cut to getting their degree.

Answer 3

You should do it the way it's done in Canada. If you go to another country, you might find yourself having spent a lot of time, effort, and money to achieve something only to have your dreams crushed/delayed.

I went through a respiratory therapy program in the US. You would think that wouldn't be a problem, but it is. When I graduated in December 2006, I had to wait until July 2007 to take the Canadian RRT exam. I needed take that exam to be employable in Ontario (where I'm from). Because I took the RRT exam in the US too, I used my American credential to get myself a job in Alberta.

I have been basically sitting around since December trying to get my career going. Don't make the mistake I made. If you want to live in Canada, go through a program in Canada. If you want to live in Ireland, go through a program there. It will save you a lot of wasted time and headaches.

In my Ontario regulatory body annual news letter, there was an announcement about a person from India who was trained as a doctor in India working part-time in Ontario as a Respiratory Therapist. I'm not bashing Canada here. Please understand that. What my point is: different provinces in territories in Canada have different degrees of acceptance of 'foreign' training. No licensing exam that I took in the US counts for anything in Ontario. Only in Alberta do they actually take my NRBC tests seriously.

My experience of trying to use my 'foreign' training to get a job in Canada, even though I'm Canadian, has been nine months so far of waiting for papers and exams. I'm frustrated and sad about how Ontario has treated me. I have a job in Alberta that I'm starting soon and I hope it works out well for me.

My big issue is that I'm a skilled person, who should be in demand in my own province, and I have to move half-way across the country to find a decent job. If I was actually allowed to work in Ontario, I would likely have a part-time job at best. My job in Alberta is permanent full-time.

Get trained where you intend on living!

Answer 4

Try St. George's in the Caribbean. They have the best program in the Caribbean and even with the time for premed prep, you will save ~3 yrs.

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Answer 6

I also will be going into medicine and I would choose the first one!