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Old 22-10-2024, 09:00 PM
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I am a IM subspec and I don’t recommend juniors pursue medicine if they are only concerned about the potential income like the OP. It’s a tough course to study and financial rewards are not gonna sustain you through the 5 years of MBBS and horsemanship
Nono u got me very wrong. I agree that law may be slightly better than Medicine money wise but I am way more interested in Medicine. I have read medical textbooks before and also really enjoy the work from my shadowing experiences. It is just that I also want to maximise career income

Nothing wrong to try to do both what. Any advice that you can give me to be an excellent doctor?

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Old 23-10-2024, 12:57 AM
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Nono u got me very wrong. I agree that law may be slightly better than Medicine money wise but I am way more interested in Medicine. I have read medical textbooks before and also really enjoy the work from my shadowing experiences. It is just that I also want to maximise career income

Nothing wrong to try to do both what. Any advice that you can give me to be an excellent doctor?
"Excellent doctor" is not correlated well to how much money you make.
"Excellent doctor" is also in the eye of the beholder. Is the from the patient's view? Or your colleagues view?

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"Excellent doctor" is not correlated well to how much money you make.
"Excellent doctor" is also in the eye of the beholder. Is the from the patient's view? Or your colleagues view?
100% this. Smartest guy from my class is ironically earning the less while the dumbest guy is making millions. One is a clinician scientist at A*, while the other is a rich scion with 8 aesthetic clinics

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Old 23-10-2024, 05:55 AM
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im doc myself.
i know lawyers are smarter so cannot compare

doc is slow plough. lawyer is huat immediately

TLDR go lawyer forum. dont come to low ses doc forum
Please put your hands together for this chap!!!
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Nono u got me very wrong. I agree that law may be slightly better than Medicine money wise but I am way more interested in Medicine. I have read medical textbooks before and also really enjoy the work from my shadowing experiences. It is just that I also want to maximise career income

Nothing wrong to try to do both what. Any advice that you can give me to be an excellent doctor?
Are you a practising GP and lawyer? I was under the impression that we cannot practise both simultaneously.
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Yea thats what I was thinking but if I return now then itll sort of start the clock on my freg. So lets say I work 2 years as AC then HMDP then consultant, by 37 I would be a full cons and likely have f reg having worked 3 years. Also if get HMDP then I would get paid my full salary while on fellowship correct? Cos if I do fellowship without HMDP pay wont be as good. I can return to SG buy house now alr good timing mah. Any thoughts?
I am in ophth and i know you are trolling from some of the things that you have wrote. anyone in ophth will know, so i am not going to mention it out loud.
as for the property market in sg, i hearsay it is at all time high and probably not a good timing. what makes you think it is a good timing?
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It’s not that easy to get a specialist training position either. Psychiatry and Family Medicine used to be throwaway training programmes during my time, both in the UK and Singapore, but they have became competitive now. The odds of you being a specialist is very low, unless you have to patience to keep applying every MOPEX cycle, especially so if you are applying to even more competitive specialities like ENT/Ortho etc

A law degree from Oxford is versatile. You can choose to practise as a lawyer in Singapore or in the UK. You can even choose to leverage your law degree to a management consulting/banking job in Singapore. ROI wise it is definitely higher considering a law degree only cost 200k while a med degree overseas can cost upwards of 600k
do we have any statistics on the competition ratio and how many cycles candidates apply to before they get an offer/ accept an offer?
wanting to know how long i will have to wait before i can enter residency. is there a cut off age to enter residency?
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do we have any statistics on the competition ratio and how many cycles candidates apply to before they get an offer/ accept an offer?
wanting to know how long i will have to wait before i can enter residency. is there a cut off age to enter residency?
The statistics would be quite different for different specialities.And no one can comment as the people selecting you have different criteria across the various residency programmes.

There is no guarantee on residency entry unless you have ' connections ' but I wouldnt know about this.

No cut off age but less chance of getting selected as you get older.
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Nono u got me very wrong. I agree that law may be slightly better than Medicine money wise but I am way more interested in Medicine. I have read medical textbooks before and also really enjoy the work from my shadowing experiences. It is just that I also want to maximise career income

Nothing wrong to try to do both what. Any advice that you can give me to be an excellent doctor?
You must be quite young to ask this question.

No experienced physician would ask this excellent doctor question!
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The statistics would be quite different for different specialities.And no one can comment as the people selecting you have different criteria across the various residency programmes.

There is no guarantee on residency entry unless you have ' connections ' but I wouldnt know about this.

No cut off age but less chance of getting selected as you get older.
Any idea why less chance of getting selected as you get older? One would imagine you should get more experienced as you age due to more mopex experience in the relevant speciality? (Esp for procedural specialities like surgery, wouldn't it be better to take in an experienced/older mo?)
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