What do you hope to gain from shadowing?
It will give you a glimpse of the nature of a physician’s typical day, and help you become familiar with different medical and research settings. Additionally, it will give you the chance to discuss your applications and interviews for medical school, and gain personal insight into doctors’ lives outside of work.
Is it hard to get into NUS medicine?
NUS Medicine admission rate Assuming you do get to the interview stages, the chances of admission (from past years and opinions of medical students), is about 1 in 3.
What is the acceptance rate for NUS?
7%
How smart do I have to be to be a doctor?
You have to be smart for sure, probably with an IQ of 125, but equally important is that you need incredible discipline to study. You must be able to spend hours memorizing things and mastering subjects that may seem boring, exasperating, and irrelevant to you.
Is it too late to be a doctor at 30?
At your age of 29, it is not too late to become a doctor. You can and should become a doctor, if and only if you like the medical profession and love serving medical patients. Medical Doctor profession is a rewarding and fulfilling profession.
Is 27 too late for medical school?
27 is not old in the slightest. Most students will be like 2-3 years younger than you at most. I think you’ll find out that you will never really “feel” that different. You will still be yourself.