Re: Do nurses have an advantage in becoming a doctor? Originally Posted by beachbutterfly 
I agree with this poster so much!!!!
Anything medical will be beneficial to becoming a doctor of medicine.You will experience what it is like be on the opposite site.You will be fluent in medical terminology,be ahead of technical skills and wont look dumb and chase nurses around asking zillion questions about the procedures when you first start off working as a res.
With that said nursing shool is not a rocket since but still can definitely kick you in a a..and requires hard ad dedicated work to achieve the title of the RN behind your name...We do have a fair share of knowledge about chem,bio,math,and anatomy and of course patho.Dont forger that that people skills are very important in any medical field!!!
Anyway you still didnt tell us what is your decision?
My decision......wow....
I guess I didn't think it would be demanded of me!
Well, just to give some background, I'm 20 years old, I have 50 college credit hours under my belt, and I am an EMT-Basic currently enrolled in a Paramedic course. I've grown up around medicine (father was a DVM), and my experience in emergency medicine has really spiked my interest, leading me to consider becoming a RN with the possibility of studying medicine further down the road.
I don't want to say that I'm making a concrete decision to become a doctor based on one forum thread. Nevertheless, the advice I have gotten from you all has pointed me in one definite direction. Based on your comments, I have concluded that, if I want to become a doctor, it's best to make a concentrated effort for that goal, rather than becoming a nurse first. As one poster pointed out, MCAT scores for Health Sciences majors are among the lowest, and as several noted, spots on nursing school waiting lists are limited.
My only hesitation is that my previous area of study was in the humanities, and although I've always excelled academically, math and science has admittedly been my weak spot. So now, I turn my inquisitions towards determining whether I could survive college calculus, chemistry, physics, and biology.
Thank you all for your help. I've always been a big fan of nurses since I was in the hospital as a kid with a collapsed lung. The nurses were great. And I don't even remember seeing a doctor.......
Re: Do nurses have an advantage in becoming a doctor?
). Having certain privilages as a nurse while having other privilages as a doc may be overlapped and could cause the hospital a lot of trouble if you "accidently" forget what role you are playing that day. In the end does being a nurse make it impossible to go to medical school, nope not in the least and I am sure in some areas you may have a bit of a head start but why put yourself through 2-4 more years of extra school. Just my humble opinion.
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