BSN to D.O. or M.D.

[buffscotty]

Is there a high success rate of those wanting to achieve their M.D. or D.O. after recieving their BSN? I am just looking at options and seeing what they all are. Has anyone on here taken this path? I would think being an R.N. would help very much in Medical School as well as in practice.

[SU Redhawk]

I here you. While I'm still a nursing student, I too am considering becoming and MD in the future. I did not intend using a BSN as a stepping stone to becoming and MD, it just happen to turn out that way due to my experiences during my learning process. While I cannot give you a definite answer to your question, I would assume having been a nurse, you would have a huge leg up on other med students in medschool.

[MikeyJ, RN]

I think a lot of people are torn between nursing and medicine -- but they are two totally different fields.

I, too, am strongly considering pursuing medicine after I graduate with my BSN in a few months. I am not using my BSN as a "stepping stone", but I have come to find out that nursing is not necessarily what I expected.

If I choose to pursue medicine, I will do the pre-req's slowly to get some of my student loans paid off. I have figured it out I would finish medical school at the age of 32, and thus would finish my residency between the age of 35 and 38 (depending on what I went for). I would still have the ability to practice medicine for 25 years.

There is a 2nd year pediatric resident on the floor I work on that went to medical school much later in life. She started out as an RN and then became a NICU NP. She will finish her residency in a few years and will be early 50's I think. I've talked to her a bit here and there and she told me that if I had any thoughts in my mind about pursuing medicine to just do it. She regrets not pursuing it earlier but throughout her entire career as a nurse she always wondered "what if I had pursued medicine?".. so finally one day she decided to.

And although her nursing studies did not necessarily help her in medical school, she said doing the clinical portion was much easier on her because she had the background working with patients... while many 3rd year medical students struggle with becoming comfortable in the hospital environment.

[djc1981]

My best friend's father is a MD and he says the profession is slipping and not at all what it used to be. Reimbursements are way down and salaries are slipping, while the work hours are multiplying and malpractice insurance is skyrocketing. He is pleading with me to go to CRNA school -- he said he would do the same if he could do it again. He works with CRNAS that make right at 200K -- 20k more than him!

[dfk, RN, CRNA]

My best friend's father is a MD and he says the profession is slipping and not at all what it used to be. Reimbursements are way down and salaries are slipping, while the work hours are multiplying and malpractice insurance is skyrocketing. He is pleading with me to go to CRNA school -- he said he would do the same if he could do it again. He works with CRNAS that make right at 200K -- 20k more than him!

i'm graduating in 114 days.

do it.

well worth it, not even about the money.

shadow first, school later.

i thought MD, but after all the experience and

shite i've seen with residents and med students,

fuggeddaboudit...

medicine is a lost art in some sense, and will be lost even further.

it's too bad.

you learn more in med school/residency than any other profession

with respect to medicine and well-being of the individual.

with that, don't regret anything you do...!