cindyq

did you get your answer. if not mssg me

Hey I applied to the San Diego location would you mind telling me how your interview went and what your prompts were about? I would appreciate it.

Yes, I volunteered for ten years and I shadowed two different pediatric doctors. I loved working with them and working with sick people. I speak with my own doctors and get their input. I think my problem is the island that I am on and the faculty here and how unhelpful they are...I can' t take a break now I just got to the island and just started medical school. I think it's the school and the island that gets to me...

I know that there is no way of getting around it I just figured if I go back to the states maybe I would not have as much trouble with it as I am having now... It's not that I do not want to take the class its that I want help in the class and the prof is not student friendly... Like I have stated I am just stuck between a rock and a hard spot. I really appreciate all the feed back I am getting it is really helping me make my choice on what needs to be done. But I have not made a 100% choice yet. Still thinking

I spent over $4,000 trying to get in and two years and never got in. I am here now and I do not know what to do. I mean it is not like I did not try the US I did I was never accepted though. That is the only reason I am here in the caribbean, and I am trying to decide whether to stay and tough it out even though I hate it or go back home and apply for nursing to become an NP or DNP. That is where I need advice.

Well I figured as much but as I said right now I am in medical school and I have heard different things about nursing school and becoming an NP or DNP which is why I am stuck on whether to change my path now and leave medical school and go to nursing and pursue that way or to just attempt to stick it out and see how I feel at the end of the first semester... I am just so confused and I have never been this confused before...

I thank you for your advice, and I am taking the steps to try and learn the subject. It is just that I have never been so sad in my entire life. Here with their teaching style and the way faculty treat you it makes me regret this decision. I know that I am not a dumb person I just feel dumb and I feel like I am wasting my time. I do not know what makes me want to leave and just apply for nursing school and get my NP or DNP but it's a thought that has been going through my mind since Friday... Is that bad or is that a sign saying "hey you this is not for you." I don't know I am on an island where it is not easy to get resources that are helpful. Would NP or DNP be the wrong route to take... If you were in my shoes would you regret changing your career path?

Hello there I have my BS in Bioloogy and am currently in medical school I am in my first semester and hate this school. They do not teach here. I am in a caribbean school. I am really thinking of becoming an NP or getting into the DNP program. I am so confused but so misrable here. Can you give me any advice. I want to stay in the medical feild but I dont know if medical school is for me anymore.

Hello my name is Cynthia and I am a med 1 student in a caribean school and I really need unbiased advice. All my life I worked to getting into medical school. I have my BS in Biology and overall and an ok GPA and a really bad MCAT. For these reasons I never got into medical school in one of the states so I applied to one in the caribbean. Now that I am here I feel that I made the biggest mistake of my life. The teachers do not teach. They want you to waste your time in class then go home and learn in out of a book. I have never been a book learner and am struggling a lot with this teaching style. I really want to work in the medical feild but I am starting to think that maybe medical school is not for me especially if I am paying $12,000 a semster to not be taught. I know that I just started but I am misrable here and last Friday I woke up and started thinking that maybe nursing and becoming an NP would be the way to go. I do not want to view myself as a failure and again have my haert set in working in pediatrics and helping people, but I do not know what to do. Anatomy to me is an important subject for this feild and I did not take it for my BS and now that I am taking it without any guidence I feel hopless and like a failure, and after contacting other schools in the caribbean and back in the states I have yet to hear on tell me that they make you learn anatomy on your own and that you should learn it from a book. All the doctor, nurses, and schools that I spoke with told me that they were taught anatomy. PLEASE help would nursing be a horrible decision to make now that I am in medical school or what. I really do not know what to do and I do not want to give up my dream of working in the medical feild.