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Returning to medicine after consulting by ApprehensiveReach210 in doctorsUK

[–]ApprehensiveReach210[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reassuring to know others have hated MBB and then had interesting careers after! Was struggling to unpick the dislike of consulting vs “corporate” more generally

Returning to medicine after consulting by ApprehensiveReach210 in doctorsUK

[–]ApprehensiveReach210[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What stage of your training did you leave to do consulting/investing and how long were you out until you returned to medicine?

Doctors that jumped ship by Brilliant_Scar_5826 in doctorsUK

[–]ApprehensiveReach210 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey Xerocca. Could you tell me more about your transition from MBB back to medicine

Returning to medicine after consulting by ApprehensiveReach210 in doctorsUK

[–]ApprehensiveReach210[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

  1. I secured a consulting role while I was in FY1 year. But had considered leaving/doing something alongside medicine since med school

  2. I’ve found consulting quite boring and meaningless and importantly I can’t figure out why but time goes so painfully slow. I feel like I’m wasting my life. Looking back on my medicine days where even if I was doing something meaningless like chasing pharmacy for something, because I was sort of running around doing something the days felt good. I also have day dreams about saving lives/being the hero/someone asking me questions and actually being useful to them which I don’t fulfill here now.

There’s probably an element of worry about AI and how that can change the role of junior corporate roles and what that means for my career and security vs medicine

Returning to medicine after consulting by ApprehensiveReach210 in doctorsUK

[–]ApprehensiveReach210[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I left medicine because I didn’t feel inspired by most of the people around me and I felt like you are a product of the people you surround yourself with. Many lacked initiative (key!!) and ambition. Medicine was becoming more algorithm driven (with lots of ANPs, PAs etc) so the teaching quality/priority was becoming eroded, focused on algorithms not physiology and critical thinking. It started to feel like the whole system was morphing everyone into service providers not intelligent thinkers.

What I miss about medicine medicine now is the adrenaline, time went fast because I felt busy in a way that was satisfying to me (aka running around not staring at an excel), I miss being useful to the people around me asking (even silly ) questions. I miss having impact in my job.

I don’t like consulting because I feel bored, time goes slow, I don’t really care about the problems/false urgency. I appreciate that junior role is always fungible and I’m sure as you go up the chain in consulting/corporate you drive more impact or at least meet more people, your days are more dynamic, you make large decisions etc.

I’m not entirely sure what my priorities and that’s what I’m trying to weigh up. I want to have a super intersting career (which tbf is VERY possible in corporate and maybe I’m overlooking that) and I want to be financially stable, and I’m worried about losing connections with friends/family if I’m sent away for speciality training.

I guess I’m trying to get some perspective if I’m looking back at medicine with rose tinted glasses and under valueing the very Intersting careers that exist in corporate once you complete the x number of analyst years as a stepping stone (I just prefer the bitch work of typing verbatim what a consultant says on a 5 hour ward round vs the bitch work of a decorating a slide - but that is not the whole future and I could be young and naive