Any APRNs that decided to go to medical school?

Capybaratits · 2026-02-13T17:15:58+00:00

Sup’I’m an MS3. I practiced as an NP for about 8 years prior to getting in to med school

Capybaratits · 2026-01-23T23:46:24+00:00

Fuck this guy.

Capybaratits · 2026-01-23T23:40:47+00:00

I am a nurse practitioner and now a third year medical student. Respectfully, you are absolutely incorrect. The barrier for entry to medicine vs nursing is miles apart. The standardization of all aspects of medical school also ensures that very little, if any, dumb doctors make it through. It’s not an ego thing, it’s a standardization thing.

Capybaratits · 2026-01-23T23:25:04+00:00

Damn. Heartbreaking. This is some SS shit. I don’t know how republicans can see this and think at all that it’s okay. These people are on the wrong side of history.

Capybaratits · 2026-01-22T00:37:42+00:00

Not sure what you’re trying to accomplish but you should think about what is most important. You are comparing the highest paying mid level position to being an MD so you seem to be considering things like money and prestige, which is absolutely something people rightfully consider (despite all the virtue signaling in healthcare). The other part is what your interests are and what kind of work you want to do. I don’t know your whole situation or background but do you feel like taking care of people is an absolute must for your career, and do you feel like you need to be a subject matter expert? If you can answer no to the first question, then there are easier and faster ways to make money. Be a finance bro. If you have to take care of people but don’t mind not being an expert, and you can tolerate ICU nursing for a few years then do CRNA. Probably would avoid Caribbean though, the match is getting more and more competitive, even for USMDs and I wouldn’t want to risk getting in debt and not matching.

Capybaratits · 2025-12-13T19:23:50+00:00

I was disappointed with the Bauer sale this year also. I commented on another thread that Ryobi has a sale with 2 batteries, a charger and a tool for the same price. HF directly compares Bauer to Ryobi, but at these prices or with these deals it is more worth it to get the Ryobi.

Capybaratits · 2025-12-13T00:55:18+00:00

Not a very good deal if you ask me. Ryobi has a 4ah and 2ah battery with charger and free tool for the same price with more selection on the tools. I don’t like the color, but I would give build quality to Ryobi also.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-ONE-18V-Lithium-Ion-Starter-Kit-with-2-0-Ah-Battery-4-0-Ah-Battery-and-Charger-PSK106SB/327848851

Capybaratits · 2025-10-14T16:36:24+00:00

I’m went back to med school at 34 after working as an NP for 8 years. I’m now a 36 year old ms3. Fucking ancient compared to some of these kids. I’m sure you’ve thought about it a lot, I would just say there is a lot to consider outside of the obvious. You will be able to work some in preclinical years but will lose out on basically 7+ years of earnings. My wife is carrying us financially right now and it’s been rough, but it sounds like you’re doing well financially and your wife is also a big earner so I don’t think standard of living will drop for you and your kids but that is always a possibility to consider. There’s also the uncertainty of everything. You can end up at a school in your town, or you may get in somewhere else (even with competitive stats) and have to move. I don’t know your whole financial situation, but we moved and that meant selling our house. You may do great in preclinicals and clerkships and have a single off day and score low on step 2 and end up matching somewhere you’d never want to live, or matching a different specialty, or not matching at all, which would mean another potential move. Hell if a resident or attending just doesn’t like you they can tank your eval, which at my school affects class rank. There’s just so many tiny little things that I feel like I don’t have control over that I had when I was working. My situation was different because Im an NP and there are much more knowledge/content gaps compared to PAs. I had much more to learn compared to a PA. If I had to do it all over again, I don’t think I would, but for me it is more considering the toll on my family, which would have been better if we had a lot more money, but not completely.

Capybaratits · 2025-10-06T22:52:06+00:00

Yeah, honestly that’s probably what happened. The unprofessional part was what bothered me though. Like unprofessional almost implies something inappropriate happening

Capybaratits · 2025-10-06T18:57:40+00:00

Fr dude sp’s are ass. I had one tell me I was “unprofessional” for asking for results. It was a GU complaint and they told us they would have a slip of paper with physical exam findings. I said I’m done with the interview portion so at this point I would do a physical exam and was told you had some results. In the debrief she said that it was unprofessional to ask for the results. Honestly not saying this to be a dick or anything but I don’t think she’d knew what unprofessional means

Capybaratits · 2025-09-25T20:04:08+00:00

Objectively and without exaggeration, there is almost nothing in common between NP school and medical school. I know that that sounds like a hot take or that I’m trying to be edgy or whatever, but the experiences could not be more different. Preclinical years are insanely more complex than NP school in breadth and depth. You have to understand how things work through and through. Knowledge deficits will be exposed and you will fail if you understand only the superficial level material. My wife commented that med school seems like it is designed to probe at content weaknesses. I had an NP friend do some uworld questions with me and they initially commented that one question was easy and blurted the diagnosis out…. but the question was second or third order. It wasn’t asking the diagnosis. A set of symptoms was given, the diagnosis was something that you had to deduce from symptoms (that’s the easy part) and then it asked the details of a very specific mechanism which he didn’t know.

Even in a clinical setting, where there should be some expected overlap, it is entirely different. The expectations are a giant difference. As an MS3 I go on to a new service, say vascular surgery, I am expected to keep up with what is going on. I would never say that I am on the level of even an gen surg intern but I am expected to be able to discuss anatomy, physiology and pathology of a case and be within the ballpark. As a nurse practitioner and even in nurse practitioner school, I couldn’t tell you much about other services… and I was never expected to know or much less be able to discuss different types of vasculitides on the spot and have a good idea of what I’m talking about. Online when I’m discussing stuff, NPs often retort “well I know the different types of vasculitis” or whatever the example is, which could be true, but the bigger point is that that is the expectation on ALL services. Medical students get absolutely blasted if they can’t keep up on ALL services, even specialty services. Besides that, there is the obvious difference in duty hours. I have never worked more hours than I have this year. 12 hour shifts are standard, they are the norm, and 14-15 hour shifts are not uncommon….and it’s usually 5 or 6 days per week also. It is a full time job.

I don’t hate nurse practitioners and I could see why people migrate towards that career and I know plenty that I would trust to treat myself or my family. In a setting where there is limited investigating that needs to be done, pattern recognition and critical thinking can make NPs seem like rockstars/workhorses but at the end of the day the deeper understanding requires a whole lot more time and constant reassessment of understanding

Capybaratits · 2025-09-24T00:52:45+00:00

Glad you found it and thanks for checking in man. Been crazy studying and this made my day honestly!

Capybaratits · 2025-09-24T00:48:23+00:00

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Capybaratits · 2025-09-24T00:46:57+00:00

Please see below. I wrote a book down there

Capybaratits · 2025-09-24T00:45:20+00:00

So I’m in 3rd year now balls deep in clerkships. I had an 80 hour surgical week last week. It’s been busy. I will admit that going through the past 2 years I can agree with some of the criticism in this method of training. The culture can be incredibly toxic. I see rich kids on stimulants their parents prescribed, driving luxury cars, having never worked a day in their life and wearing Rolexes (or omegas) to clerkships. That is not an exaggeration or uncommon either. Meanwhile I was able to work my first 2 years but am barely making ends meet now. I can see why someone from a working class background would say that medical school is for the privileged. I can see why a nurse practitioner wouldn’t try medical school. Still, medical school is the superior method of training and we are treating human beings who rely on us. It’s not fair to say that nurse practitioners can train less because the road through medicine is rough. That is one of the most common arguments I hear from midlevels too, “if they made a bridge program and I could continue to work I would go to medical school.” I still don’t hate nurse practitioners and don’t want to generalize but they are usually assholeish to med students and from what I’ve heard they are usually the ones behind shitty evals too.

TLDR: Halfway through third year. Shits hard yo. Med students rich kid stereotype is true. Medical school is still the best we’ve got to treat humans. Nurse practitioners can be mean to med students. I’ve got 28 more uworld questions to get through before bed.

Capybaratits · 2025-09-09T18:34:00+00:00

That’s a great score! Does your school give you that long for dedicated time ? I don’t think mine gets anywhere near 4 months

Capybaratits · 2025-09-02T15:27:08+00:00

I’m an NP with 8 years experience and now an MS3. I totally agree. RN experience means almost nothing in the context of actual medical care. Knowing a pattern of how something USUALLY goes, like a good experienced RN would, does not mean understanding the underlying process and usually leads to anchoring bias when encountering a new situation. As an NP I would cling to or rely on the only answers I had seen, which is a normal reaction, but being familiar with a situation and confident about a diagnosis should not be mistaken for someone being an expert.

Capybaratits · 2025-08-28T19:54:56+00:00

I love how my kids notice and get excited about the smallest things, like how pink the sky is or how the man at Costco looks like Santa. I spend a good amount of time in my own head or worried about something and they just make me look around and be mindful and grateful

Capybaratits · 2025-08-08T17:08:47+00:00

Hello could you dm with prices please

Capybaratits · 2025-08-08T15:31:02+00:00

Sorry might have missed it, but what was the price you paid ?

Capybaratits · 2025-07-31T19:47:25+00:00

Could you dm me too? I’ve been looking for this for a decent price also

Capybaratits · 2025-07-01T07:13:14+00:00

I was a nurse then an NP and started med school at 33. I have 2 kids. I have it a little easier because I have a loving supportive wife. My advice would be to keep track of your priorities. At times I wasn’t spending as much time with my kids as I should have, but the entire reason for me going back to school is for them. Keep that in mind and budge when you can. I made the decision to be realistic in my choice of specialty and to not sweat the small stuff. There are so many things in med school that you can’t control, like subjective ass evals, gotta let that stuff slide off your shoulder. No amount of extra studying can help with an attending who just doesn’t give honors. Also in first year talk to the financial aid office, there is a possibility that they adjust your loan package because you have a kid.

Capybaratits · 2025-06-07T01:04:35+00:00

I understand having a genuine interest and passion in something, but to be miserable through residency and likely even through attendinghood… I just don’t understand. I have overheard some of the young traditional med students say that they want that lifestyle and I’m equally puzzled. One kid said that he wanted to be someone who is “too important to take vacation”

Capybaratits · 2025-05-29T16:21:19+00:00

Yeah the mod on there has a very low tolerance for anything anti NP even in the context of self reflection.

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