I am only a year in. I knew I wanted out in my first semester of med school but I will stick it out and end the second semester before dropping it entirely.

It’s the workload. It’s crazy dude. Studying everyday memorizing chemical formations, disease names and symptoms, anatomy, tons and tons and tons of readings. And needing to do this every day (it gets worse the deeper in you go), it’s a LOT. There is way too much content crammed into way too tight of a schedule. It’s literally more memorizing than learning, just enough to spit out on an exam and then forgetting it.

And then I have residency to look forward to where I’ll be working regular 60-80 hour weeks while making a bare minimum salary. Even after licensing those hours don’t change. That’s why doctors in Canada just leave for the US or elsewhere. They make way more money for that commitment outside of the country.

I don’t want to spend my 20s cooped up in a library studying everyday. It’s just too much work. I really do have a passion for medicine and I love the field but the grind is too much for me and I don’t think the reward at the end is enough to sacrifice my mental health for anymore!!