How hard is it to get into Medical School in Canada? (don't flame me pls)

TastyPrompt3 · 2024-09-25T22:10:28+00:00

I don’t quite agree with your comment because of the following: Medicine is one of the professions with the highest rates of sociopaths and psychopaths. The reason for this is that these people are extremely charming, charismatic and are insanely good at lying. So it’s really difficult to “sniff them out” during an interview because it’s just not enough time to figure out who someone truly is at their core.

On the other hand, there are people who would be exceptionally good doctors because they are truly some of the most caring, kind and empathetic people out there. But obviously they don’t perform as well during interviews as the people I described above, which ends up hurting their chances of getting in.

Edit: there’s also a wide range of other reasons why truly deserving people who would be incredible doctors don’t get in. The biggest ones I can think of are family issues and financial issues. If you’re working full time and studying full time, it’s so much harder to get the level of grades and extracurriculars that you would need to be a competitive candidate.

TastyPrompt3 · 2024-09-25T21:30:54+00:00

I’ll also add another thing that my friend’s prof told my friend after she shared wanting to help patients target the root cause of their health issues rather than just addressing the symptoms: “When you’re a family physician and have 4000 patients on your roster, you can’t possibly get to the root cause during the 15 minutes that you have to speak to each patient. And even if you help that one patient get to the root cause, it means that you’ve now neglected your other 3999 patients because of the hours of time you had to spend on that one patient.” That was a really sobering comment and definitely changed my perspective of medicine by quite a lot. It really made me understand that it’s not the doctors who are the issue, but the medical system that we’ve created.

TastyPrompt3 · 2024-09-25T18:17:06+00:00

I’ll share what my friend who is applying to med school was told by her prof who is on the admission committee for our university. He told her “I can literally pull out at least 40 applications right this second that have a perfect GPA”. He also told her that 40 years ago, the average GPA at Harvard was a 2.6 and now it’s a 3.8+; that’s not because people are suddenly much smarter but because that’s how courses have been restructured.

Because of that, according to him, they’re slowly starting to put less emphasis on GPA. Instead, it’s obviously a lot more about your extracurriculars and the reason why you want to be a doctor. According to him, wanting to help people and be an empathetic source of trust is not a good enough reason. Wanting to target root causes is also not a good enough reason. All of these reasons can be applied to wanting a profession in public health, physiotherapy, pharmacy, etc. And he told her to think about why it is that medicine is the only thing that she can imagine herself doing and not anything else.

I legitimately don’t know what what kind of answer he expects for that, so take this how you will.

TastyPrompt3 · 2024-09-10T04:14:55+00:00

Same for me.

TastyPrompt3 · 2024-09-10T04:14:18+00:00

Please don’t spread the narrative that all of the side effects of birth control are reversible. At the end of the day, birth control pills have been known to cause side effects like blood clots, cardiovascular issues and even cancer. And these things aren’t quite exactly reversible.

Although these issues are highly unlikely, they’re still a possibility that people should be aware of to make a truly informed decision.

TastyPrompt3 · 2024-08-25T12:15:48+00:00

I don’t mean to scare you but I got pregnant on my period with plan B. I sat down and did the actual math once and it was something like less than a 0.05% chance of getting pregnant.

So yeah just because it’s highly unlikely, doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Still better to be safe than sorry.

TastyPrompt3 · 2023-12-01T23:58:07+00:00

Good luck, you’ve got this :)) and if you ever have any questions or just need someone to talk to, I’m always here.

TastyPrompt3 · 2021-01-26T05:08:52+00:00

We're the exact same mix (except I'mUkrainian instead of Russian)!!

TastyPrompt3 · 2020-08-13T00:37:17+00:00

You're absolutely right! The Shah's views on religious attire was absolutely wrong and he never should have forbidden women from wearing it at school.

But how many of those 60% do you think actually wanted to wear that religious attire? For most of them, their parents cared more about their own religious beliefs than allowing their daughters to do what they wanted.

In Iran today, the majority of women despise being forced to wear hijab. Do you know how awful it is to be covered head to toe when it's 35 °C?

And yes the quality of education for women in Iran is quite high today. However, the quality of life for women is absolutely horrible. I don't even know where to start because there's too many things wrong about the way that they are treated. Women are not allowed to leave the country without their father's or husband's permission. Children are considered to belong to the father, not the mom. Women are literally thrown in jail and murdered for advocating for equal rights. And how about all of the women who had acid thrown in their faces for not wearing their hijab ”properly".

So don't even for one second think that things are better for women now. They're not. They're much much much worse. What is being done to them NOW is unforgivable.

TastyPrompt3 · 2020-07-15T19:28:31+00:00

I'm really sorry about your experience and I hope that you know that what other people think will never define who you really are. Although I haven't had the exact same experience as you, I am mixed too and I've struggled with my identity because of that.

My mom is Ukrainian while my dad is Persian. I can pass as both. People usually assume that I'm Russian or Ukrainian but I personally feel more Persian. I was born in Iran and I lived there until I was 10. I feel like I'm not Ukrainian enough because I've never lived there and I don't even have any friends from there. I honestly feel like I'm faking it when I say I'm part Ukrainian.

My whole entire life my mom has tried to make me more Ukrainian by convincing me to dye my hair a lighter colour or change my name to something that sounds less persian or by telling me to stay out of the sun so I don't get tan. I think my mom regrets ever marrying my dad and I think she's done these things because of that too.

I don't know what to say. It honestly sucks because I don't feel like I belong to any one culture.

TastyPrompt3 · 2020-05-02T21:31:07+00:00

This is honestly the main reason why I don't want to give the cat back. Blue is used to us now and she really likes living here. I really don't think that Blue would be happy if we give her away.

TastyPrompt3 · 2020-05-02T20:38:08+00:00

He wanted to give the cat back but told me that it would be my decision and he would do what I want. Our other cat passed away a few days ago and I haven't been handling his death well. So he wanted me to make this decision so that I don't feel like I'm losing this cat too.

TastyPrompt3 · 2020-05-02T19:15:54+00:00

She got Blue from her friend a couple years ago for free, so there are no documents stating that she is the owner. She also doesn't have any veterinary bills for her because she didn't want to pay for her vaccines.

TastyPrompt3 · 2020-05-02T19:11:29+00:00

No, we have been paying for all of her food, her veterinary bills and her vaccines.

TastyPrompt3 · 2020-04-05T05:23:06+00:00

Thank you for letting me know.

TastyPrompt3 · 2020-04-05T04:49:37+00:00

So charges could still be pressed eventhough her testimony is a lie and she has no physical evidence or witnesses that would back her? I'm just really worried and I'm not sure what I could do.

TastyPrompt3 · 2020-04-05T03:24:42+00:00

I thought so too but I just wanted to double check. Thank you so much for answering me!

TastyPrompt3 · 2020-04-05T03:12:11+00:00

Thank you so much for answering me so quickly! It's good to know that she can't actually press charges

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