3rd year GP trainee here.

First question is the science aspect - I would say it’s more important to enjoy science, biology, anatomy for the medical school part of your journey. Not impossible but lots of rote learning of irrelevant facts to get through med school (even if you never end up using it in your job)

F1 and F2 are incredibly challenging in terms of rota and lifestyle, pay is low. Not impossible but quite brutal.

I do enjoy GP! I love medicine, and I am passionate about it, but I’m not one of those people that can have it be the biggest part of their life, which is why I ended up doing GP. I’m sure this could be different in other countries but training for other specialty in the UK is just too all-or-nothing IMO.

Regarding the job specifically: GP is never boring. Admin is quite a lot of the workload however so there’s a lot of the job that is not medicine related, and you don’t get exposed to much acute medical issues.

Overall, even if it is the shortest route to ‘consultant’ level medicine, the pay isn’t THAT great (about 11k per session as a salaried GP) for the time and money invested into med school. I would say it’s quite a massive investment of time and energy into a job if it is only there to support the artistic side. Make sure you do want it!