Chemical engineering or medicine?

Can I know the experience of any people  who have done medicine after doing engineering or any degree unrelated to medicine?

• i want to do medicine and for now iam doing my last year in mechanical engineering can anyone help me with whatever you know

• Answer:

  Welcome! Full disclosure: my perspective on this is from one who is starting medical school shortly (August, here I come!) I decided to change careers to medicine after working a few years in software engineering and IT. I was growing increasingly uneasy about committing to a career that seemed to work against my humanity and personality, rather than augmenting and expanding on them. Heading back to the classroom has been a difficult--but obviously not impossible--path thus far, though I have really enjoyed going back to school. I needed to satisfy almost all of the Pre-med science requirements for medical school matriculation. I elected to do a post-baccalaureate program, but so long as you can prove dedication and general mastery of the core topics, it shouldn't much matter where or how you satisfy the course requirements. (Also, you can kind of prove yourself, courses-wise, twice: science GPA as well as via MCAT scores). Another bit of advice I would provide is to set up something that engages you for the med school application "gap" year that "non-traditional" students will experience. Med school applications take about 9 months to fully run their course, with a lot of down-time and waiting. (Read: a sort of passive stress) most "traditional" students are simply completing the senior year of their bachelor's degree during this time, but for those of us already done with that, it represents a weird period of suspended animation. If you can keep working a job you enjoy, I say do it. If you can afford to travel, do it. Keep busy with what you love. No one wants a doctor who's burned out before even starting school! There are hours and hours of advice I could give on the specifics for someone approaching this like I have, but suffice it to say that if you work hard and maintain a serious enthusiasm for what you're doing, you'll kill it! Good luck! PS - Avoid SDN (student doctor network) for the most part, unless you are a VERY confident person. Too much anxiety in those forums. That way, madness lies. :) PPS - I'm also happy to answer any other questions. Just let me know!