Worst Premed Advice You Fell For | 4 Big Mistakes

Any time you have a large group of people working tirelessly toward a goal, you're bound to get some interesting suggestions on how to achieve said goal. In weight loss, there's silly cleanses, radical diets, and vibrating corsets. With investing and wealth building, there's too many get-rich-quick schemes to count. And in becoming a doctor, we have these 4 terrible pieces of premed advice.

TIME STAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
01:14 Undervaluing the Data
03:18 Choosing Political Correctness Over Truth
06:23 Not Appreciating Nuance
08:21 Suboptimal Resources & Mentors

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[TheRealSkinImInMD]

The worst advice I got was to look into another career. Weird because now I’m a derm resident !

[u_o]

I fell for "just pass medical college entrance exam and everything will get easy onwards".

[nightshockplayz]

Worst advice:

1) Sacrifice wellbeing for grades.
2) Only care about hours for doing activities.
3) Doing activities that would "look good" rather than following interests.
4) Memorize, memorize, and memorize... Everything memorize.

Keep adding more to this thread if you guys want.

[sacdaabdurhman]

“Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful.” You doing great don’t quit.

[guadalajara]

There was a discussion on tik tok about how caribean med schools are just as good as us MD schools and I pointed out that one would have a hard time matching into residency if they go that route. Lo and behold I got called an elitist

[mariabells]

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."
-George Orwell

[nathanrlamb]

I appreciate the jabs at people being offended too easily and using being offended as an excuse to ignore facts

[lavenderblues]

Thank you for mentioning the East/south Asian thing about how they need higher stats 😔

[hakimmohammed]

It's funny because I was having a conversation with someone who told me Physician's Assistants should be paid equally to Doctors and specialized ones too because they can practice by themselves. I didn't want to break it to them that PAs can't even be full primary care providers much less practice at the level of doctors and specialized ones too, because they would probably have been offended.

[amerghali]

There's nothing offensive about saying that getting into DO is less academically demanding than a US MD (relatively speaking, I think overall it still is objectively challenging to get into a DO these days and students who do should be proud). Thanks for not mincing words and telling it how it is Kevin

[healer_]

Can you make a “so you want to be an oncologist”? And if you can please explain the difference between radiation oncology, medical oncology and hematology/oncology

[sebucwerd]

Thank you Dr. J for emphasizing soft components. They're hard to get right, and more important than people think.

[amberlawson]

Kevin thank you for doing all these videos on this channel and your other channel! They are so helpful! Keep up the great work! Currently a premed!

[sohansaha]

Thank you Dr. Jubbal for mentioning how it is harder for Asians to enter med school and keeping it real

[tylerwalburn]

A voice of reason and honesty. Medical trainees are fortunate to have you as a resource, Kevin.

[NeverMetTheGuy]

I'm not even interested in getting into doctorology, and only come for the rocket surgery, and brain science, information.

[maximumovermuslim]

Quick follow up questions to the whole DO vs MD likelihood of matching to competitive residencies...(not offended by the point, just want to promote discussion and thought)

1. Is it wise to limit one's med school choices by desired specialty? Pre meds have little to no clue what specialty will actually be enjoyable and rewarding to them, because they don't have the necessary clinical exposure that we'd see in our M4 years.
2. Is this difference based on the politics between MD and DO residencies, or is it because DO are less qualified for those residency positions? Most DO students elect to take the USMLE and COMLEX for Step/Level 1 together, but idk what the statistics are regarding those scores.
3. For those DO that did match into competitive residencies, what was their average USMLE score and how did it compare to the average score for MD counterparts?

[agashaalicia]

I'm not even done with high school but ....I'm going to remember these🙂...thank you Sir
Btw ... respectfully I'm scared😂...
But there's this quote that says
"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough"😊

[Hansahmed]

It is also important to note that these things are subject to change. Residencies are merging for MD and DO and the average MCAT and GPA in DO schools are rising everyday.

[joaoseibold]

I'm speaking for everyone we need " so you want to be an oncologist " please