I want to study to become a doctor but I am a brainlet, with a two-digit IQ (97 confirmed with a real test). Do you think I can still do it if I study hard, or is there some kind of requirement on intelligence to make it?
This is my single greatest dream in life, so I will give it my absolute all. But I don't want to waste years of my life if it is impossible no matter what for me.
The fact that you already doubt yourself and are asking on here implies you'll never make it.
Maybe you could be a general practitioner or a podiatrist.
Why would anybody want to be a doctor? The responsibility would be WAY too much for me to handle. I wouldn't want people to place their lives in my hands, ever.
I can tell you for a fact tons of doctors are legit stupid with no applicable knowledge outside their area of expertise. Your iq isn't the issue when becoming a physician m, the issue is work ethic. You need athlete tier work ethic.
Also iq isn't real, read constantly if you're worried about that
>is there some kind of requirement on intelligence to make it?
no, just get in good with your professors during uni and suck a lot of dick for those recommendations
I'm supposed to be a nurse and I'm currently failing at work. It's not even the pressure alone. It's my social incapability. When I went to school I thought my shyness was just a phase. Now I'm almost 30 and it's worse than ever because now I want to die and have nothing in life but sadness. Every day I sit there like a mute just grinning because my soul wants to run away from my body and just never exist again, but I have to smile and pretend to be normal in my desperate attempt to salvage it, which I won't be able to.
In short, if you're not confident and sociable, stay away from those jobs.
You could work for the nhs in england. They will take anyone.
medfag here. you can do it. in medicine you dont really have to understand complex structure and things you just have to learn a tone of things. so if you are motivated and can learn long and a lot of things you will make it, even though you are a brainlet.
And people wonder why I don't trust doctors
you have everywhere idiots.
there are good and bad doctores.
stop using this retarded american black and white thinking you retarded faggot.
You make a good point, I see one right here :^)
You might just about make it, but you should be aware that it's going to be extremely difficult with your low IQ and will require so much more effort. Sorry OP. If it means that much to you then do it, it's not impossible.
It's a lot easier to use this sword of truth to untie this Gordian Knot of finding a competent and caring physician. They don't exist.
This isn't house senpai, you don't need a smart doctor you need one that's well educated and self motivated.
You don't have to be a genius to be a doctor. You only have to have the work ethic to spend hours and hours learning the shit you need to know.
Not sure, but I seriously hope you don't try. IQ may not measure anything concrete, and I would guess you could easily boost that score anywhere up to a 110 just depending on your mental state at the time of testing. But if you have EVER struggled to break into triple digits on one of those tests, you just don't have the intelligence to not fuck up on that job many times and in big ways throughout your career.
These things always make me laugh. How did they determine what IQ you need for each profession.
this is next-level bait *claps*
This is probably the average IQ tested in members of those professions.
Speaking from experience, you don't need to be really clever to be a good doctor but you need to be hard working enough to take on a huge workload and learn a lot of things. Medicine is mostly pattern recognition and prioritisation, and med school teaches you those things as you go on. You need to have an aptitude to be able to read a hell of a lot of stuff but you almost never need to understand all of it in depth because no one understands all of it. As you start to specialise your area of expertise starts to become narrower but more complex, so you start to know more about one speciality in a lot of detail but let your general medical knowledge slip. But by that stage as long as you can manage emergencies you'll be alright.
t. surgeon.
do you think you can handle that level of responsibility? for most jobs if you fuck up the company might lose some money and you just get fired
fucking up as a doctor can get you sued and face legal consequences
You can do it. I've seen doctors far more stupid than that.fully acting and shit. however don't expect to enter a good residency program with that iq, you will be far outclassed.
the issue is where you want to act inside the medical field.
just suck it up. Your life would be shit no matter the profession you were in.So, be prepared to suck it or just off yourself already. the next 50 years of your life won't be any easier.
Wrong. As a fellow medfag I recognize you're not very smart, because you forget the simple fact brainlets can't memorize. If he can't memorize a ton of stuff he can't make it anyways, unless he turns into a mediocre ass GP, which is the only way out for him.
Not at all. Doctors in Japan have an average IQ of 130. Even in countries like Brazil their average is 110, in opposite to 90 of their general populace
gp's and psychiatrists can't fuck up lol. Their jobs have little to no real death risk involved. People kill themselves? not the doctors fault+500 dollars the hour