Hi!

I'm a first year medical student interested in improving my teaching skills. I can help with any homework assignments or projects as well as help you develop a general study plan or career goal. If you have any questions about under grad, medical school requirements, MCAT prep, or the day-to-day of med school, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks

Aren't you guys required to do a community service project each year? You should go help out at your local senior centers or even highschools. The only teaching skill you need is being able to explain medical things in layman terms to the general public and that will require face to face talks.

We are required to reach a minimum number of hours by the end of our first two years. I volunteer plenty. Believe it or not, medicine has become very digitally based. A lot of communication is through email or on electronic medical records. I get plenty of "face to face talks" on a daily basis. I would like to be able to help people out on here who may not have had access to as many resources as I had. I tutor several students over email/skype because it's much more convenient for everyone involved, but it would be nice to help some people in a relaxed, semi-anonymous environment where they may feel more willing to provide me with honest feedback.

But I do appreciate you telling me more about my future career.

This post was edited by Keegan on Dec 1 2015 07:03pm

I was going to do medicine and got the grades at A level but did shit in the MCAT so couldn't get into the university I wanted. So I switched to doing economics and maths at the same uni as to avoid doing medicine at an OK uni. True story. No ragrets

This post was edited by dro94 on Dec 1 2015 07:05pm

good stuff bro. 2nd year graduate school Pharmacy here

need help on career advice

about to start teaching HS math here next month i believe once i set up interview next week (pretty solid on getting job)

but i grad too in 10 days with math ed degree. but i want to decide what i should do next. pursue more masters in apply math? or undergrad some apply math? or start another career...? always wanted to be a lawyer when i was younger (primarily for $$ but t.v. show Suits really has me liking it again). i am really good at math. i enjoy logical and critical thinking and all that fun stuff just having a hard time figuring out how to develop it extensively and apply it more

let me know if you any ideas...

what you mean by "apply" math?

no offense to op, but med school students aren't the best to ask about careers in mathematics, since the most they need to take is basically Calc1, and its rather unlikely you'll meet many med students that have done anything past your basic Calc1-Calc3 course sequence + an intro stat class.

Also, don't pick careers based on tv shows, they portray highly unrealistic, often glorified environments. There is almost zero chance of your actual job in the field being similar
I'm not an expert on law, but from what I've heard unless you are getting into a top 15 law school dont bother going because it'll be a waste of time and money and you wont be making much once you graduate

Getting to what you are interested in, you can do a lot with math. Not sure what your school requires for a math education degree, but if the focus is more on the education side than on the mathematics side, you will probably need to take some more math classes at an undergraduate or graduate level to get practical use out of the math background. From there you have tons of options. Many math majors go on to grad school (econ, finance, compsci, math, physics, engineering, etc.) or work in industry. Many jobs are available in computer science, finance, or data/statistical analysis. if you are looking to apply math, i'd try taking a course, even a free online course in one of the areas i mentioned. if it interests you look into focusing on that further

This post was edited by sentries on Dec 3 2015 02:17am