So they come to Drop Out Club to air their worries, seek solace from those who’ve made the leap — and just feel less alone. I know Georgetown offers an MS in biohazardous threat agents, and Tufts offers a 5-year MD/MA in international relations. “Doctors are frustrated with how much time they’re spending on paperwork and other activities that have little to do with patient care.”. A third says simply, âI donât want to be a doctor anymore!â The posts come in from across the globe, each generating its own thread of commiseration and advice. With no nationally available, peer-reviewed data on physician turnover, it’s not clear precisely how many doctors leave because of burnout. you need to figure out if you really went into medicine for the wrong reasons. But they've wanted to be doctors since they were 12. âI donât want to write this book anymore,â I thought. I am certain that I want to leave clinical medicine, but I don't know what else to do with my life. Wow, i came across this post as i was literally searching âI donât want to be a nurse anymoreâ. Has medicine today become too much about process, and not enough about relationships? Even though you donât want to practice nursing at the bedside anymore, it doesnât mean that you lose the RN title after your name. I donât want to ever feel this stupid again.â A month later the book was finished. If you havenât yet picked up on it, I donât want to be a doctor anymore. I've received an offer to study Medicine this year, but I'm almost 100% sure that I don't want to go. “Leaving behind the familiar and going into the unknown was scary at first. After all, you struggled through nursing school. I'm in my first year of med school. But, I don't know how and I don't know if I should. Once she made it to the other side, she decided to regularly provide career advice — and her email address — on the forum. The educated professionals are just who they are themselves. I've contacted both the Homeland Security Studies Department and gone through IR lecturers. Then she found Drop Out Club. Joe – and i’m sure Eric can give some better examples – for pediatricians, the tough part are what are known as “helicopter parents”: these are parents who are hovering around the doctor and questioning every single thing that he/she does. If this was someone at the end of his second year or something, fine. This is sort of along the lines of what I was thinking, except IMO someone should have given OP the heads-up at some point that medicine might not exactly be the best fit for someone with the goals he/she listed. ), “The frustration with medicine is fueling our growth,” said Dr. Laura Fijolek McKain, the founder of Physician Nonclinical Career Hunters. Part 5 of almost entirely unedited interview of Dr. Alex DeLuca by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in early March, 2008. Dr. Mary Schultheis, a colorectal surgeon, joined Drop Out Club after 10 years in private practice. I've alway been conflicted as to whether to study Medicine or English Literature, but thought that English could just be a hobby, so I plucked for Medicine. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Medical education can leave doctors with up to a half million dollars of debt, making many feel tied to a high-paying job. Share; Tweet; The short answer is, it is not the end of the world. But more than most, doctors may find a career change daunting. On average, one new physician per week emails Shapland for advice after finding her contact information through Drop Out Club. Four years - 3 more, I could probably handle. I am located in Minnesota and I don't want to practice clinically anymore, I have a BS in biology and my AS in dental hygiene, what else can I do with ⦠I don't even want to know if I still want to be a PA anymore. Some of them are suffering from what doctors know simply by the shorthand of burnout — loss of enthusiasm for work, feelings of cynicism, and a low sense of personal accomplishment. I've just spent a year studying medicine at university and have realised I don't want to study it anymore. If you are considering leaving the course either temporarily or permanently, you do have options available. “Drop Out Club couldn’t help me come to terms with this, but working with a career coach did.” She left clinical practice this year and now balances part-time consulting and health insurance industry roles. “Before you quit, think about what motivated you in the first place, and what changed,” cautions an emergency physician to an early-career doctor. March 14, 2016. istockphoto/ ConstantinosZ. At first, she felt guilty for wanting to leave. If you do not want to do the things a doctor does, then there is absolutely ZERO reason for you to be in medical school. My grades are excellent and everyone around me knows that I wanted this since I was 12.