What do I want to be after Medical School?

1. What gives you most joy in life? Please note the question is about joy, which is different from pleasure. Pleasure is what you get when you eat ice cream on a hot day. Joy is what you feel at the end of Ramadan if you are religious or the feeling you have when you have helped someone you wanted to help.

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2. What work-life balance do you want? Do you want to work:

9 am to 2pm ________

9 am to 5pm ________

9 am to 7pm ________

9 am to 9pm ________

3. What are your responsibilities in life? Older parents, siblings older and younger, and/or someone who is ill in the family

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What three subjects that you have ever read in life (not limited to those in medical school) do you find intellectually stimulating?

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4. Whose idea was it that you go to medical school?

Mine ____________________________________

Parents? Which parent? Mother or father ____________________

Other? Who ________________________

5. Choose 3 areas of medicine that are interesting to you and list them in order of priority.

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List why like each one of them:

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