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Anonymous Sun Apr 10 03:19:13 2016 No.1184833 [Reply] [Original]

What's a better investment?

Becoming a doctor or going a quarter of the way for half the salary to become a doctor's assistant?

For instance, I'm almost a candidate for med school, but almost a candidate for PA and NP school.

I still need to take microbio and maybe a sociology class or spanish.
For NP, I need to either get a BSN or go straight into a masters which might end up obsolete soon.
For PA, I need >1,000 hours in health care exp, of which I have about ~300 at this moment.

For med school, I need to do the MCAT and take organic chem and a few others.

All in all, med school I'm looking at ~7 years for a 200k+ salary.
PA/NP is going to be ~3 years for a 100k salary.

ANYONE KNOW? Studentdoctor.net has tons of threads on this, but I thought i'd get /biz/'s take on it.

I'm 25, and I'm seriously getting tired of school, but fuck me if I've been in school for 7 years already and I don't end up with a six figure salary on the other side.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 10 03:56:14 2016 No.1184860 >>1184833 Become doctors assistant, find decent sidegig and don't report income. Earn about the same as doctor after taxes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 10 04:15:32 2016 No.1184876 >>1184860 good call.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 10 06:17:03 2016 No.1184939 File: 51 KB, 468x423, 1459629818393.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1184860 Yeah and when wonder after 20 years why your life feels like used condom :^)

Anonymous Sun Apr 10 10:05:40 2016 No.1185080
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>>1184833
I'm going in for a BSN, and I might get into the PA thing at some point if I feel like I need better prospects.

If you're really interested in PA/Doctoring I hear going the BSN route, and grabbing a few extra classes, leaves you pretty favorably for applying to med school, but also lets you work in a high demand field immediately.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 10 10:07:48 2016 No.1185082 >>1185080 oops I didn't read your whole post before replying I guess you're ahead of me, so I can't really help you

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