Someday Doctor

As an older, non traditional “someday physician”, I often have to ask myself if this is really feasible for me. Now that I’m a husband and a father, I have more than just myself to think about, and because I’m finally starting to get serious about trying to get into med school, it’s time to crunch some numbers and figure out if this is really something I’m going to be able to do.

In business school, we were taught about feasibility studies. We were taught to do a thorough analysis of a project to determine whether it was (a) physically possible and (b) fiscally feasible. Today I’m starting my own feasibility study for medical school.

Step 1: Interviews

My first step is to get in touch with as many people as possible who have experience in the medical and/or education fields and pick their brains to make sure I’m thinking through all the necessary considerations. Among my list of people to contact are: my cousin, who is currently in med school at Texas Tech, a dentist friend, another cousin who works as an RN, a pre-med advisor at a university, and as many medical and med school forums as I can find.

My 2 main goals with this step are to:

1. Determine the feasibility of going back to school given my current situation.
2. Think through any considerations that I might not have thought of on my own.

So that’s where I am right now. Any and all suggestions/advice are more than welcome!