 So you want to become a doctor and you're probably a high school student who's interested in learning how to develop your interest, how to become competitive, and how to make sure this field is for you. Well then this video is for you, and I'm going to tell you all the things you should know if you're young and you're in high school and you want to become a doctor. Let's get into it after the intro. All right guys, what is going on unless you've been in the journey of helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. So this video guys is dedicated for all of you youngins who want to become at least at the point where I am where you are practicing as a medical doctor, which your far away is removed from it. You want to know what you should do now to really get to this point. And I'm going to break it down into several steps and so make sure you stay till the very end of the video. If you do enjoy it, make sure you give this video a like and subscribe to the channel for more tips on being a doctor, getting to be my doctor, and just everything in between. So let's get into it. So step number one guys, if you are in high school and you're trying to become a doctor is to get away from this idea of trying to be impressive. I feel like one of the most detrimental qualities for anyone trying to go into medicine is that you are just so kind of like focused on trying to make sure your chest is sticking out the whole time. You want to make sure people know of your academic paralysis, your research paralysis, community service. It's okay with being impressive, but sometimes you need to make sure of not trying to do going to work very hard to look impressive. So if you're trying to ask me in the comment section a lot of you guys do of how can I look impressive for med school, it's a little too early to ask for that if you're in high school, but it's also like the wrong idea. You need to ask what to do to kind of be a competitive applicant, but not about just being impressed. That's why your focus should be so get out of that mindset. It's really about gaining experience and making sure you're doing the right things now. That way when it comes down to college as well as med school, you have the right habits and the right systems in place. So tip number one is getting out of this mode of being impressed and tip number two guys is really the only thing aside from maybe the next one that you should really focus on is to perfect your study system to focus on long-term retention. In high school right now, you can probably get away with crying the night before and still ace your exams. Your classmates may not be able to do it, but you probably can. And in college, you may be able to do the same in med school. Not a chance. Maybe once or twice, but eventually it's going to get to you. There's just way too much information. So the best way for you to help your future self out and to make it more likely that you can become a doctor is to make sure you now perfect your study system. It's not to study excessive amount of hours. That's not the idea. It's to study as efficiently now to have long-term retention in the material you're learning. So if you're in biology, make sure you were asking yourself, how am I studying? What's working? What's not? How can I make adjustments? And I'll link down below to my setting playlist so you guys can check out. And you can use those same tips that I get to med students and you can use them in high school as well as college. So make sure you tinker with your setting because you should be focused on long-term retention. That's what being a doctor is about, right? So you want to remember what medications they give your patients. You want to remember important diagnosis. That's not something you just cram for. So focus on long-term retention and create systems to help yourself study better. Now the third thing you need to do is obviously get experience, get some exposure. I know a lot of you guys are interested. How do I probably get shadowing? How do I get people to let me follow them? And I'll admit, I'll be one of the first to admit, shadowing is tough. And, you know, I've made a whole video about shadowing. So I'll link it down below. I don't want to make this video longer than it has to be. But let's talk about some unique ways you can get some exposure. So shadowing is definitely one of them, but sometimes it's a numbers game. You have to contact a lot of people or at least know somebody in the field to get some shadow opportunities. But other things you can do are finding some unique experiences around you that can get you the same kind of exposure. For example, there are a lot of free healthcare clinics in prominent cities where you provide free healthcare and the doctors come on their own time and volunteer. And you may be able to volunteer yourself as well. You may be able to work in perception. You may be able to out with things such as checking vitals and blood pressure. And through all that, you can understand, do you like in this environment? Can you see yourself working as a doctor? Is this something, you know, that is cool to you? So clinics are great when health fairs are also another one where sometimes people are providing free healthcare like blood draws. You can help the phlebotomists. You can interest yourself to the doctors that are there and ask them if you can shadow them. A really interesting way to get some healthcare experience is through summer camps. So if you're young in your high school, maybe you're graduating to college and you have some summers off, try to see if there are some summer camps nearby that are particularly designed towards like a certain medical diagnosis or group. Like there are summer camps on kids with diabetes, kids with like cancer diagnosis, you name it. And you can work as a counselor or a staff member and really get to interact with these patients. Maybe you don't directly get to work in a medical context, but you get to work with patients who have a very significant medical disease and then understand, you know, is this a population I would want to serve one day in the future? I've had a lot of people who have mentored who have taken kind of advantage of these summer camps. They're a great kind of underappreciated way of getting a lot of exposure in a very short amount of time. And then finally guys, you know, a great way to get some exposure without even having to be anywhere is just checking out videos on certain fields that you may want to pursue. For example, you may want to be an orthopedic surgeon. There's some great videos of people making days in life of an orthopedic surgeon and I'll link some down below from some prominent YouTubers and doctors who have basically documented their life. So if you watch it, you can ask yourself, is this interesting? And two, could I see myself doing it? The second one is more important. But those are great kind of unique ways to get some experience without the traditional shadowing. You should still try the shadowing, but they're trickier and one especially if you're in high school. So those are some other things you can do to develop your interest. And to continue on guys, another thing you should really understand is it's important to explore and consider other fields. Being a doctor is not by any means the best field of medicine. And more importantly, it's not the best field of medicine for you. You may want to check out other fields such as being a nurse, which a lot of amazing people do. They're really smart and amazing at what they do. And I could not do my job without them. Things like being a physical therapist, occupational therapist, you know, you name it, speech, social work, respiratory therapy, being a physician assistant. There are so many fields in the healthcare industry that you should definitely take some time and just give some attention to. Because while it sounds nice and your family may be pressuring you, and you know, you may have friends that want to do it and they want to say, I want to become a doctor. And you just stop there. You don't give any appreciation or time or due diligence to other fields. But there are plenty of brilliant and really smart people doing other industries because certain qualities are more prominent in other fields. For example, you may want to become a people person. You love working with people. You want to provide bedside care, interact with the patients. The doctor doesn't always do that. You know, I spend maybe a few hours with my patients today and the nurse who took care of them spent several more than I did because she sat right outside the room, anything he needed she took care of. Understand what you value and definitely explore the different careers so you can understand what those values are in the first place. And then one more last tip guys is to just make sure you kind of engrossing yourself in the healthcare field. This includes things like just reading about it. You know, look at your New York Times articles, you know, daily news, see what healthcare related news shows up, see what medical news shows up. Do you enjoy it? And it goes back to the idea of, is this interesting? Can I see myself kind of reading about this on a regular? Because you will. Doctors and being in a medical field is a lifelong learning kind of career path. So if you can't you see yourself educating yourself on whatever you may be reading about, then it may not be this well for you. So keep yourself kind of engrossed, help news, amazing media and cases are some great ways to get some exposure and also build your interest. And finally guys, I want to close this video with a question. So if you're young, you're new in high school, you're watching this video, or maybe you're in college, you're considering going into medicine, I'm interested in making a series for you guys if you're interested. And it's literally going to be, you know, an MD or a doctor versus another healthcare profession. So maybe it'll be doctor versus nurse and I can tell you the pros and cons of each as well as get experts in each of those respective fields to kind of give me their insight. So if you're interested in a series like that, make sure you comment down below. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you also hit that like and subscribe button. But with that being said guys, we're going to end this video. Thank you so much for being a part of my journey. Hopefully, I was a little help on yours. I'll see you guys in the next one. Take care guys.