So I just read through this Swiss forum (link in the title) where a kid was asking for help on how to go about studying Medicine in Switzerland. Now granted he had a few misguided notions that deterred him from wanting to study in England, not to mention most of his reasons for wanting to study in Switzerland were quite weak. The few good ones (arguable nonetheless) however include; the pay in England being awful, the Swiss having a better quality of life and the extortionately high English tax rates.
It was quite funny reading how people were trying at first to subtly shift him off his path, when that didn’t work they were basically telling him in quite kind words (considering this is the internet) that he was wrong. Even with this there were a few alternatives put forward as to how he could still achieve his goal, but to be honest, studying medicine as a foreign student is very difficult (nigh impossible). The reason for this is as one of the people on the forum said “Getting one new doctor out there costs 300,000- or thereabout! That’s an insanely huge cost! The state pays for it because it’s a worthwhile investment, but that’s only if the new doctor stays in Switzerland, and the risk of seeing that new doctor leave the country is higher with foreign students…”.
Now considering that I’ve also had somewhat of the same dream as him – though I’d firstly like to study in England then hopefully practice in Switzerland – this kid has made it painfully obvious that I definitely need to do way more research before I even begin to spout the contents of my willful thinking. As such my next post on any other future plans of mine will be well researched before I lay out hypothetical plans on how to go about bringing it to fruition.
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