# Advice Sought for an Aspiring MD

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-sought-for-an-aspiring-md/608274>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 3, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-sought-for-an-aspiring-md/608274 "2012-01-03T18:03:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-sought-for-an-aspiring-md/608274/41 "2012-01-05T04:18:39Z")

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> **[Student Doctor Network Communities](https://forums.studentdoctor.net/forums/)**
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> A nonprofit community of pre-health and health professional students.

They even have an entire sub-forum for military medicine.

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**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-sought-for-an-aspiring-md/608274/42 "2012-01-05T05:02:29Z")

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:smack: Sorry, I missed lavenderviolet’s post the first time around.

BTW, it’s a bit of a tangent, but it is no longer true that vet school is more competitive than med school. About half of students who apply to vet school will get in to an accredited school (and for learning to be a small animal vet, where you go is not very important in terms of job outlook, etc.), but since most students apply to multiple schools, the numbers look worse than they actually are. That’s on par with or less competitive than med school applicants.

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