From the perspective of employment, there is nothing wrong with studying medicine at any time, because medical students still have a large space for employment in various medical institutions at all levels.
However, not every level of medical students will have a career out of the medical profession in the future.
In my opinion, judging from the current situation, if you are studying clinical medicine in a junior college, you may face greater development problems in the future and may be greatly hindered in the job market.
The reason why there is not much way out for a college student majoring in clinical medicine is mainly due to the following reasons:
First, due to the large enrollment scale of undergraduate medical schools, the number of clinical medicine graduates with bachelor's degree or above is large, which squeezes the employment space of clinical medicine students at the junior college level.
According to the relevant statistics of the Ministry of Education, although the clinical medicine major belongs to the special enrollment control of the state, the annual enrollment plan is still as high as hundreds of thousands.
The reason why there is such a large enrollment scale is that, on the one hand, there are many medical colleges and universities in China, including traditional Chinese medicine colleges, medical universities, and many comprehensive universities offering medical majors.
In addition, some single-subject universities such as normal colleges have also opened medical schools and enrolled a larger number of medical students.
Under all equal conditions, medical institutions will definitely give preference to medical graduates with higher academic qualifications, because this will not only help the development of the hospital itself, but also be favored by patients.
In such a situation, clinical medicine graduates at the junior college level obviously cannot be compared with clinical medicine graduates at the undergraduate level, because the former are junior college students, and the latter are undergraduates, and under the same conditions, it is obvious that medical institutions are willing to recruit undergraduates.
Second, medical majors are easy to employ, but it does not mean that their employment process is easy, compared with clinical medicine graduates at the undergraduate level and above, clinical medicine graduates at the junior college level have to put in more effort to achieve the same level, which is not cost-effective.
Under normal circumstances, a medical student needs to go through at least 11 years of training to become a clinician after graduating from campus: 5 years of undergraduate, 3 years of master's degree, and 3 years of standardized residency training.
If you want to work in a hospital at or above the municipal level, you still have to study for a doctorate, and it will take at least 3 years.
In some places, in order to reduce the study time of medical students, standardized training for residents is carried out simultaneously for three years of master's students.
But no matter how you reduce the time, it will take nearly 10 years to really move from campus to society, from books to practice.
In addition, medicine is a profession that requires lifelong learning, and even after entering the workplace, it is necessary to take medical education every year and complete the corresponding continuing education credits.
Therefore, the employment process of medical students is still relatively complicated, and sometimes after more than 10 years of training, they may not be able to really enter the front-line clinical positions.
Compared with undergraduate medical graduates, college graduates who want to go through this stage must also go through the college upgrade, or work for 2 years before applying for on-the-job graduate school as a specialist.
However, at present, there are very few on-the-job medical graduate students, and many colleges and universities no longer recruit on-the-job graduate students in clinical medicine, resulting in the fact that junior medical graduates must pass the college upgrade and then take the postgraduate examination after being admitted to the undergraduate program.
Although this process does not add much time, it is more tortuous, requires more effort, and is not cost-effective.
After all, what you give is not necessarily proportional to what you get in the future.
Thirdly, the professional clinical medicine majors will be greatly restricted in the first degree in the future, which will affect the future career development.
As we all know, there are several areas in the society that attach great importance to the first degree, such as civil servants at and above the provincial level, education, foreign trade enterprises and medical institutions, which have relatively high requirements for the first degree.
If the first degree is a specialist working in a medical institution, it will inevitably affect the future career development, and the promotion and evaluation of professional titles will be affected to a certain extent.
For example, some hospitals have strictly controlled the evaluation of associate senior titles or above, and if they do not have a doctorate, they are not even qualified to participate in the evaluation.
When promoting middle-level cadres in medical institutions such as department directors, there are also corresponding academic requirements, which generally require a doctor or associate high school, which is a heavy blow to those who only have a junior college degree in the first degree.
To sum up, no matter from which aspect of comparison, it is not a good choice to study clinical medicine, and even if there is a way out in the future, it will inevitably encounter great difficulties.
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