[A Must Read ] What You Need To Know Before Applying For Any Course In The University

Most times, children are forced by parents to study a course even when a child dislike it, this may be as a result of the fact that the course is lucrative or that it commands respect or that the parents are in competition with other friends or relatives whose children are studying that particular course. Medicine and Surgery is one of those courses that people value much in Nigeria and is envied by most; other professional courses such as Law, Pharmacy, Engineering etc have the same competition just as medicine does. The best you can do for your children is to guide them and explain the advantages and disadvantages of every field they want to study . This will enable the child to choose based on what he or she likes and therefore help the child and the society to become fulfilled in life and happy .
Most people push their children into medicine because they think it has the following benefits:
- Job security,
- Pays well
- There is prestige and respect in it since it is a noble profession

Using the above reasons to study Medicine and Surgery in Nigeria will lead to frustration because the child may not have passion for the course. This is because the challenges a child would face would make the child lost the zeal and love for the profession. If you want to study medicine, then you must have passion for it because if it is money, there are various ways to make money more than medicine and the richest man on earth is not a medical doctor, the richest in Africa is not a doctor and the richest in Nigeria is not a doctor either. If you go into medicine because of money, you will be disappointed because your friends that study different courses could make money more than you . This is one of the contributory factors to doctors , nurses, medical lab scientist, pharmacist and other health professionals complaining about low pay and would keep going on one strike to another because of unpaid salaries and allowances. I have not seen strike that was embarked by medical professionals that does not have salary or allowance as one of the factor; sometimes, they masked it with some issues to gain the love of the public but their inner primary issue would be salary, benefits and allowances. In fact if the government provides for the salary issue or allowances, the strikes are observed to be called off immediately even when other needs have not been made. Therefore, zeal for medicine is what should make you study it and not the money.

With these, I hope you should by now learn to make decisions for yourself, don't allow anyone to force you study what you don't have passion for. I'm not saying these because I'm not a medical doctor, it's just the fact. I'm Sarafa Abbas, please after reading click on the follow button below 👇.