Dentistry or Medicine

Thread Starter Dentistry or Medicine Follow 47 minutes ago 47m ago Hiya! So I'm currently studying in Year 12 (it's summer holidays now) and due to move up to Year 13 this coming September. I've always been a fairly science oriented person, and Med/Dent seemed like a natural course to go into. Over this past year I've been leaning a lot more towards dentistry, and most of my extracurriculars surround dentistry. However, fairly recently, I've done an Obs and Gynae placement in a hospital, and now I'm really struggling to decide between the two. Not that one area is better than the other, but personally I found it much more emotionally fulfilling to actually be able to care for and interact with patients in hospital during ward rounds. You get the opportunity to stay with a patient for extended periods of time and build up a much more personal relationship with them. On the other hand, my 2 weeks spent in two dental practices did...
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