Which is harder Medicine or Engineering

[EndDomination]

This is a weird question because "medicine" isn't an undergraduate major, its a field that encompasses everything from being a physician/surgeon, to a nurse, to a PA.
Engineering is the same way, there is a world of difference between civil engineering and electrical engineering.
I'd say the Physical Sciences are easier than undergraduate engineering majors, but that medical school is more time-consuming than a graduate engineering program, just based on the sheer amount of information you're required to absorb.
Being a physician/surgeon is more difficult than being an engineer, easily.
And nursing is both an easy major, and a difficult job physically because of the long hours, but fairly easy intellectually.

 

[funkee]

my mom tried to argue with me that medicine is harder than engineering

i told her to walk into my university and say that watch all the profs eat her alive

I did both after graduating EE and ended up in medical school. medicine is definitely harder.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

organic chem,biochem,cell bio..........


A lot of engineers I knew in undergraduate, struggled with chem101 like you wouldn't believe
Difficulty is relative....

I passed chem101 easily

If you a chemical engineer and can't pass chem101

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

This is a weird question because "medicine" isn't an undergraduate major, its a field that encompasses everything from being a physician/surgeon, to a nurse, to a PA.
Engineering is the same way, there is a world of difference between civil engineering and electrical engineering.
I'd say the Physical Sciences are easier than undergraduate engineering majors, but that medical school is more time-consuming than a graduate engineering program, just based on the sheer amount of information you're required to absorb.
Being a physician/surgeon is more difficult than being an engineer, easily.
And nursing is both an easy major, and a difficult job physically because of the long hours, but fairly easy intellectually.

Well thought out

 

[GzUp]

I did both after graduating EE and ended up in medical school. medicine is definitely harder.

I have a friend that did both but I never asked him which was harder, I want to say nursing was cuz of the time it takes.. 5 hour lectures 3 days a week and having a test every time u are there plus a non stop lecture which feels like we are always behind in.. u never have time to study. Impossible to work and do the program.

 

[Jesus]

Medicine, and I work as an analyst with engineers and computer scientist...

 

[Serious]

I passed chem101 easily

If you a chemical engineer and can't pass chem101

I saw it happen
These cats were math savants but struggled like hell with balancing equations and stoichiometry. Easy is relative though, a lot shyt depends on the professor and how rigorous they want it to be.
Unfortunately I had a professor for general chem that didn't do that whole multiple choice shyt, like the other professor at my school:
http://ars-chemia.net/Classes/101/Problems/Practice Final Exam.pdf
http://ars-chemia.net/Classes/102/Problem_Sets/C102_practice_Final.pdf

now tell me this shyt is a breeze......

 

[funkee]

I have a friend that did both but I never asked him which was harder, I want to say nursing was cuz of the time it takes.. 5 hour lectures 3 days a week and having a test every time u are there plus a non stop lecture which feels like we are always behind in.. u never have time to study. Impossible to work and do the program.

for me, medical school was not just hardest b/c of the content, but b/c of the cost both financially and personally. You basically have to be willing to give up your 20s, take on massive loans, and lose years of income earning potential just to make it to residency and slave away for another 3-7 yrs before seeing any financial reward. Sometimes I look back and think about what could be if I have pushed harder to find an engineering job or gone to grad school rather than pursuing medicine as a backup. Life could be worse though, I get to help people and can provide for my family

 

[Dr. Acula]

Do engineers need to pass classes with at least 75%?

Anything less is a fail for us.

At my school, you can't advance in most courses unless you get a C at least.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

I saw it happen
These cats were math savants but struggled like hell with balancing equations and stoichiometry. Easy is relative though, a lot shyt depends on the professor and how rigorous they want it to be.
Unfortunately I had a professor for general chem that didn't do that whole multiple choice shyt, like the other professor at my school:
http://ars-chemia.net/Classes/101/Problems/Practice Final Exam.pdf
http://ars-chemia.net/Classes/102/Problem_Sets/C102_practice_Final.pdf

now tell me this shyt is a breeze......

seems like the test i took back in the day but last i took chem was in 2012

 

[GzUp]

At my school, you can't advance in most courses unless you get a C at least.

Nursing right?

I think less then 85 was considered a c for us and anything less then 75 was a fail.

Psychologicaly it puts a lot of pressure.

 

[mamba]

As an Engineering Grad id say Medicine and your starting salaries prove it

Salary is no measure of rigor.

Private Equity salaries shyt on both engineering and medicine if we're going to keep it 100%!

Medicine takes a lot more sacrifice and dedication over an extended period of time to complete. As people have described, you basically give up your 20s to study medicine. And, depending on the discipline, medicine is the more demanding profession.

But, from a pure academic perspective, engineering is more difficult to study than medicine.

All things equal, if you had to go to school for 8-12 years just to become an engineer, how many engineers do you think we'd have? I'd suspect we'd have very few in society! Most people would not be able to cut it, academically.

 

[Tropical Fantasy]

Just based on academics, engineering is considerably more difficult. Math and science classes are the main reason people switch from pre med. If you're not good at math and physics, there is no way you'll survive undergrad as an engineering major.

Medicine is the more rigorous field just based on the amount of information you're expected to know. But the material isn't that hard to learn, you just have to train your mind to process large amounts of info. I used to work at my uni's health science library ( library mainly for medical students). They amount of info they have to learn is fukking insane. Like an entire undergad semester worth of material just for 1 class

 

[King of Creampies]

my mom tried to argue with me that medicine is harder than engineering

i told her to walk into my university and say that watch all the profs eat her alive

I would say neither is hard. Having the discipline to see either program through is the most difficult of all things.

 

[ace416]

I think its more fair to compare a doctorate/phd in engineering vs medicine.