Obje Plastic Surgery #Dr. Lee Gyeong-muk Is Private Tutoring Really Necessary for Medical School Admission?

Hello,

This is Obje Plastic Surgery.

Today, I’d like to talk with you about

something a little different from plastic surgery.

I’m sure this is an issue

that parents with middle and high school students

are all 고민하고 있을 something about.

It is the issue of 'private education.'

There was once a major controversy

in politics when it was said that

“the private education cartel will be eliminated,”

and there was also a case where

instructors in the Daechi-dong academy district

were subject to a tax audit.

Patients or acquaintances of mine

who have middle or high school children

often ask me this very question at least once.

“How should I prepare to send my child to medical school?”

“I’m thinking of sending my child to tutoring or an academy because of grades—how well do they need to study?”

“What kind of grades do they need from middle school to get into medical school?”

I see the private education cartel,

in other words,

the issues in the Daechi-dong academy district,

as ultimately being for the purpose of

getting into medical school.

These days, even elementary school students

are being separately recruited into medical school prep classes,

and just looking at the case of a friend’s child,

a second-year middle school student,

they were not thinking about which high school to enter,

but instead had medical school as their top priority goal.

From a parent’s perspective,

to meet their children’s needs,

they are paying a lot of money

for private education.

These days, it is truly unfortunate that

without private education,

simply keeping up faithfully with school classes

is not enough to keep up with the class level.

Will this reality

help the future of South Korea?

I can say without hesitation

that it will not help.

Because doctors are not a profession that increases our country’s GDP or anything like that.

Speaking from my personal experience,

when I was in middle school and high school,

my dream was not to become a doctor.

I did not even have the ability to get into medical school,

but as I retook the college entrance exam twice and then three times,

I gradually began to dream of becoming a doctor.

Of course, there were many people around me

who worked hard at private education from a young age

and even studied abroad,

but in reality,

those friends often failed in college admissions.

Of course, they were accepted into four-year universities in Seoul,

but people who go on to

what we commonly call Seoul National University or medical colleges

had, in my experience, nothing to do with

early overseas study or private education.

So what I want to tell you through this post is:

To the parents and students reading this,

if the only goal is admission to medical school,

in my personal opinion,

I don’t think there is a need to do advanced learning early on

or attend expensive academies.

Rather than that, I think it is better

to keep up with classes appropriate to your current age and grade.

Because in my case,

even in high school I was not the type who studied especially well.

It was only after retaking the college entrance exam twice and three times

that I began to dream of becoming a doctor,

and I ended up going to medical school in my 30s.

Also, among people around me,

I saw cases where someone studied too much from the early middle and high school years,

and by around senior year of high school,

they no longer wanted to study at all.

They were a friend who could have gone to SKY,

but in the end they lost their pace

and were unable to enter the SKY university they had wanted.

Therefore, rather than pushing yourself too hard

with advanced study while looking only toward medical school admission,

if you steadily study at a level suited to your own ability

and do your best,

I think that when you enter high school,

it will become much easier to

absorb new information and learn.

Even at this very moment, there are students

studying late into the night at academies.

They may be able to rank first in their class for now,

but they may not be able to finish the more important marathon.

In the end, the timing when we need to decide the outcome is 'senior year of high school.'

Whether you are aiming for medical school or SKY,

if you want good results,

you must remember that the one year of senior year in high school is the most important!

Of course, the basics of Korean, English, and math

should not fall behind others.

I am absolutely not saying that you should

start from scratch only when the time comes.

What I do want to tell you for sure is

that you should not study in a way that causes overload.

Obje Plastic Surgery is also visited by many parents

who have children.

I hope this post today will be very helpful

for those of you who have been worrying a lot

about your children’s school admission or academics.