• Question: How long did it take you to get to the point you are right now?

    Asked by anon-175894 to Ella, Alex, Alison, David on 11 Jun 2018. This question was also asked by anon-175293, anon-175286.
    • Photo: Ella Mercer

      Ella Mercer answered on 11 Jun 2018:

      I’ve just turned 24. I left school when I was 16 and went to college until I was 18. Then I took a gap year and travelled around Asia by myself. I went to University when I was 19 for 4 years. I started my PhD last September and will study for that until 2021 … then, who knows! I’m still an young scientist with lots of learning to do!

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      Alex Alamri answered on 12 Jun 2018:

      Quite a long time!

      I went to medical school when I was 18 and spent 6 years there.

      After that I spent 2 years as a doctor working in Cambridge and then I spent a year teaching anatomy at King’s College London.

      I trained as a general surgeon for one year and then managed to get a training job in neurosurgery after that.

      I’m almost 4 years into my neurosurgery training now and it’s a total of 8 years of training!

      I’m 31 now…

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      David Mills answered on 12 Jun 2018:

      Quite a long time.
      After school I spent 3 years getting by BSc degree. This was followed by 2 years of postgrad work, then 3 years getting my PhD. After this I spent a year working building microscopes to look at brain cells in great detail. I then spent two years working on a project to develop cheap and disposable water purity sensors for use in rural India.
      I’ve now spent 9 years working with CT scanners.

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