[TZubiri]

Getting year 1 or 2 of medicine in, in addition to providing good general knowledge, would be a good insurance bet, if you ever, or a loved one has an uncurable disease, you can spend your life trying to cure it, and you have 1 or 2 years of advantage.

Pretty sure that studying a career with such a specific objective in mind will have a much more useful effect in hyperspecialized branches (so not Primary Care) than studying generally out of school and only picking your branch a couple of months before it is required. You absorb the general knowledge with in the context of your specialization.

[GuB-42]

Isn't year 1 or 2 of medicine just about knowing general facts about the body? Like the names of muscle and bones. Actually treating diseases coming much later, and practical knowledge is mostly learned as an intern.

All that to say that doing 1 year of med-school may not be that useful unless you intend to do 10 more and become an actual doctor. Maybe nursing would be a better bet: shorter studies, and more practical.

[TZubiri]

"Like the names of muscle and bones"

Yeah, and veins and bodies, a lot of them.

But that's just 1 subject, anatomy. Pretty sure there's other useful subjects. And there's also the benefits not from the actual knowledge gained, but by the ability to learn higher order subjects, since they may have dependencies, you can probably orient learning towards the parts of the body affected.

The nurse idea is pretty good. Same with imaging technician. I'd venture a guess that there's a lot of year 1 and year 2 subjects that would be equivalent.