Med student hates medicine, wants career change to business/finance, no experience though, feel stuck?

Finished 1st year of med school. Had an easy time because I'm smart, learn easily and am great at taking tests. Medicine sucks though as I'm not gaining any universal skills and am far more interested in business, mainly finance and perhaps entrepreneurship one day. I have burning ambition and great desire to become wealthy and powerful. Fun and lifestyle are unimportant to me right now; I can work like hell and study or take courses on my own to make up for my...

--lack of experience, here is the crux. I have strong academic credentials and stellar test scores but no practical experience outside of nerdy things like lab research and premed internship programs. I feel like I gleaned little from them and I hated doing them. I shouldn't have entered medicine but fam pressured for it, now I'm thinking I may rebel and say I've had enough.

I would like to attend a top MBA school asap and ascend the ladder very quickly. Basically I'm just venting here--any career changers out there?

Whether you go for an MBA or enter the workforce, I'm sure you'll find plenty of opportunity. You're probably in your early 20s, which means you could easily apply for a position at a large financial institution -- think investment banking at Goldman Sachs. They take on people like you all the time - whether a student did a liberal arts degree undergrad or a business degree, the larger firms all have excellent training programs where they are looking for "athletes" - people who are smart and will work hard; they will teach you what you may have missed in an undergrad business program.

Wealthy and powerful, and you don't care about lifestyle in the near-term - go be an investment banker.

I know several people that either were pre-med undergrads or went to med school but made a move into finance. If you actually like the healthcare industry, that could be a big plus too - plenty of opportunities in IB or equity research for people that have some understanding of the field

Holy cow...you're sitting on a gold mine

You need to finish your med school. Then if you don't want to be a doctor, start applying to become a biotech/pharma research analyst at funds and banks.

As you probably know, most people on wall street are mbas. Any advantage over them in your specific field will bring in money. If you make some good calls on whether drugs will be passed by the FDA, you'll be a millionaire in no time.