Another thing to consider after you get your education is where do you want to work? When life is found on another planet, an astronaut with an MD-PhD specializing in infectious diseases might be on the crew. ", New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I am interested in MD/PhD, but concerned about my GPA. Combined MD-PhD degree programs provide students the opportunity to earn both the MD and the PhD in areas pertinent to medicine. Moreover, getting funding to pay for both your MD/PhD and getting all that training is a good deal if that's the career you want. If money, see above. Doing a PhD gives you the skills to run a lab without having to pick it up as you go along, and you get to acquire those skills for free. In interview is another matter: some progs may have more of a thing for your willingness to say, point blank, “MD/PhD is the only/perfect path for me / I plan to re-apply if I don’t get MD/PhD specifically.”, Depending on how much you really want to do it / would be okay with MD-only, I’d recommend ticking the aforementioned box on all or at least most of your apps and/or applying to some MD-only progs. The reason they do both degrees is so they can do lab research AND see patients, which is especially important for research topics that are translational in nature (i.e bench-to-bedside approach). One of my buddies is an attending and he was telling me most of the clinicians (and he's at a huge academic center where almost everyone is involved in some sort of research) they refer to the MD/PhDs as lab rats lol. So the real benefit of getting an MD-PhD is opening more options to do and study what you want. While MDs can certainly have a research oriented career and even run their own labs, do entirely research, etc. Well, I'm lodging a complaint about another doctor who doctored some docs. By graduation, you’ll have fulfilled requirements for both the MD and PhD degrees. If prestige, yes, people respect you a lot for doing it (if you're male - I'm female, the response has been 50/50 for me). What is the real benefit of pursuing an MD/PhD if an MD can still do research? Recently accepted MD/PhD applicant here. I got some usable research skills that I could very well use later in life, so that's nice. save. That's kind of the point... it's giving you the tools to actually run your own lab and be extremely involved in research to the point where most of your duties are usually research. Am I a humanities major? This was in December, so decently late in the game to hit the MD only desk. programs separately from MD programs look unfavorably at applicants who wish to be considered for both MD and MD/Ph.D.? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I’m now in an MSTP. After working with her, I couldn't imagine ever needing a PhD to get where you wanted in research. If that doesn't bother you, then that's great! It's fine to check that box IMO, but keep in mind that often by the time they stop considering you for an MD/PhD interview it will be too late in the cycle for you to be seriously considered for MD. I actually just had dinner with someone who is in an MD/PhD program and turns out we're both in the final year of our PhD part of our programs. I imagine they were between a couple candidates for their last few interview spots and were only going to offer it to people who they thought would matriculate if they were accepted. I'm friends with several of the MD/PhDs in my class, and all of them seem to be working on very solid, worthwhile projects that will take as long as a standard PhD to complete. I did research for a bada$$ MD who has labs all over the world and is a professor at three different schools (internationally). Reddit's home for wholesome discussion related to pre-medical studies. I am not a fan of their programs overall. If absolutely yes, MD/PhD is the way to go. Also they were likely evaluating where I stood on the spectrum in question - something that I guess my prog, specifically, does care about. Tldr; do I want to be PI? Research focus for MD/PhD is more likely to lean towards basic research compared to straight MD. I will graduate with a 3.7 gpa and I have strong clinical experience and EC’s. Medicine is very rigid with what you study, and a lot of times, things are taken for granted as saying "This is how it is." I’m now in an MSTP. Press J to jump to the feed. There are a number of programs which I and other applicants (SDN thread, discord server, and local friends) have heard nothing good nor bad from. Having a PhD will significantly up your odds of being one of the people who gets it, though of course it guarantees nothing. This is the route that MD/PhD is designed to take you. A few things to think about: How competitive of an applicant am I? And now I'm gonna riff on this. Is an MD-PhD Program right for you? That's an interesting situation. I met somebody recently who didn't realize this: not one of the people interviewed with was not a hard science/engineering major, unless they were applying for PhD in anthro or something, which there may be 10 seats in the country for. Couple of my friends are in that path and their training in research is crazy good. Do I have a decent chance at programs with good computational biology programs (Like CalTech/Kaiser)? For MD it doesn't matter, and it probably helps to have a different perspective/higher GPA (not hating, based on statistics). 1 comment. However, MD/PhD's are better suited for lab research than MD only researchers. MD/PhD is a very long road but the training and the tuition benefits set you up to be more likely to be successful (no guarantee you'll be able to make it as independent investigator, even then - funding has been dry and will continue to be dry). The other con is that MD/PhD training is LONG. It’s my understanding that if you have an II, your stats are good enough for that school. There are lots of jobs that getting this degree would make you more competitive and well-suited for. 100 hours shadowing a neurosurgeon, oral research presentation at CNS 2018 conference, poster presentation at CNS 2019, 2 years as a computer science research intern at UCSF, 9th author on publication for my lab at UCSF, currently consulting with a neurotech company on VR (not neuralink lol), 40 hours working for DeepScribe as a scribe (stopped after 40 hours due to COVID). The prog I’m currently in actually sent me a kind of shady ultimatum called “waitlisted for interview”: at this time, choose to continue being considered for MSTP but MSTP only, or be moved to the MD only pile.

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