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Hello,
I thought it might be nice to have a thread for those of us who have gone and done the silly thing of doing the PhD before medical school. For some of us, this was a decision to seize an opportunity and for others it was a discovery of the love of medicine during the PhD. At any rate, the reasons why not to go this route have been thoroughly discussed, but for those of us applying now I thought it might be nice to have a little support group. Potentially throw out any bizarre interview questions you might find or express your anxieties about applying with the PhD in hand (or almost in hand...). I, for one, am anxious about the extent to which my major clinical volunteering was pre-PhD. Oh, and of course I'm stressed about writing the thesis ATM. Hopefully, we can just have a bit of social thread running as the application process feels a bit weird in this position (much as it does for many non-trads) and it might be nice to have a forum for folks in similar positions much as our esteemed peers, the RNs, do.
EDIT. typo
I thought it might be nice to have a thread for those of us who have gone and done the silly thing of doing the PhD before medical school. For some of us, this was a decision to seize an opportunity and for others it was a discovery of the love of medicine during the PhD. At any rate, the reasons why not to go this route have been thoroughly discussed, but for those of us applying now I thought it might be nice to have a little support group. Potentially throw out any bizarre interview questions you might find or express your anxieties about applying with the PhD in hand (or almost in hand...). I, for one, am anxious about the extent to which my major clinical volunteering was pre-PhD. Oh, and of course I'm stressed about writing the thesis ATM. Hopefully, we can just have a bit of social thread running as the application process feels a bit weird in this position (much as it does for many non-trads) and it might be nice to have a forum for folks in similar positions much as our esteemed peers, the RNs, do.
EDIT. typo