AMCAS Ph.d options

[kgboy]

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On the AMCAS application, the section where we indicate medical schools we're applying to says that I must choose a Ph.d program (i.e. microbiology, physiology, immunology, etc.). I'm a little confused since I have not decided which field of research I will choose (though I have several in my mind). I guess I should click on every one of them I am interested in, but does this mean that I can't change my decision later on during the application cycle?

 

[Oak]

Don't worry about it - just check a few things that seem mildly interesting. You may have to write a bit about what you are interested on some secondaries, but it's usually not very much. When you are invited for interviews, each school will ask you for a list of PIs that you'd like to talk to, but even these decisions aren't binding in any way. Everywhere I interviewed the MST program let their students choose their graduate group based upon their changing interests while in med school.

 

[dr.z]

Pick one that is at the present time more interesting to you. You can always change your mind once school starts and get to know the research programs in each department.