Biomedical engineering after residency!

[Amad]

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Hi all, what are your thoughts about getting into a graduate level biomedical engineering program MS/PhD. I finished a residency in internal medicine and about to finish a 2 year fellowship but I feel I'm more into medical technology than seeing patients in a clinic for the rest of my life! I feel I want to be part of research & development or cutting edge changes in medicine! At the same time, I know things look " green and rosy" on the other side of the fence despite that it may not be the fact! I would like to hear from you if you have any experience or thoughts about this. Thank you all.

 

[ThoracicGuy]

Hi all, what are your thoughts about getting into a graduate level biomedical engineering program MS/PhD. I finished a residency in internal medicine and about to finish a 2 year fellowship but I feel I'm more into medical technology than seeing patients in a clinic for the rest of my life! I feel I want to be part of research & development or cutting edge changes in medicine! At the same time, I know things look " green and rosy" on the other side of the fence despite that it may not be the fact! I would like to hear from you if you have any experience or thoughts about this. Thank you all.

Your clinical skills will get really rusty really quick if you do this...

I vote no.

 

[PTPoeny]

You may be able to do a fellowship and do research in medical engineering as your academic project if you don't want to get it out of clinical medicine completely.

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[galactus]

Hi all, what are your thoughts about getting into a graduate level biomedical engineering program MS/PhD. I finished a residency in internal medicine and about to finish a 2 year fellowship but I feel I'm more into medical technology than seeing patients in a clinic for the rest of my life! I feel I want to be part of research & development or cutting edge changes in medicine! At the same time, I know things look " green and rosy" on the other side of the fence despite that it may not be the fact! I would like to hear from you if you have any experience or thoughts about this. Thank you all.

One of my biomedical engineering professors in undergrad is a practicing ophthalmologist. He has a MS degree, titled as an endowed professor (from research/MD practice), but had a research lab and a medical practice going on at the same time. Long story short - I've personally seen it work. His work had some to do with..ready? Lasers

 

[Igor4sugry]

Hi all, what are your thoughts about getting into a graduate level biomedical engineering program MS/PhD. I finished a residency in internal medicine and about to finish a 2 year fellowship but I feel I'm more into medical technology than seeing patients in a clinic for the rest of my life! I feel I want to be part of research & development or cutting edge changes in medicine! At the same time, I know things look " green and rosy" on the other side of the fence despite that it may not be the fact! I would like to hear from you if you have any experience or thoughts about this. Thank you all.

If you wanted to be an engineer, this is a decision that should've been done nine years ago. Biomedical companies need strong engineers with strong technical skills. They do not really need physicians who then went to engineering school. Sometimes physicians partner up with start ups as advisers or those who will be Helping develop the product into next phase of development.

I don't see how this has to do with Grass being greener on the other side. If you do MS PhD that's another five or six years so you have a total of 15 years of training post undergrad. It certainly is not a good use of your time in terms of needing to save for retirement or getting a return on investment of your education. You will face in biomedical engineering strong competition from young undergrads or a recent grads in their early 20s. What does your spouse think of this?

There's a place for everything but doing an MS PhD in engineering after medical training in my mind does not make sense. Unless you have some ideas some innovative things you want to develop this will be just more wasting your time in this indecision mode that many trainees are in.

 

[ToldYouSo]

Hi all, what are your thoughts about getting into a graduate level biomedical engineering program MS/PhD. I finished a residency in internal medicine and about to finish a 2 year fellowship but I feel I'm more into medical technology than seeing patients in a clinic for the rest of my life! I feel I want to be part of research & development or cutting edge changes in medicine! At the same time, I know things look " green and rosy" on the other side of the fence despite that it may not be the fact! I would like to hear from you if you have any experience or thoughts about this. Thank you all.

UCLA has a program where they combine residency or fellowship training with a phd degree. Maybe other schools have offer it as well: http://medschool.ucla.edu/star-about-star

Seems like a really cool idea for people getting into research later on

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[physicsnerd42]

http://biodesign.stanford.edu/programs/fellowships/innovation-fellowships.html

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