Gap year timing

[PhysicianScientist]

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Hi all,

So if I've been offered a one year research fellowship for my gap year (I am planning to matriculate in 2016), and if this fellowship starts in September of 2015, am I able to accept it? If it lasts 1 year, it will not end until September of 2016 and I am assuming most medical schools start before September right? What should I do in this situation?

 

[Ismet]

Talk to your contact person about the fellowship, explain the situation. If you are bound to 1 year, then decline the fellowship. Most med schools start in July or August.

 

[Doogie17]

since your user name is PhysicianScientist, if you are trying to do md/phd, then the md/phd programs I know about start in June with research before M1 starts in August.

 

[palatopharyngeus]

Hi all,

So if I've been offered a one year research fellowship for my gap year (I am planning to matriculate in 2016), and if this fellowship starts in September of 2015, am I able to accept it? If it lasts 1 year, it will not end until September of 2016 and I am assuming most medical schools start before September right? What should I do in this situation?

im curious to know which idiot decided that September to September would be a good timeframe for the fellowship

 

[PhysicianScientist]

I hope the summer before M1 is optional for research for MD/PhD. I certainly hope they don't require one to research in the summer

 

[Ismet]

I hope the summer before M1 is optional for research for MD/PhD. I certainly hope they don't require one to research in the summer

It's usually not optional from my understanding. You have to do research over the summer between M1/M2, too.

 

[PhysicianScientist]

It's usually not optional from my understanding. You have to do research over the summer between M1/M2, too.

do you think it is possible I would be able to negotiate out of the research if I already have significant experience and multiple publications? this is going to screw up all my plans if I have to start in like April when I was counting on starting in late July or August...

 

[Ismet]

do you think it is possible I would be able to negotiate out of the research if I already have significant experience and multiple publications? this is going to screw up all my plans if I have to start in like April when I was counting on starting in late July or August...

Uhh...if you don't want to do research then don't do MD/PhD. You can do research with just an MD. Everyone who gets accepted to an MD/PhD program already has significant research experience and publications, you're not going to get an exception if they require it. And no one said anything about starting in April, that's not even summer. MSTPs at my school start in June.

 

[ladyterp]

I applied/was accepted MD/PhD this cycle. The schools have varying amount of "required" research the summer before med school (after that it's non negotiable). Some programs 100% require it, some will grant exceptions on a case-by-case basis, and some strongly encourage, but don't require, that summer. I'd talk to your fellowship about it first and see what you could work out. Regardless, the latest med schools start late August, so you'd need some leeway. Good luck OP!

 

[PhysicianScientist]

Uhh...if you don't want to do research then don't do MD/PhD. You can do research with just an MD. Everyone who gets accepted to an MD/PhD program already has significant research experience and publications, you're not going to get an exception if they require it. And no one said anything about starting in April, that's not even summer. MSTPs at my school start in June.

Thanks for the info. It's not that I don't want to do research, it is that I will already be doing research over the summer before M1 because of my fellowship. I will have to stop doing research in my fellowship early to leave and go to the MSTP program's campus to start doing research there which will likely lower my productivity.

 

[PhysicianScientist]

I applied/was accepted MD/PhD this cycle. The schools have varying amount of "required" research the summer before med school (after that it's non negotiable). Some programs 100% require it, some will grant exceptions on a case-by-case basis, and some strongly encourage, but don't require, that summer. I'd talk to your fellowship about it first and see what you could work out. Regardless, the latest med schools start late August, so you'd need some leeway. Good luck OP!

Thanks for the information and congrats on the acceptance!