It is sooo weird that you brought up this point, because I am in a similar situation myself. I have been accepted to med school, but now I am considering a PhD or a masters in English. Everyone in the world has been basically trying to tell me that I am crazy to give up being a doctor for English, and some people have asked me if I could do both. I didn't know about these programs so thanks for those!!!! I don't know what I am going to do either
hahahah. that is so weird and great at the same time! actually, i have some time because i'm a 2nd year bio sci and english double major, but i just want to get as much education in before i go off to the medical missionary field. i know that once i go out there, there will be almost no time to actually study something on my own free time.
and honestly, i don't think it's crazy. some ppl are telling me that why you want to do this? are you unsure about being a doctor?
hahaha, that has to be the funniest thing, or the most ironic. i have always wanted to be a doctor, and i am most undoubtedly sure i want to be and will plan to stick to becoming a doctor than they will EVER want to. but english is one of those few passions that i have, and i do want to write novels and poetry and such in the future about my experiences in the missionary field.
i'm still looking, and i did find some recent threads, esp. an important one on the aamc site that showed all the md/phd programs (this not being only the med scientist programs) and i was hindsighted by not paying attention to the english phd programs but only the MPH programs out there cause i want to do a MD/MPH for sure!
well, if anyone can help out these people who use "both sides of their brain", that would be helpful! thanks a lot for those who responded and hopefully we humanities and science people can show those strictly science people that there is much more than a double bond