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While I know there is a difference in curriculum between medical school and grad school for subjects like physiology or chemistry, which is harder?
Harder to get into or harder to complete the degree?While I know there is a difference in curriculum between medical school and grad school for subjects like physiology or chemistry, which is harder?
harder to get the degree i.e. course rigorHarder to get into or harder to complete the degree?
harder to get the degree i.e. course rigor
Med school is light years harder!While I know there is a difference in curriculum between medical school and grad school for subjects like physiology or chemistry, which is harder?
While I know there is a difference in curriculum between medical school and grad school for subjects like physiology or chemistry, which is harder?
In some ways the training portions are mirror images of each other. Good grad students and post-doc are hard to find, while med schools applicants and graduates are in surplus. Hence, you get paid to go to grad school (and even have your way to interviews paid for), and you get to pick where to go for post-grad training (they pay your way to interviews for that too) . There is no debt after this either. Getting the job after that is the hard part!First of all, comparing apples to oranges.
Second, if you like what you're doing and have a genuine interest in it then it won't feel so hard. Whereas if you hate it it will feel like worse than death.
The main differences between the two just looking at it generally is that medicine is a set period of training with a guaranteed job with decent pay at the end of your training. PhD can be more ambiguous in the length of training with the possibility of multiple post-docs that you have to do even after that training. Job prospect is also worse as breaking into industry is very difficult and breaking into academia with all its Game of Thrones-esque intrigues even more so.
I still don't know how med students do it. Having taught students at both MD and DO schools, all I can tell you is this is what med school would have done to me:
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I actually asked this question on here along time ago, but are there some "type-B" students in medical school and do they fare well among the group?Also, the types of students are very different between MD and PHD. MD students are very type A and competitive. During a TBL session in med school where the professors asked a question, and whichever group got it right got extra credit, the MD students were all fighting to be called on first, and also trying to argue that other students were wrong. One professor said "if this was the PHD students, they'd calmly be discussing the question instead of fighting for points".
I'm probably a type B personality, but I go to a low-ranked med school. The situation I described was at my SMP, which was at a more competitive school than I'm at now (and didn't get into). I think there would be a pretty obvious correlation between school competitiveness and the competitiveness of their students. It also depends on your goals in med school. If you're not gunning for AOA and a super-competitive residency, you could probably relax some.I actually asked this question on here along time ago, but are there some "type-B" students in medical school and do they fare well among the group?
Also, the types of students are very different between MD and PHD. MD students are very type A and competitive. During a TBL session in med school where the professors asked a question, and whichever group got it right got extra credit, the MD students were all fighting to be called on first, and also trying to argue that other students were wrong. One professor said "if this was the PHD students, they'd calmly be discussing the question instead of fighting for points".
I actually asked this question on here along time ago, but are there some "type-B" students in medical school and do they fare well among the group?
I actually asked this question on here along time ago, but are there some "type-B" students in medical school and do they fare well among the group?