It will be impressive and give you superpowers in the medical field. And being able to connect it with medicine on apps, or demonstrate insight into how you may use your talent in CS to be someone who moves the field forward, could be a major selling point for you.
No. I have had many research ideas that I simply couldn't do because of my lack of CS background. And it's an easy way to snag a tech-related leadership position as clinical faculty in fields like medicine. Like there's a medicine attending with a small CS background who puts requested macros and such into the EMR. Probably takes 2-3 minutes, but everyone thinks he's a genius.
I learned to put macros into epic as a scribe. Clinic I worked for had dedicated Epic tech for any questions or learning how to make macros. You don't need a degree in CS for that. Research is different and knowing how to mine data can help, however, I don't think that a medical school will look at someone who got a master's in computer science with no further medically related coursework and believe they genuinely have an interest in medicine, unless of course their thesis or something focused on doing something computer sciencey for a hospital. I had a friend work for Epic before applying to medical school. Currently he's a 2nd year neurosurg.
Perhaps macro is the wrong term. Sorry for the confusion. Interesting points. My friend is going into neurosurgery. Intense field.
