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Currently doing a Bachelor of Western Herbal Medicine in which you also study anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology and pathology. So I'm dreaming of getting into graduate medicine after I get my undergrad. I quite like the idea of being a physician-scientist, splitting my career between clinical practice and cutting edge research. I'm pretty sure I want to do radiology. It'd be better to do a PhD along with the medical degree and get both in say 6 years rather than doing the medical degree for 4 years and then having to spend 3 years if lucky, more likely 4 years away from medicine to do the PhD.
UQ explicitly offers an 'intercalated' MBBS/PhD over 6 years. Coming out with a medical degree and a PhD in 6 years sounds like a pretty good deal when you consider that many MBBS programmes around the world take 6 years. Ok sure, first you have to have an undergraduate degree and then an honours degree... but the more knowledge, the better, right? Knowledge is power.
But I've heard that UQ has a reputation for skipping a lot of the basic sciences in their MBBS.
Since the other universities don't explicitly list any MBBS or MD/PhD programmes, I thought I'd ask around. Is this possible to do? I see the University of Sydney has currently has opportunities to do a PhD in Radiology. Let's say they still do when it comes time to apply for medical school, if I got into the University of Sydney would I be able to do their medical degree and a PhD over 6 years?
It'd be great to hear from anybody who has done a PhD alongside their medical degree.
Thanks!
UQ explicitly offers an 'intercalated' MBBS/PhD over 6 years. Coming out with a medical degree and a PhD in 6 years sounds like a pretty good deal when you consider that many MBBS programmes around the world take 6 years. Ok sure, first you have to have an undergraduate degree and then an honours degree... but the more knowledge, the better, right? Knowledge is power.
But I've heard that UQ has a reputation for skipping a lot of the basic sciences in their MBBS.
Since the other universities don't explicitly list any MBBS or MD/PhD programmes, I thought I'd ask around. Is this possible to do? I see the University of Sydney has currently has opportunities to do a PhD in Radiology. Let's say they still do when it comes time to apply for medical school, if I got into the University of Sydney would I be able to do their medical degree and a PhD over 6 years?
It'd be great to hear from anybody who has done a PhD alongside their medical degree.
Thanks!