MD/MS Program

[therunner12]

I'm new so sorry if this has already been answered...

I want to apply to a few MD/MS programs. My stats are good enough to get into the medical schools but I'm not sure if the MD/MS program will be more selective. Does anyone know?

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[Ombret]

A decent MD candidate will usually be a decent MD/MS candidate. It is just not that selective. The main bottleneck is that you need to prove you know enough about research to commit to doing a year or two of lab work full-time.

I personally think an MS year is a great experience for just about anybody in medicine and this pathway has been sorely underutilized, so good for you for considering it. Having done some research in a systematic way makes you a much better consumer of scientific data in your future career. And the MS gives you some credentials for your own future research if you should want to go that way.