MT to MD (or DO)

[Matt0351]

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I am a nontraditional student. I went into the Marine Corps Infantry right out of high school. I had experiences overseas during combat that have lead me to aspirations of becoming an ER physician or Forensic Pathology. I have just earned my two year Medical Laboratory Technician certification. I am working on my bachelors in Clinical Laboratory Science to earn my Medical Laboratory Scientist certification. I was wanting to meet any med students, residents, attendings that have taken similar career paths. If being an MLT or MT helped with medical school. I have noticed a lot of the curriculum for med schools are similar to that of MLT's/MT's (hematology,medical micro,immunology,immunohematology, and molecular diagnostics). What do they feel as MT's in med school they should of focused more on... any insight would be of great apprecitation.

 

[wholeheartedly]

Not a med student yet, but have been working for a few years as an MLS. What I've gathered from my former classmates who've gone on to medical school was that it was a very helpful background to have for medical school. Some non-MLS students higher up have said that they kind of had to learn the diagnostic testing on the go and working at a teaching hospital seems to indicate that residents don't always know much about the tests they order from what exactly they're testing for exactly or the best tests to use for certain things to the limitations on those tests. So having this background is quite helpful there. I know there are a couple people farther along that come around once in awhile. If you search you might find a few threads where they've popped their heads in. Good luck, I thoroughly enjoyed learning all of the CLS stuff.

 

[Prncssbuttercup]

As long as you do well in your courses, it's a no-brainer. Any bachelors degree is accepted, and any clinical work is helpful. Keep your grades high, take your pre-reqs, and do it... Not to mention if you're interested you can go back to the military as a doc and have them pay off all your loans...