NFL star Robert Smith @ OSU Med?

[Adcadet]

hey all -
anybody else remember Robert Smith, the great all-pro running back for the Minnesota Vikings? He was my favorite player, partly because he considered himself pre-med. He did his undergrad at The Ohio State University, majoring in chemistry and I believe graduating with honors. He always told reporters that he eventually wanted to go to medical school. A classmate of mine mentioned that he thought he was at OSU's med school.....does anybody know for sure?

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[uclacrewdude]

Dude, one of the QB's for the Buckeyes is a molecular bio major who does research whenever he's not at practice or in class. How does THAT make your application look???

 

[Gleevec]

Originally posted by uclacrewdude
Dude, one of the QB's for the Buckeyes is a molecular bio major who does research whenever he's not at practice or in class. How does THAT make your application look???

Probably pretty good, since OSU "helps" its athletes out a ton academically-- see Maurice Clarett. 🙄

 

[xaelia]

Robert Smith is not a medical student here at Ohio State. T'would be cool if he was, though....

Originally posted by Adcadet
hey all -
anybody else remember Robert Smith, the great all-pro running back for the Minnesota Vikings? He was my favorite player, partly because he considered himself pre-med. He did his undergrad at The Ohio State University, majoring in chemistry and I believe graduating with honors. He always told reporters that he eventually wanted to go to medical school. A classmate of mine mentioned that he thought he was at OSU's med school.....does anybody know for sure?

 

[cchoukal]

I thought I remember hearing that he chose btwn med school and the draft (had he already been accepted somewhere?) and that he retired so he could consider getting back to it before he got too old/crippled. I can't really vouch for the veracity of any of this...

 

[BradMcC17]

Craig Krenzel is the OSU qb's name. Can you imagine at that interview:

"so what do you do in your spare time?"
"win national championships."

hehehe

 

[MacGyver]

Quit making up lies.

Krenzel does NOT do research in his spare time.

That being said, i'm sure he'll get accepted to a lot of med schools. I'm assuming he is applying right now.

How the hell is he going to coordinate interviews while traveling on weekends to football games?

 

[BradMcC17]

http://ohiostatebuckeyes.ocsn.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/krenzel_craig01.html

Scroll down to the bottom of the bio. He did research over the summer. D-I football is a full-time job, theres no way he would have time to do research during the season.

 

[BPKurtz]

Originally posted by MacGyver
Quit making up lies.

Krenzel does NOT do research in his spare time.

That being said, i'm sure he'll get accepted to a lot of med schools. I'm assuming he is applying right now.

How the hell is he going to coordinate interviews while traveling on weekends to football games?

Krenzel does do research here at OSU at the James Cancer Hospital (the cancer part of the OSU Medical Center). He apparently works in Dr. Caligiuri's lab. I hear he doesn't spend a ton of time on it (he is busy with his classes and athletics) but he definitely spends enough to legitimately say he does research there.

Assuming his grades are decent (I've heard they are) and his MCATs are good he's a shoe-in for OSU College of Medicine if he wants it. This town is crazy for Buckeye football (myself included). I think it would be funny to see attendings interact with him though. Instead of being yelled at in the OR for not holding the laparoscope steady they'd probably be kissing his butt and asking him how it felt to win the Fiesta Bowl in triple overtime.

Robert Smith, a major disappointment to the Buckeyes in the past, is not a student here. Did he even end up graduating from OSU? I thought he left early to go pro. But yes, he was supposedly smarter than most football players.

bpkurtz

 

[DrQuinn]

My M1 year we had a NFL pro player in my class... he didn't end up progressing and I believe went and got his MPH... not sure if he is still at school, though, as I saw him aruond when I was graduating this past May.

Q, DO

 

[Sessamoid]

Originally posted by BPKurtz
I think it would be funny to see attendings interact with him though. Instead of being yelled at in the OR for not holding the laparoscope steady they'd probably be kissing his butt and asking him how it felt to win the Fiesta Bowl in triple overtime.

Either I am underestimating how life-blindingly important college football is there, or you are underestimating just how strictly hierarchical the world of medicine is. What you did before medicine really has very little to do with how your colleagues interact with you on a regular basis, if you don't do your job well.

The residency class behind mine had a great guy, a former navy f-14 pilot (the same jets that you see in the movie Top Gun). While he got lots of questions about his military career out of curiosity, when he screwed up (as we all do in residency) he got berated just as the rest of us did. And in case you haven't figured it out yet, those ahead of you in residency are pretty much always considered superior to you, even if you happen to be a war hero. It's just the way that medical education works.

 

[BradMcC17]

Sessamoid, was the fighter pilots face plastered all over the media? There's a big difference between the celebrity status of the two. I'm sure the heirarchy would ultimately rule but having a national figure alongside you would be out of the ordinary.

 

[notjvarma]

sessamoid - you are underestimating how life-blindingly important college football is here 🙂

kickoff is in 15...

time to get outta here.


GO BUCKS!!!

 

[Sessamoid]

Out of the ordinary, yes. I think you'd be surprised how many people (yes, even in Buckeye country) don't give a damn about college football or football of any kind. I understand what it's like living in football country (grew up in Texas), but there are still plenty of people who couldn't tell football from rugby, and couldn't care anyway. Lots of those types of people are in academic medicine.

 

[Idiopathic]

robert smith never chose between the draft and med school...he was NFL-bound all the way (1st round pick, actually). I wouldnt be surprised to see him turn up at a med school somewhere, as that was always his plan, I believe...play for 8 or so years, retire at the top of his game and head to be a doctor...he would still be younger than plenty of my classmates, AND with a couple million dollars in the bank...not bad.