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If my long term aspiration is to have a lab working on translation problems, particularly in a cancer related sphere, would you say that my proposed route (2 more years at Cambridge + 4 years of HST) would be a good preparation for that?
Do you feel that I would be at a disadvantage compared to American MSTP's when applying for residency or at some point further down the road?
Is it an issue if my current research isn't directly related to therapeutics or clinical problems, or that my PhD wouldn't be integrated within an MD?
Would anyone argue to just do an MD-only path?
HST is a very lonely place for anyone who is the slightest bit different, and if you enter HST with a PhD, you will not fit the HST mold. Just a week or two ago, an HST MD student died by suicide. She entered HST with a PhD from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes scholar.
I agree.This is tragic. I'm sorry to hear it. I would just point out that loneliness (especially among us geeks) and suicide among medical students is not limited to HST...
Without knowing a person or their situation, choosing one facet of a complex individual as the "cause" for suicide (if that is what it was) is very presumptuous!HST is a very lonely place for anyone who is the slightest bit different, and if you enter HST with a PhD, you will not fit the HST mold. Just a week or two ago, an HST MD student died by suicide. She entered HST with a PhD from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes scholar.
Without knowing a person or their situation, choosing one facet of a complex individual as the "cause" for suicide (if that is what it was) is very presumptuous!