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Does anyone know of any schools which will allow their Phd students to transfer into their Md/Phd program?
Sonya said:I pmed you.
lena20 said:Does anyone know of any schools which will allow their Phd students to transfer into their Md/Phd program?
Foreigner said:I can tell you that Cornell (MD/PhD program with Rockefeller and Sloan Kettering) DOES NOT let you transfer from PhD to MD/PhD. And I think the other way around (MD to MD/PhD is always easier).
In the worst case scenario, you can finish your PhD and apply to MD (that's what I'm doing
Good luck
dentidoc said:Hi:
So is that MD+Phd =clinicals+Research
and only MD=clinicals, only Phd=Research
dentidoc said:Thanks fr the infrmn.
Havarti666 said:Not quite, MD's can do research, even exclusively.
Some PhD's, such as clinical chemistry or clinical microbiology, can be involved in clinical work (although they do so from the lab). Some PharmD's take part in patient care on the wards. Etc.
I know of several who have tried to 'transfer'. All were unsuccessful. I also know several who were in Ph.D. programs initially but they took the MCAT, reapplied with the regular M.D./Ph.D. applicants, and were admitted. I know one person who was in the M.D. program, but transferred into the M.D./Ph.D. program after year one; this is the easiest route as Ph.D. students have generally not taken the MCAT, but M.D./Ph.D. programs usually only care about the MCAT which all medical students have taken.lena20 said:Does anyone know of any schools which will allow their Phd students to transfer into their Md/Phd program?
Foreigner said:I agree. MD's can do research, and pretty much any research they want. It goes to extremes, so that Rod McKinnon (MD, no PhD) got his Nobel in Chemistry couple of years ago. You are really not restricted at all, and you can balance patients and research, or choose to do one or the other.
PhD - you can do a lot of research, but you cannot touch a patient. So, even if you are working on immunology in HIV patients - you will receive their blood, and do all sorts of experiments, but you will never see these people.