Questions on road to career in neuro from an MI

[ProReduction]

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Hello Neuro prospects and experts. I know that you have seen many posts like this before, but it won’t hurt to get some updated info. I will be an MI this fall and am very interested in Neuro and Neurosurg. Can an expert please post a pathway to successful residency in each? Specific questions I have are:

Neuro: Should I shadow a neurologist during med school? Should I participate in research to be more competitive in top residencies? I was a BCHM and PHIL double major in undergrad. Would publishing a PHIL paper on the consequences of elucidating the mind/body connection be of use? Please add anything helpful that you know of.

Neurosurg: I am less sure of the pathway here. I know that each candidate’s road to residency is different. Please go over the basics. I know you need impressive Step I scores and that research is a plus. I also know that your med school prestige plays a factor. I am not going to a top ten school, but my school does match well into Neurosurg.

Thanks.

 

[Callogician]

Hello ProReduction. Being an MSI, I can't adequately answer your questions, but I share your interest in philosophy and neuroscience. I had an idea for a popular science book that I may take a year off to write in a decade or so. My idea is to explore the basis of emotional bias using a multidisciplinary approach...starting from neuroscience, moving to cognitive science and psychology, then to historical examples in science and religion, and finally to philosophical methodology. I would love to discuss some ideas with you if you are willing.

-Brandon
(310) 903-7188

 

[ProReduction]

I can see from your screen name that you already have experience with logic. Is your experience with metalogic or with more applicable first-order logic (formal proofs and translations)? I am very interested in metalogic, although some of the theories are rather obscure without a background in set theory and math proofs.

Basically I am a strong theory reductionist, and I think that is what you are too with regard to your multidisciplinary approach to human thought. Or possibly not. Is your analysis based on the idea that the other approaches are just manifestations of the neurological approach? Or are all of the other approaches independently irreducible?

I think that there are a lot of issues at play here. One of my current interests is in logical positivism. I think that this is the end product of full reduction. I couldn’t even begin to discuss the consequences of this achievement. The end of epistemological restrictions. Unified science. An actual knowledge of metaethics.

It’s good to see that there is another philosophically conscious med student.