To all you ‘real’ doctors out there!

[No Imagination]

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And by ‘real doctor’, I mean Ph.D’s (as far as I am concerned, all the others (MD, DVM, DD, JD, whatever chiropractors call themselves these days) are professional degree’s).

Anyway, have you given any thought on how you are (if you are) planning on using your degree/experience once you are done? Academia is DEFINETLY not for me. I thought about lab animal, but I don’t care how they spin it, every one I’ve shadowed/talked to did 90% regulatory compliance (and I’ve talked to a few). Someday I may do industry, but not ready to give up the clinical side yet.

Just curious if you have been thinking about it, and what your thoughts are (hoping someone has an idea I haven’t thought of, and I am like “$hit, yeah, I can do that!”)

(I have a pipe dream of creating a small lab in the back of my hospital, getting primers sent over, buy a cheap thermal cycler and doing my own PCR's... probably not realistic LoL)

 

[GellaBella]

And by ‘real doctor’, I mean Ph.D’s (as far as I am concerned, all the others (MD, DVM, DD, JD, whatever chiropractors call themselves these days) are professional degree’s).

Anyway, have you given any thought on how you are (if you are) planning on using your degree/experience once you are done? Academia is DEFINETLY not for me. I thought about lab animal, but I don’t care how they spin it, every one I’ve shadowed/talked to did 90% regulatory compliance (and I’ve talked to a few). Someday I may do industry, but not ready to give up the clinical side yet.

Just curious if you have been thinking about it, and what your thoughts are (hoping someone has an idea I haven’t thought of, and I am like “$hit, yeah, I can do that!”)

(I have a pipe dream of creating a small lab in the back of my hospital, getting primers sent over, buy a cheap thermal cycler and doing my own PCR's... probably not realistic LoL)

haha I've been thinking the lab animal/academia/industry route. I don't actually mind academia...as long as i'm just not stuck in a lab writing grants all day long. I think that if I could practice clinical medicine at the same time...which a lot of the VMD/PhD holders here at Penn do, I might be able to maintain some sense of sanity. And i think i would enjoy lecturing to veterinary students. i'm also thinking about lab animal because it lets me be involved in research without the actual hassle of doing the research. Or more importantly, trying to get funding for the research👍

You could always start a start up company doing diagnostics for diseases we don't currently have good/reliable diagnostics for. I feel like every time a lecturer is like "and this is the next big thing that would be great to have" I file it away as like a "maybe I should work on that" sort of idea.

but yeah, it's hard to combine the two.

You could be an editor for veterinary research journals!

haha if you come up with a good and lucrative idea, let me know!

 

[No Imagination]

I feel like every time a lecturer is like "and this is the next big thing that would be great to have" I file it away as like a "maybe I should work on that" sort of idea.

LoL - You know, we were covering the diagnostic limitations of FIP the other day, specifically the low levels of the corona virus in monocytes (or at least outside GI enterocytes) - and they said "PCR is to sensitive to use on blood and produces too many false +'s". So I make the mistake of asking why they don't just use qrt-PCR then? I should have known better.

Truth be told, i am oblivious to many of the rules and epidemilogy needed to role out a new clinical assay. It still bugs the $hit out of me that we don't have a good Ag FIV test... I mean, if we have an Ab test, the Ab most be binding to something in vivo, can't we just synthesize that and role out a Ag ELISA?!

But that's the grad student in me thinking, and it never gets past the 5 minutes in class I blank out thinking about it, before I realize that I missed 2 lecture topics trying to figure out a problem that I JUST KNOW isn't going to be on the test ;(

But I like your thinking!

You could be an editor for veterinary research journals!

LoL - Like that pays :-(

 

[GellaBella]

LoL - Like that pays :-(

haha. I know. 🙄
trying to think outside the box though. 😛

 

[nyanko]

You could always start a start up company doing diagnostics for diseases we don't currently have good/reliable diagnostics for. I feel like every time a lecturer is like "and this is the next big thing that would be great to have" I file it away as like a "maybe I should work on that" sort of idea.

Yeah, I kinda do this too but more of a thought exercise than a "could actually do this" one.

But that's the grad student in me thinking, and it never gets past the 5 minutes in class I blank out thinking about it, before I realize that I missed 2 lecture topics trying to figure out a problem that I JUST KNOW isn't going to be on the test ;(

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