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What can you do/jobs can you get with an SMP if you don't get accepted into medical school?
What can I do with an SMP?
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LooKing4Ward said:
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No, actually, it is not generally a masters with any "market value" other than for admission to med school -- as it is tailored for such. You need to come up with another fall back, I guess.
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Probably why it's much wiser to burn the extra year for an actual master's.
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I disagree entirely with the degree being useless. Lots of positions in the clinical research field, for example, require a science degree. So there's a huge additional benefit to the SMP if you were a history major or something; you can do the SMP, get the science degree, and make yourself eligible for all sorts of positions you weren't eligible for before. If anything, it makes yourself more marketable than a traditional master's during a job interview because you can say that you took so many med school courses, thus making your training that much more relevant depending on the field.
Now, if you already have a BA/BS in the sciences, there's not as much benefit. You may be eligible for a pay increase in you current/former field, but that's about it.
Now, if you already have a BA/BS in the sciences, there's not as much benefit. You may be eligible for a pay increase in you current/former field, but that's about it.
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This where it becomes difficult. Go for a masters so you have something to fall back on if you're a longshot. If you do an SMP and you fail to get in, can you really do anything with it. If you go the traditional route and get a "real" Masters, it's much more applicable/practical/accepted in the real world of grad school and research/work, but it's probably not what adcomms are looking for in terms of proving that you can handle the first 2 years of med school. I want to agree that the SMP is very useful, you're taking med school classes, that's got to count for something, but if you don't get in that's all it's going to count for. And then there's a post-bac, that's another story.
