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I've been accepted to medical schools and PhD programs. What would you do in my situation?
My bachelors was in Physics so going into industry as I am isn't a great idea and I always intended to earn a graduate level degree but I have to choose between a PhD and MD right now and I want outside opinions.

>> No.10418405

>>10418401

Go for a masters and PhD in Europe. Med school is for those that know how the medical field is like.

>> No.10418419

>>10418405
I've been accepted to some highly ranked programs, all in the USA. I don't have time to do something like that. They want a decision now and im not turning down everything that I've worked for.

>> No.10418427

>>10418419

Med school is for people that know how the medical life is and want to spend their lives in it. Going to med school just for the title is a huge waste of time.
YOu'll have almost no competition as a physics bachelors but at the same time you'll also find almost nobody to connect with because med students usuallys take easy courses and aren't very tech savvy.

So you'll end up being lonely and isolated, while at the same time not really being able to use your potential because medical reserach is completely unscientific and focussed on studies rather than state of the art technologies.

>> No.10419211

>>10418401
Go to med school, I'm MS1 from math background and I know someone in my cohort with a physics major. You will find someone like you I'm sure and at the end of 4 years you will have an actual trade you can be comfortable will pay the bills. In good medical schools they encourage you to do research while you study so you can use your physics major to good use I imagine.
Ask yourself the same question that I did as a math major, are you going to be the next Einstein, Feynmann, Heisenberg? If not, why would you really do a physics PhD?

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10420113

>>10418427
>medical research is unscientific
Where's your handler? How'd you get in here?

>> No.10420487

>>10420113
Practicing medicine is effectively "what does this most resemble and how did we successfully treat that?"

>> No.10421942

>>10418401
MD and then continue to PhD program in medicine