Recent content by DrJD

There are so many points to address with this post so I'll do my best to take them in order. 1) You can't make the argument that it takes on average engineers 5 years to graduate. That is a general trend amongst all college majors, including the biggest feeder to medical school, Biology...

Just wanted to add that in my experience Medical Physicists are definitely more than just technicians. In our rad onc department, the physicists are heavily involved in some really cool research. A lot of engineering, programming, and radiation physics. Now, are they thinking about the...

Depending on where you do medical school, in all likelihood you wouldn't get to skip ANY classes. Not because you wouldn't know info, but because most schools want you to take everything there. But some do let you skip courses, so let's talk about those... Of the basic sciences, there...

I appreciate the point you are trying to make, but again you are misreading the data about residencies. Family medicine and Pediatrics are a three year residency, AFTER a 1 year internship. So in PGY (post graduate years), Internal medicine is the only one that is three years, while Family...

I think it is humerous that you chose to refute on such minor points are are wrong to boot! Most doctors are done in 3 years? The only specialty that is 3 years is Internal Medicine, of which many graduates go on to fellowship for 1 to 3 years. Family medicine, Dermatology, Ob/Gyn, etc...

Just to give you an idea of the differences between an engineers training and a medical doctors. Engineer - 4 years of Undergrad (many stop here) 1 year for masters (Most stop here) So 5 years after high school you begin earning your salary of 50 thousand, and start working your way...

Depends on what you mean by "hard." Being admitted to medical school in general is extremely competitive. There are MD/PhD programs that specialize in training physcian/scientists. Many of these graduates go on to practice at an academic hospital where they can also run a research lab. I've...

I'd love it if you could find out the name of the book! Let me know!

You are correct, it would be very hard to start a practice at 2 or 3 days a week. I was referring to doing this after being in practice for a little while when you have more seniority. I intend to work in an academic hospital setting so rather than be part of a practice I would be a salaried...

Yea, sorry... I wasn't trying to imply that a physics PhD was somehow "easy" and could be accomplished in a couple days work. (Although for the record, I think that medical school could probably be condensed down into 2 or 3 days of coursework. A couple days a week we only have an hour or two...

Well depending on what you mean by "career suicide" I guess you could be right. I'm fairly certain that compensation will be lower but hey, its not all about money right? Actually my plan may or may not come to fruition by the time I finish medical school and residency and am working as a...

Hey mathwonk, I just had a question for you... Three pronged actually: First I am in medical school right now and have found that the more time I spend in the biological science the more I miss math! Anyway it has been quite a few years since I took Calculus in college and was trying to get...

Thanks for sharing!

Yea, it is slightly unrealistic... I know several PhD candidates who "work" in a lab or environment. I guess I was trying to express that I was hoping to work a few hours a week as a doctor for monetary purposes you know? I guess we'll see... If it came down to it and it needed to be that I...

Thats great! Thanks, yea there is definitely a long road ahead... But you get to a certain point and for financial reasons you really have no choice but to finish it out and become a doctor if for no other reason so you can pay off the massive student loans you know? Yea, the residency is 5...