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The terrifying thing about science (and, especially, medical) careers is how long it takes to train. An acquaintance showed me his plan for an MD/PhD with a mas
by tibbar 5y ago
The terrifying thing about science (and, especially, medical) careers is how long it takes to train. An acquaintance showed me his plan for an MD/PhD with a master’s, which required 20 years of post-secondary education; he was 10 years in. At some point the sunk costs are so great that one can only imagine going forward, even if it would be easier to simply take up a new career.
- 908B64B197 5y agoHow much of that is actually useful? First, to even apply to medical school, you need a completely unrelated 4 year undergrads. Then there's residency where, let's face it, it's more of a contest of who can sleep the least and impress whoever's in charge and not at all about learning.
- tibbar 5y agoAs I understand it, doing high-level medical research requires an enormous amount of training - think of it, if you will, as on boarding into the insanely complex and poorly commented legacy system that is the human body. As an engineer I would much rather just throw it out and do a rewrite, but of course that’s not how any of this works. Probably there are very few careers where this amount of training is meaningful.
- jstx1 5y ago> First, to even apply to medical school, you need a completely unrelated 4 year undergrads. This isn't the case outside of the US which shows that the American track can definitely be compressed.