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Dropping updated numbers here. Median age at first R01 for MDs and MD/PhDs in 2023 was 45. https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/05/06/age-of-principal-investigators-at-the-time-of-first-r01-remains-level-with-recent-years-in-fy-2023/

These are spam. These people are sending hundreds of emails, and as you note the barriers to employing foreign nationals are much too high to make it worth the trouble. If you feel obligated to respond, it's fine to just say something like, "Sorry, we aren't able to take on foreign nationals...

I'm not sure that I find this as alarming as all that. All our life milestones are moving out to older ages. People are living longer, and having longer productive careers as well. Why not accept these timelines as according with our longer lifespans and healthspans? I think the problem is...

Also teaching faculty here. Have taught med students, residents, and psychology PhDs. (My PhD is in basic neuroscience.) No contest that a psychology doctorate blows psych residency out of the water for psychotherapy training. But for someone with a specific interest, it's totally possible to...

It's both. The background in physiology and pathology is prerequisite for understanding the psychopharmacology. If you were already a licensed psychologist who wanted to be able to provide low risk medications to your existing patients without having to route them back through the medical...

Sorry just smh at this coming from someone who hasn't been through it. This sounds pretty smart actually. SSRIs are relatively low risk and useful for lots of things. This is a much more intelligent way to go about providing broader access to care while maintaining safety, vs dumping an...

In such a case I would just say "appropriately dressed and groomed, with facial scarring." Seriously, is there an argument for putting "unattractive appearance due to facial scarring" in a mental status exam??? It adds no information except to make the note writer look like a jerk.

I'd probably go with "well built" for that one

I don't know, I think this would be weird to put in someone's medical chart. At the very least, extreme attractiveness is pretty subjective. There's general agreement on which people are 'attractive' but 'crazy good looking' seems to be highly dependent on the observer. So I think this type of...

My default for the 'Appearance' entry in the MSE is "appropriately dressed and groomed". If there is a notable departure that is clinically relevant, I will remark it. E.g. sometimes I will say "attentively," "professionally," "casually," "very casually," or in the extreme case, "disheveled"...

What's crazy to me is that the most harmful recreational substances - tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana - are all legal, whereas the low-risk and potentially therapeutic psychedelics are still on the naughty list. What's up with that.

Wait really? The cannabis -schizophrenia connection was well recognized by the early 2000s. I'm looking at a review right now and it looks like the first two big longitudinal studies were in 1987 and 1990, with a whole bunch more coming out between 2002 and 2006. This is not something that's...

Academic medicine 55% research/45% clinic (outpatient subspecialty) Favorite: data analysis, esp when something cool and new comes out of it. Getting notice of funding is up there as well Least favorite: it's a tie between getting grant applications rejected and fighting the bureaucracy in...

Just here to say that I'm all about posting in my underwear. As an aside, OP I have to agree that your UG GPA and MCAT are going filter you out of most MD/PhD admissions pools before you ever get a chance to tell the rest of your story to a human being. I think the advice you've received to...

Location is nowhere on that list? Really??