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Agent, It'll be rough. 2 hrs/day is alot. 10 hrs/week down the drain. 40 hrs/month! On top of that you'll still have to spend sufficient time with your wife; and you'll have to study; AND you'll have to sleep every now and then. Whew! just breaking it down for you. Like the ever eloquent and...

Very true. Small lib-arts college profs usually love their students and are very excited to spend lots of time showing them how to do research. They don't have grad students so all their time goes to undergrads and especially those ones interested in their work.

Hey! Warpath. What's up? I was wandering when you guys were starting. How was Nigeria? Say what's up to everybody. I thought Leah was hot; I was going to come to WashU because of her :D. Gotta run; some monkey just IMed me to get my @ss to the amphitheatre. Class in like 10 minutes.

Damn! That was the only reason I got the MS in the first place. All that work for nothing. Oh well :D

Not really. 50% of my class here @ Duke are from non-big time schools. And almost all of the 12 MSTPers in my class are from non-Ivy/big shot places. In the entire class there are only 2 from Harvard but like 8 from Stanford, ~6 from Duke, and about 4 Yalies. But then I think duke med is less...

That's the point. You are correct! If I ever make it through this muddphudd program I'll write MS, MD, PhD (sounds good :D). Yet MD is higher up than MS.

School is great! We started about 10 days ago with a weekend camping trip followed by a week of orientation. Today was the 2nd day of class. My classmates are so much fun. I like almost all of them. We all have our lap-tops hooked up during class and we spend quality time IMing each other back...

That kinda makes sense but it's just not the case. Straight PhD's are not physicians so they obviously can't get too near clinical work. Just as you wouldn't call your surgeon when your car transmission Fs up. Yet the surgeon guy's degree is almost undisputably "higher" than the mechanic's.

hmmm...sorry but you're wrong. A PhD is "higher" than an MD degree. With all due respect, technically speaking med school is a glorified trade school as are all professional schools (law, dental, chiro and the like). Of course this doesn't detract from how noble and so forth medicine is as a...

Thanks. I'll pm you though I doubt I'll have much time once school starts. I wish otherwise but..:D

I ought to be shot:D . I found out the med school began in ~1930 and this is whne they made the curriculum.

Cool! Se you be yankee citizen or international-student? Definitely look me up if your interview-trail passes through ghetto-@ss Durham :) . Good luck

You're right. Despite only 3 yrs in med school, Duke MSTP students consistently finish in 7 yrs (though few in 6). 7.5 yrs is pretty much standardized across the schools and so program duration is not a very distinguishing factor any longer. Except for the couple of schools that still graduate...

To answer the initial question: I asked Sal Pizzo (Duke MSTP director) the same question when I interviewed, and he told me that other schools are yet to follow suit due to financial reasons. When duke designed it's curriculum 30+ yrs ago (at the very onset of the medschool) it didn't cost...

Definitely! The school is awesome; though the surrounding areas dey fiercely ghettofied and there's not much to do in Durham. I thought I'd come here and party a bit before school starts but I've been so busy with auto insurance/registration/DL, bank, groceries, etc, that I've not even had time...