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I think there's some truth in what you're saying. The ratio of those who come to volunteer over those who signed up to volunteer in the ER is ~20% (vaguely calculated from personal experience and talking w/ nurses/techs). Not too many people seem to care either.

It's great that you're so excited about medical research (although you haven't experienced it yet). Find a lab where the mentorship is good and see if it's something you like to do. Just be warned... planning too much ahead with so much idealism may create unattainable expections. In...

I agree w/ ryan. No prep course, good MCAT score here (35+).

that sounds about right to me.

Amazing- it was only an undergrad and his PI who authored a Science paper

bump Sciencemag.org 's NextWave is featuring the MD/PhD topic for this month (Oct), and Habari's one of the student authors. Does that qualify him for first author in Science? ;)

maybe the prof is smart but he isn't so persuasive in your case

There's also a nice figure here: Journal of Orthopaedic Research Volume 19, Issue 4 , 2001, Pages 505-510 Fig. 1. Diagram showing the numbers of MSTP graduates in each stage of training or career. This report describes a group that has graduated with both degrees, and the boxes on the...

If you search on Pubmed, people conduct research on the utility of MSTP all the time. Here's an abstract for starters: Acad Med. 1996 May;71(5):484-7. Related Articles, Links Career characteristics of graduates of a Medical Scientist Training Program, 1970-1990. Bradford WD...

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TPR says MCAT was not unexpected and had a difficulty similar to 6R:

Don't you just love how curves makes us want others to fail? :p

You're thinking Ann Arbor then if you don't mind snow

ChemE major / Bio minor here. I agree with the above posters that you shouldn't inherit the superiority complex of being special as an engineer. Med school admissions don't want to hear it. Instead, if you could develop an argument for why ChemE puts you at an advantage (ie cutting edge...

This guy's probably raised a winner with all the right habits. I think he'll succeed no matter where he goes and what he does... but a minor drawback, if he's into the basic research sector, is that after a larger chunk of med school, his state-of-art research will age.