BroncosCountry12
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Hi everyone!
I am applying MD-only this upcoming cycle, but research is by far the strongest part of my app (~15 pubs and other good research experience). I have sufficient clinical experience and hours but research was the big focus.
Based on my application, people have told me to be prepared to answer the question "Why aren't you applying MD/PhD?". My truthful answer to this is that I don't want to do another 4 years of training and I don't really care to do much basic science after being an attending. Obviously, this isn't an answer adcoms would want to hear, so how do you suggest I go about explaining why I'm not doing MD/PhD (or if you think they won't ask this at all)?
Thank you for reading!
I am applying MD-only this upcoming cycle, but research is by far the strongest part of my app (~15 pubs and other good research experience). I have sufficient clinical experience and hours but research was the big focus.
Based on my application, people have told me to be prepared to answer the question "Why aren't you applying MD/PhD?". My truthful answer to this is that I don't want to do another 4 years of training and I don't really care to do much basic science after being an attending. Obviously, this isn't an answer adcoms would want to hear, so how do you suggest I go about explaining why I'm not doing MD/PhD (or if you think they won't ask this at all)?
Thank you for reading!