You have been accepted into one or more sexy MD/PhD programs. You have been wined and dined. You have spoken with faculty, heard the pitches of the programs, current and prospective students. You let the taste of the revisit sit on your tongue. You imagine yourself at University X. You will be happy, right? You will destroy Step 1, publish a ridiculous amount of high-impact papers, yield faculty offers before you graduate, become the best clinician imaginable, match into your top residency choice, become a baller PI, an ideal physician-scientist-hybrid at highly-ranked University Y, so on and so forth, yeah? And throw in family life while you’re at it.
You may have a formulated idea of your career and personal trajectory—I don’t. I could go on and list my worries, concerns, uncertainties related to the MD/PhD experience—I won’t. What I want to address, though, is the role of this blog. Echoing Charles’s post, this blog – along with others – is a good first step to motivate, engage, provide open-access to individual experiences related to the MD/PhD training. Soon, I hope to contribute my limited insight to this blog; however, at the moment, I am merely an undergraduate who has a lot to learn, real soon.
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