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Originally Posted by WCsweet<3
I am going into the medical field, but am wanting to research genetics. I was told I didn't need to go to medical school, yet that doesn't make sense to me, so now I'm looking up schools anyway. Does anyone know a good way to go about doing this? Is there a database or someway other than google to look up schools?
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If you are wanting to be a researcher, medical school is NOT the best way to go. If you want to be a physician researcher, then an MD/PhD program is a possibility, but that adds at least 2 years to your medical school training. Medical school includes very little real research and does nothing to prepare you for actual bench research. Some fellowship programs after residency (my husband is doing bench work at Hopkins in the pediatric endocrinology section) require some bench work, but you are thrown in like you know how to run western/southern blots, develop knock-out rats,etc. My husband (who is extremely smart is constantly wishing he'd done a PhD since he only wants to do research.) You really need to figure out what you want from your career. If you'd like to see patients and have a medical based genetics lab, then MD/PhD is probably a good choice. If you just want research, skip medical school.