What do MD/PhD’s do after graduating?
Most MD/PhD trainees enter clinical residency training after completing their degrees, and have gone into every field of medicine, with an outsized proportion training in Pathology and Medical and Pediatric subspecialties. Training in procedure-oriented medical subspecialties and surgical subspecialties is possible, although this carries with it the extra challenge of maintaining competency in complex medical procedures while running a research lab. MD/PhD trained physicians are also in demand by the pharmaceutical industry as experts in translating basic discoveries into new therapeutics. The next research experience after MD/PhD training usually occurs during subspecialty fellowship in the medical specialties or during the research years of longer surgical residency training programs. A number of academic institutions have ‘physician-scientist’ training tracks in their residency and fellowship training programs tailored for the interests of MD/PhD graduates.
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