MD/PhD in Neuroscience?

mcat2
Mon, 03 Mar 2014 07:14:59 +0000

Is neurology closely related to neuroscience?

I heard several of DS’s classmates may be interested in getting into the neurology specialty. I heard it could have something to do with the diseases like stroke, dementia for older patients. Other than that, I do not know the relationship between the neurology (as a specialty) and the neuroscience (as a medical science subject.)

I heard the life style for a physician in the neurology specialty is likely not bad. (Maybe even better than the emergency medicine.) But I am not sure whether it is a competitive specialty (like another life-style specialty, pathology?) to get in.

To get into a top academic medicine center in a “desirable” area (read: in a large city, especially the one close to the coastal area), my guess is that it is competitive like most other specialties.