PhD and/or MD? Advice would be helpful.

WayOutWestMom
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:25:48 +0000

@GFPCat

Even non academic, industrial jobs for bio PhDs are hard to come by. I strongly recommend against that route.

Right now I would suggest that you find a job and work for a few years so you can put some distance between yourself and you weak grades. Right now your academic track record is weak and you need time before any reinvention story will be believable.

Instead you need to decide exactly what you really want you want to do with your life. There are plenty of permanent research associate jobs out there if you like working in research lab. Or you could pursue certification in clinical lab sciences and work a lab tech in hospital or clinic. Public health positions require a MPH, esp if you want to work for the CDC or some other government agency.

As for how to reinvent yourself—go to SDN (student doctor network) and find a thread by Goro, who is an adcomm at a DO school. He gives excellent advice on how to go about improving your uGPA.