Pros and Cons of Post Bacc

The number of medical schools that offer MD/PhD programs with PhDs in social sciences is limited.

Most MD/PhD programs are designed for PhDs in biomedical sciences.

Here’s AMCAS’s list of MD/PhD programs:

https://www.aamc.org/students/download/62760/data/faqtable.pdf

Column 8 lists what fields other than biomedical sciences are offered by individual programs.

29 programs offer PhDs in Public health; only UPenn offers a PhD in health care economics.

The American Physician Scientist Association has its own list of purely social science/humanities (SSH) MD/PhD programs here:

http://www.physicianscientists.org/?page=SSH

Again the number of schools offering these programs is quite limited.

ETA: Here’s AMCAS’s webpage for–

MD-PhD in the Social Sciences or Humanities: Is it Right for Me?

https://www.aamc.org/students/research/mdphd/420992/md-phdsocialscienceshumanities.html