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I'm curious what my fellow SDNers have done/are doing/will do with your MPH/MPH-in-progress, and I'm sure some of the people here contemplating an MPH would like to hear as well. I'll go first, since I'm passing a kidney stone and need the distraction.
During my MPH years I did translational research in rats with a drug that was just entering a Phase I clinical trial. I basically got to run clinical trials in rats. I also did a retrospective chart review in the medical specialty clinic ran by my PI. I was seriously considering doing a PhD in pharmacology either during or after medical school. My MPH years were definitely slanted towards basic and translational research as opposed to large population studies. I'm not sure if I regret that or not. I wished I had gotten more experience working with large datasets, but I did manage to get that later...
In medical school (mostly in years 1 and 2) I worked on a clinical epidemiology project, analyzing a prospectively collected observational database. Lots of descriptive epidemiology along with a fair amount of analytical epi. Also some scale validation and lots of thought and work figuring out how to quantify both the main exposures of interest along with the outcomes of interest. I decided against a PhD since I decided I wanted to keep my research more clinical and less basic. I also testified before a county commissioners meeting in favor of a public health ordinance under consideration (and passed!) that was related to my research conducted before medical school.
I'm set on going into internal medicine, and am currently thinking about pulm/critical care or cardiology, although I guess I haven't rulled out heme/onc or nephrology. I'm considering applying for "fast track" programs (2 years IM, 2 years specialty training, 2-3 years research instead of 3+3 years) as a way of getting some more research training, and the idea of getting a PhD has crept in again (though not in a basic science, probably in epi). I want to continue doing clinical epidemiology. Running clinical trials seems like fun, but perhaps not a cerebral as running more messy types of studies. I really seem to enjoy figuring out how to quantify hard to measure things. I also really like applying biostats to clinical medicine, and forsee myself teaching evidence-based medicine as much as I can. So far I have little interest in doing the typical large population studies, partly out of (in)convenience. So definitely a very academic career for me.
Anybody else?
During my MPH years I did translational research in rats with a drug that was just entering a Phase I clinical trial. I basically got to run clinical trials in rats. I also did a retrospective chart review in the medical specialty clinic ran by my PI. I was seriously considering doing a PhD in pharmacology either during or after medical school. My MPH years were definitely slanted towards basic and translational research as opposed to large population studies. I'm not sure if I regret that or not. I wished I had gotten more experience working with large datasets, but I did manage to get that later...
In medical school (mostly in years 1 and 2) I worked on a clinical epidemiology project, analyzing a prospectively collected observational database. Lots of descriptive epidemiology along with a fair amount of analytical epi. Also some scale validation and lots of thought and work figuring out how to quantify both the main exposures of interest along with the outcomes of interest. I decided against a PhD since I decided I wanted to keep my research more clinical and less basic. I also testified before a county commissioners meeting in favor of a public health ordinance under consideration (and passed!) that was related to my research conducted before medical school.
I'm set on going into internal medicine, and am currently thinking about pulm/critical care or cardiology, although I guess I haven't rulled out heme/onc or nephrology. I'm considering applying for "fast track" programs (2 years IM, 2 years specialty training, 2-3 years research instead of 3+3 years) as a way of getting some more research training, and the idea of getting a PhD has crept in again (though not in a basic science, probably in epi). I want to continue doing clinical epidemiology. Running clinical trials seems like fun, but perhaps not a cerebral as running more messy types of studies. I really seem to enjoy figuring out how to quantify hard to measure things. I also really like applying biostats to clinical medicine, and forsee myself teaching evidence-based medicine as much as I can. So far I have little interest in doing the typical large population studies, partly out of (in)convenience. So definitely a very academic career for me.
Anybody else?