Recommend your profession for a student who loves Bio and Chem

[Anonymous]

DD is in AP Bio and AP Chem and loves both. Is strongly considering a pre med major but I am just worried about all the doctors on here who complain. But the doctors we know in real life seem happy enough. DH (lawyer) and I (teacher) don’t exactly love our jobs either so I’m not sure how to steer DD. She wants the typical husband/house/kids life. What should she consider?

[Anonymous]

Dermatology.

Stay out of research.

Be a community college professor, though the demand for this is shrinking.

Consider Maryland’s PhD-C and be a researching psychologist.

Actually, be a PA. They can switch specialities, unlike doctors. My doctor friends and my underpaid PhD friends wish they’d been Physician Assistants!!

[Anonymous]

Patent attorney. Science undergrad + JD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dermatology.

Stay out of research.

Be a community college professor, though the demand for this is shrinking.

Consider Maryland’s PhD-C and be a researching psychologist.

Actually, be a PA. They can switch specialities, unlike doctors. My doctor friends and my underpaid PhD friends wish they’d been Physician Assistants!!

I would be a nurse practitioner over a PA. You can write prescriptions. More in demand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Patent attorney. Science undergrad + JD

this. IP is where it's at.

[Anonymous]

Medical practice as a physician in the US has become so dependent on insurance rules that it sucks the joy out of it. She can go to NaiH but then you just trade payor for govt bureacracy, none of which really let love for biology or chemistry shine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dermatology.

Stay out of research.

Be a community college professor, though the demand for this is shrinking.

Consider Maryland’s PhD-C and be a researching psychologist.

Actually, be a PA. They can switch specialities, unlike doctors. My doctor friends and my underpaid PhD friends wish they’d been Physician Assistants!!

I would be a nurse practitioner over a PA. You can write prescriptions. More in demand.

PA can write prescriptions.
The difference is NP can work without MD
Supervision so they have more independence.
PA can easily change specialties so it is more flexible.

[Anonymous]

Does she want to research and work in a lab or does she want to see patients and work in a doctors office?

[Anonymous]

Pathology.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dermatology.

Stay out of research.

Be a community college professor, though the demand for this is shrinking.

Consider Maryland’s PhD-C and be a researching psychologist.

Actually, be a PA. They can switch specialities, unlike doctors. My doctor friends and my underpaid PhD friends wish they’d been Physician Assistants!!

I would be a nurse practitioner over a PA. You can write prescriptions. More in demand.

PA can write prescriptions.
The difference is NP can work without MD
Supervision so they have more independence.
PA can easily change specialties so it is more flexible.

I’m an MD and wouldn’t want to be pa/ np. They make 2/3 and know 1/4.

[Anonymous]

https://findajob.agu.org/jobs/biogeosciences/

[Anonymous]

Dietitian or nutrition research

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dermatology.

Stay out of research.

Be a community college professor, though the demand for this is shrinking.

Consider Maryland’s PhD-C and be a researching psychologist.

Actually, be a PA. They can switch specialities, unlike doctors. My doctor friends and my underpaid PhD friends wish they’d been Physician Assistants!!

I would be a nurse practitioner over a PA. You can write prescriptions. More in demand.

PA can write prescriptions.
The difference is NP can work without MD
Supervision so they have more independence.
PA can easily change specialties so it is more flexible.

I’m an MD and wouldn’t want to be pa/ np. They make 2/3 and know 1/4.

Mid level providers are here to stay and a lot of students are choosing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dermatology.

Stay out of research.

Be a community college professor, though the demand for this is shrinking.

Consider Maryland’s PhD-C and be a researching psychologist.

Actually, be a PA. They can switch specialities, unlike doctors. My doctor friends and my underpaid PhD friends wish they’d been Physician Assistants!!

I would be a nurse practitioner over a PA. You can write prescriptions. More in demand.

PA can write prescriptions.
The difference is NP can work without MD
Supervision so they have more independence.
PA can easily change specialties so it is more flexible.

I’m an MD and wouldn’t want to be pa/ np. They make 2/3 and know 1/4.

Only an MD would think that 2/3 the pay for way less headache isn't the right answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dermatology.

Stay out of research.

Be a community college professor, though the demand for this is shrinking.

Consider Maryland’s PhD-C and be a researching psychologist.

Actually, be a PA. They can switch specialities, unlike doctors. My doctor friends and my underpaid PhD friends wish they’d been Physician Assistants!!

I would be a nurse practitioner over a PA. You can write prescriptions. More in demand.

PA can write prescriptions.
The difference is NP can work without MD
Supervision so they have more independence.
PA can easily change specialties so it is more flexible.

I’m an MD and wouldn’t want to be pa/ np. They make 2/3 and know 1/4.

Only an MD would think that 2/3 the pay for way less headache isn't the right answer.

I have to agree. The PAs / NPs I see are way more attentive than the MDs.