🚀 go-pugleaf

Greetings.

I wonder if there are any of you out there who are interested in a
surgical specialty as far as the clinical training goes. I've finished my
PhD work here in the Cellular and Molecular Biology Program studying
problems of gene expression, but now find that clinically the operating
room is an interesting place to be, and I'm seriously considering a
residency in some kind of surgical area. Ideally, I could be involved
with the surgical management of cancer as well as investigate the
cellular transformations that give rise to it, or new approaches to
treating it. Pie in the sky, I realize, but am I the only one who would
consider surgery? Out of some 30+ graduates of our program, only 1 has
gone into a surgical area (ophthalmology) and I'm trying to get an idea
of just how rare this pathway is, as well as how surgical residency
programs react to MD/PhD students. Any comments/opinions welcome...