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Hi,

I saw Mr Broder's post on issues confronted by us upon reentering med
school, and as I'm about to embark on this rite of passage I thought I'd
comment.  Oh I guess I might elaborate on my situation.  I'm at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  My graduate program is the
Neurobiology Curriculum and the research has involved hippocampal learning
and memory and unit recording in rodents.  We do things alittle
differently here.  I started out in graduate school, then after one year
in which I conpleted course work and took comps, I went to do the first
two years of medical school.  I've spent the last 18 months on the
dissertation, and I'll be reentering third year in July I hope.  Your
three issues are right on my list.  First, until just recently here
reentering MDPhD's weren't even accorded status equivalent to second year
students in choosing third year rotations.  That has been corrected and
we're now simply thrown in with them if I'm correct.  As far as flexiblity
of entry time goes, I believe it is possible at UNC to enter third year
one block of rotations late.  While I don't plan to use it because of the
added handicap it would put me at in relation to the other students, I
could conceivably enter third year in Sept rather than July.  In addition
the med school will allow PhD research to fulfill three months of fourth
year electives, so there's ample time in fourth year to catch up.  Finally
as far as I know, no organized effort has been made to re-educate us on
clinical skills.  Retraining in physical diagnosis is available on request
I beleive which I plan to use, but given how much I've forgotten in 18
months I am very concerned that I will be struggling to keep up.  So there
you have it in a nutshell.  I think your three issues definitely hit the
nail on the head.

Sincerely,
Geoff Schoenbaum, MSIIILOA