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You don't understand the patience and persistence some of these people possess.

What you're looking for is called MSTP (Medical Scientist Training Program). Basically the NIH will sponsor your medical education as well as give you a stipend. The programs typically take 7-9 years from what I understand, and are usually very selective. For successful applicants the average MCAT score is 36 and the average GPA is 3.8 (according to wikipedia). You can also do non-MSTP MD/PhD programs but they have variable funding and stipends available (school specific). Word on the street is that there is a high attrition rate in these programs, with most students just choosing to get their MD. The difference is enormous. Granted, you could piece together aspects of several different PhD programs (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, etc.) and have someone with the same general medical knowledge as a physician, but the real difference comes with clinical experience. This clinical experience leads to a completely different approach to and understanding of the human body. As students we noticed this change in the perspective of our professors between our first and second years. Our first year of medical school was taught mostly by PhDs in their respective fields, whereas our second year was taught mostly by clinicians. In a nutshell, the PhD view tends to be more black and white, whereas the physician blue tends to be a nice shade of gray. The MD/PhD graduate has a great perspective because he/she will be able to apply research principles (PhD) to clinical scenarios. Unfortunately, outside of biostatistics (which is primarily geared to help physicians sort through and understand research), the typical medical education does not include much education on how to actually conduct research -- though some schools offer electives. But honestly not many students take optional electives in medical school. From wikipedia, "According to a FASEB study, graduates of NIH-funded MSTPs make up just 2.5% of medical school graduates each year, but after graduation account for about one third of all NIH research grants awarded to physicians."

Anyone know good sites for good high resolution science-themed wallpapers? I frequently use pictures from APOTD -- just wondering if anyone knows of any other good sites.

Description says it's Travis Pastrana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBrdl2sZWs&feature=related

...what ever happened to plotting by hand :l That's what I had to do.

Same here. We had the worst equipment ever. Nothing ever worked like it should. The physics department got all new equipment for undergraduate labs the year after I left

That's the guy. What a joke he turned out to be.

I haven't seen that picture of myself in three years. HA!

Good luck, do what you gotta do!

I think the "Community" link on the navigation bar is exactly what you're looking for.

Are you looking for academic case studies, research, academic medical text, or a laymans overview?

One click away

Yea, wonder what happened to him. IIRC sayo or dave knows him in real life.

Quoted for emphasis. Alternately, turn on comment moderation.

If you have any suggestions, we'd love to hear them as well. You can private message any complaints or hate mail to Cap'n Refsmmat

I remember docbill and his antics here, anyone else around long enough to remember him?

Your GPA starts over in college. Just get your high school diploma and start fresh. Congrats on your grades, btw.

Here's the actual device in question:

ecoli: You might try logging out of sfn and back in. The two systems share the same cookie, so maybe that has something to do with it. It looks like you posted today, is everything sorted out now? Has anyone else been having trouble? Swanson, any idea how to go about hosting a tangled bank? I think we may soon be adding a statistics module that lets you track your blog's stats (visitors, etc.) I need to check out how much it's going to tax the server first.

To echo what others have said, medical schools don't care about your high school records. If you can't get into a university, go to a community college for a year or two. Do well and transfer to a university to finish your degree. Work hard, good luck!

To get a better view of the lungs. Inhalation spreads the lungs out over maximum volume thus increasing the surface area viewable while simultaneously decreasing the density and thus allowing for better penetration of the x-rays.

Haha' date=' how about "Pondering Other Places" - [i']16 minutes ago.[/i] Indeed. Get the word out to other like-minded blogs and try and get them to add you to their blogroll. The more incoming links, the better. Also throw your RSS feed around wherever you can -- they get picked up on and linked to from other sites. This increases your web-presence for those particularly keywords. Pretty soon the most recent blog posts will be linked to from the front page.

That theme is no good If you have any you'd like me to upload, or can find any on http://themes.wordpress.net/, let me know. Sorry, still working the kinks out of everything.

An 8-foot screen? I hate you.

I own neither, but my completely unsupportable hunch is that blue-ray will win out.