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Hi all.
27 Year old Peace Corps volunteer going into pre-med in the fall, thinking about my future.
I'm looking into these NHSC programs and there seem to be a bunch of pros and few cons.
Pro: Work in a rural, impoverished setting. I spent two years in a village of 400 people in the jungle and loved it. Although this would be much, much, much, MUCH different, I'm going into medicine with a goal of being a medical anthropologist and address global health inequalities, so this is actually a smart career move.
Pro: Pays for medical school. Yup.
Neither pro nor con: Low-ish salary. There are people who want to be doctors who don't give a **** about money, including me and many reading this. If you pay for my med school you can give me a $50,000 salary as long as I get to practice my dream career. No golf clubs? No problem.
So you get the idea. The only con I see here is being restricted into a specialty such as peds, family med, or IM.
So my question is whether this can be skirted around in some creative way. After doing two years 0f NHSC, would one be able to redo another residency or a fellowship, or some similar plan to pursue a different path?
I'm not anti-family medicine, I just don't like the idea of having my options restricted.
Thanks for all thoughtful responses.
27 Year old Peace Corps volunteer going into pre-med in the fall, thinking about my future.
I'm looking into these NHSC programs and there seem to be a bunch of pros and few cons.
Pro: Work in a rural, impoverished setting. I spent two years in a village of 400 people in the jungle and loved it. Although this would be much, much, much, MUCH different, I'm going into medicine with a goal of being a medical anthropologist and address global health inequalities, so this is actually a smart career move.
Pro: Pays for medical school. Yup.
Neither pro nor con: Low-ish salary. There are people who want to be doctors who don't give a **** about money, including me and many reading this. If you pay for my med school you can give me a $50,000 salary as long as I get to practice my dream career. No golf clubs? No problem.
So you get the idea. The only con I see here is being restricted into a specialty such as peds, family med, or IM.
So my question is whether this can be skirted around in some creative way. After doing two years 0f NHSC, would one be able to redo another residency or a fellowship, or some similar plan to pursue a different path?
I'm not anti-family medicine, I just don't like the idea of having my options restricted.
Thanks for all thoughtful responses.