Mary Hawking wrote:
> >Sad thing is - she's invested so much time and effort already there's a
> >huge temptation to throw good years after bad and carry on. As we all know
> >to our continuing cost.
> I didn't see the program - but at the same stage,I couldn't *afford* to
> Anyone prepared to publish suggestions of possible avenues of escape?
> Mary
> >
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As one who has recently trod that path (the last degree received two months
ago):
1) Clinical work long enough to save some money and find a
fellowship/scholarship to go off somewhere interesting to get your MPH - over
here suggestions inc. Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Chapel Hill, Univ. of Texas. (Get
your BTA and MPH in one year...). This is NOT as outlandish as it might sound.
Harvard accepted a (very) rural GP out of school 20 years (me) and after the
MPH sent me off to London and Belfast on a years' fellowship (UCL and Queens).
Pretty skinny pickings for self and spouse, but doable.
2) Use the MPH to get post as Chief Medical Officer in Bermuda or the Cayman
Islands or another post which is a combination of clinical practice + admin.
work :-)
- or -
use MPH to get fellowship/scholarship to further degree, working locums on the
occasional weekend in ER or surgery somewhere to supplement income.
3) Find a job that offers a moderate amount of work for an obscene amount of
money, the reverse of what you currently have. (That's the part I'm still
working on....).
4) Do it before the current job burns you out or buries you (posthumous
scholarships are tough to manage.)
You don't *waste* your clinical experience and you retain the choice of
carrying on with as much (or as little) clinical work as you wish while opening
up some new avenues :>)).
Besides, it is a lot more fun the second time.
Phil
Philip G. Dunlap, D.O., M.P.H., Ph.D.
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Natick, MA, 01760, USA
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