BPB Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Has anyone thought about completing a dual degree/ is in the process of this? How feasible is this and do you find this degree useful for your career goals? I am considering pursuing a dual degree in molecular and medical genetics (PhD) in addition to obtaining my MPAS. I begin PA school this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted March 16, 2016 Administrator Share Posted March 16, 2016 There's a program that lets you do this? I would think PA would be too different from a Ph.D. to have a formal dual degree program, because there's not a whole lot of overlap. I knew a guy who tried to do an MD/M.Div., but Harvard wouldn't let him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BPB Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share Posted March 16, 2016 Yep! It's just longer of course and you do extra rotations during the curriculum to keep up on your clinical skills Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marktheshark89 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Wake has a program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MT2PA Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 I imagine if a program offers it, it must be feasible in some way. Unless, of course, you are the guinea pig cohort testing it out. I don't think I would pursue this unless it REALLY was necessary for my career goals. There was a poster a while back looking to do PA/PhD in order to do clinical research and i guess that would be a reasonable thought process. I just personally don't see the fields overlapping enough to do it; my only reason would be due to interest in the material and I don't know that the ROI would be worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator True Anomaly Posted March 20, 2016 Moderator Share Posted March 20, 2016 My program tried doing this about 10 years ago- one person did actually complete a PA/PhD, and then a couple years later they enrolled a couple current PhD students into the PA program with the idea that they'd complete the PhD after the PA portion- neither of them did complete their PhD though, but both work as PAs. To my knowledge, it's no longer offered as an option as it was a trial that didn't go so well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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