I felt I could function as a bridge between basic research and clinical medicine, since I had an understanding of and training in both. Dartmouth felt like a comfortable and welcoming place to spend the next eight years of my life. I wanted the broad, clinically applicable knowledge base of an M.D. and the training in critical thinking that is provided by a Ph.D. program. To assess the problems of changing diseases in order to keep up with them.
Physician researchers are the people who drive the field of medicine forward.
To have a clinical career that allows me to participate in research either directly or through collaborations with bench scientists. The practice of medicine is not quite science, not quite art. The integration of our occasionally glorious western medicine and the humbler, older eastern or alternative medicine. Besides, the area is absolutely beautiful and I knew that I could live here the seven years it would take to get the dual degrees. I worked for a couple of years in the Peace Corps in Guatemala with the Conservation of Natural Resources team.