Distance Ed Master's Opportunities for Medics

[BEorP]

In case anyone would like to provide their opinion on the Disaster Medicine and Management program the site to read more about it is here: http://www.philau.edu/disastermed/

[AnthonyM83]

Public Health is always a good one.

If you're going for a PhD, though, I would just go for the PhD. You don't need to get a masters, THEN a doctorate, unless there's specific masters work you want to complete to have in your background for your doctorate.

[BEorP]

If you're going for a PhD, though, I would just go for the PhD. You don't need to get a masters, THEN a doctorate, unless there's specific masters work you want to complete to have in your background for your doctorate.

You make an excellent point. The reason I am looking at master's first is because when it comes to university graduates (or fourth year university students as I am now), I am fairly young. I don't know what I want to do with my life and know that I would like to pursue a doctoral degree at some point but I couldn't say 100% in what. A master's will be one or two years and hopefully allow me to mature as a student as a person so I can make the right choice for further education. Then the question of why not just take some time off school might come up. The reason for this is that I truly enjoy education.

[AnthonyM83]

Fair enough.

Just remember that getting life experience is one of the greatest learning opportunities of all. You can think of your post college jobs as your field internship for stuff you learned in college, then go back school when you've settled a bit. Both routes work!