kirayng wrote:
In the US, there are medical researchers who hold anything from a bachelor's to a PhD. The only difference between those educated for the position is the degree of control over the experiment, diagnostics, or research one has; PhD being the one who would design experiments, conduct research and organize the lab team (this management duty may be passed on to administration in large facilities and the PhD would be a department head). There are four year programs especially designed for lab technicians who do assays, tissue prep, etc. that work in hospitals, but don't interact with the patients directly. * sorry there is a pun there! *
Thanks. Unfortunately if I wanted to be a medical researcher, I would have to do a degree in medicine, which needs a totally clean criminal records (and while I haven't ever broken the law, the section 136s done by the police ("allows a police officer to take a person whom they consider to be mentally disordered in a public place to a “place of safety”") are on my "criminal" records), so I have no chance in medicine. Besides, the interviews are rigorous and they're obsessed about "people skills", of which I have none.
But not all is bad - I am doing pharmacology in university, which requires no criminal records checks, and will hopefully end up doing drug research on psychiatric drugs (I am completely obsessed about psychopharmacology).
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27 Nov 2011, 11:51 am
