Hello guys this is my second post. I was hoping some of the skilled IT guys in the forum could contribute.
I'm currently in medical school in Mexico and I'm about to finish school. I only have like 18 months left before graduating. After that I have to do one year of social service for the country. (this can go from being send to a god forgotten shit hole with 300 indians, to doing research in my city).
After being rotating in different hospitals and seeing patients I have realized or seen a glimpse about the practice of medicine. My days are filled with lots of boring paperwork, and the interactions with the patients are shortlived. A few days ago a professor in my school gave a data about big data and data mining in the context of preoperative surgical safety.
I was amazed by the information and I wanted to ask here if its difficult for a physician to do a career change and do something in big data industry after graduating med school (I will be graduating at 24).
p.s: I have already emailed the guy so I can see if I can do research with him in bioinformatics.
Do any of you know anything about the field, how easy is to get in? What are the credentials? How is the salary? Can you do the job location-independent? Does it lend itself for entrepreneurship? Do you think I would be in disadvantage for being a physician.
I'm currently in medical school in Mexico and I'm about to finish school. I only have like 18 months left before graduating. After that I have to do one year of social service for the country. (this can go from being send to a god forgotten shit hole with 300 indians, to doing research in my city).
After being rotating in different hospitals and seeing patients I have realized or seen a glimpse about the practice of medicine. My days are filled with lots of boring paperwork, and the interactions with the patients are shortlived. A few days ago a professor in my school gave a data about big data and data mining in the context of preoperative surgical safety.
I was amazed by the information and I wanted to ask here if its difficult for a physician to do a career change and do something in big data industry after graduating med school (I will be graduating at 24).
p.s: I have already emailed the guy so I can see if I can do research with him in bioinformatics.
Do any of you know anything about the field, how easy is to get in? What are the credentials? How is the salary? Can you do the job location-independent? Does it lend itself for entrepreneurship? Do you think I would be in disadvantage for being a physician.