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...Geesaman, who advises about 50 pre-med students a year, said he tries to give them a realistic picture of the challenges of going into academia...
According to Geesaman, many students are interested in entering joint M.D./Ph.D. programs, but he said he tends somewhat to discourage such a course of study because of the length of time it takes to complete...
...Geesaman also said graduate students often have to spend several years as post-doctoral fellows before they can get faculty positions...
...Geesaman echoed Bossert's sentiment that many humanities concentrators are choosing to go to professional schools over graduate programs...
...Almost half the students who are applying to medical school are coming from a humanities background from Harvard," Geesaman said, adding that medicine is probably a more secure profession than academia...