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[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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an actuary makes usually makes in the range of 60-300k.

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That's one helluva range.

[Jingleheimer]

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Is there a job that combines medical doctor with math or computers?

Anyone know how much more a doctor makes than an actuary?

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Not that it is what you were asking, but if you are interested in becoming and MD for the $$$, you will likely be pretty unhappy and also a bad doctor to boot.

As has been pointed out, there are a large number of jobs which combine the medical fields with technology: BME, bioinformatics, radiology, biophysics, and so on. You could even get graduate degrees in EE, ME where your research focus was on medical devices.

There are a number of subdisciplines of bioinformatics that deal with things like genomic analysis, protein folding, image analysis and so on, so you should do some exploring to see what you like.

But for all of these fields, even if you only terminate with a Master's degree, your salary will be sufficient that you can live comfortably and you should just concentrate on job satisfaction instead of maximizing $$$. (But if you just want to maximize $$$, why not use this technical training to become a patent lawyer or an MBA. Jobs that you will likely not like but are almost guaranteed to make more.)

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[MINETZ]

im going into actuarial science... the deal /w the huge range is that when you start out you might have 1 or 2 exams passed, you have to pass 8 to technically become an actuary, after you start your job you get paid time off to study for exams and when you pass an exam you get a huge bonus, average out of college salary - 50k, avg after 4 years out of college = 100k

[StevieG]

Good points.

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But if you just want to maximize $$$, why not use this technical training to become a patent lawyer or an MBA. Jobs that you will likely not like but are almost guaranteed to make more.

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Or combine an MD with law school and join the fury of malpractice litigation that has helped push healthcare to eat up 15% of the U.S. GDP.

[theben]

yeah. i was giving an approx. range including what top actuaries make and what bottom ring out of college, 1 exam under belt actuaries make

[kurosh]

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Good points.

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But if you just want to maximize $$$, why not use this technical training to become a patent lawyer or an MBA. Jobs that you will likely not like but are almost guaranteed to make more.

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Or combine an MD with law school and join the fury of malpractice litigation that has helped push healthcare to eat up 15% of the U.S. GDP.

[/ QUOTE ]Wouldn't I be in grad school for 10 years?

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Is there a job that combines medical doctor with math or computers?


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Radiation Oncology.

[diebitter]

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Is there a job that combines medical doctor with math or computers?


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Radiation Oncology.

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Medical research. Medical Statistics is a big field too.

[mslif]

I am a graduate student in Cellular biology. The specific area I study uses a lot of math i.e. determining diffusion using partial derivative and partial differential equations. Several aspects of integral calculus are used as well. It is extremely interesting. I will be working in research, most likely stem cell research.

[rory]

do not under any circumstances focus on biology. take as much engineering and mathematics, focusing on computational modeling and numerical methods sorts of classes as you can while an undergrad.

biology you can just read a book and learn. it is a lot harder to do that with engineering and mathematics. once you have a firm grounding in engineering and math you can move onto a more biological-oriented field in graduate school and pick up what you need to know along the way.