Career Advice in Neurology
I joined medschool with aim of being a neurologist one day, yet now I feel a bit lost. I graduated as an MBBcH student a couple of months ago, ranked 3rd in medschool and completed both usmle steps (P, 255).
But here is the confusing part, I love programming and have gone through a ton of projects for 12yrs (mostly non-medical, web development) and I even went as far as learning academic skills data structures, algorithms, DBs, etc.
I always hoped I will be able to leverage this passion alongside clinical insights (most engineers don't get there) to significantly alter care for neurology patients. This is apparently impossible in my home country anyways.
So I went for research, learnt both primary and secondary statistical analysis, scientific writing, and contributed to 14 projects (six are currently published), yet again feel this on its own is pointless (the only positive thing tho, cv-wise, is the few tools I built including a batch statistical conversion tool for meta-analysis).
So here I'm again feeling lost on how to achieve my original aim, should I just go for the traditional clinical pathway and postpone the integration part till after residency, find a research opportunity that combines both (can't find any so far, at least for an MD), or maybe there's a way to do both simultaneously.
Based on your experience, what would you recommend in my situation?