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CHICAGO (AP) - A 21-year-old Chicago man who began college at age 9 and medical school three years later is about to become the youngest student ever awarded an M.D. by the University of Chicago.
Sho Yano, who was reading at age 2, writing at 3 and composing music at 5, will graduate this week from the Pritzker School of Medicine, where he also received a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and cell biology.
Yes, I rotated through University of Chicago's Pediatric ER as an ER 4th year resident and I heard from the pediatric residents that they were excited that he was coming.
The joke is that he has probably read the book on pediatrics before starting his intern year there. He's headed to University of Chicago for a pediatric residency.
This is pretty amazing. What's quite sad is that in any normal country a regular student will finish medical school only two years later than this guy, who went to college for like 12 years.
This is pretty amazing. What's quite sad is that in any normal country a regular student will finish medical school only two years later than this guy, who went to college for like 12 years.
No, a typical med school grad is at least 26, if he/she graduated from college at age 22, which is the standard for many applicants..
No, a typical med school grad is at least 26, if he/she graduated from college at age 22, which is the standard for many applicants..
Yeah I was just suggesting that in most countries a person doesn't have to take a completely useless 4 year undergraduate degree in order to study medicine.
Have had 6-yr BS/MD pgms for past ~30yrs producing 21-23yo MD grads....so nothing special w/this age MD....and not sure anyone really high IQ in past 50yrs in US ever aspired to be an MD
In modern era few really smart kids aspire to be an MD (or M&A lawyer@Cravath or CS professor@Stanford or GS investment banker or GS trader) at any age (and certainly don't think anyone smart ever aspired to be a pediatrician)....far more intellectually and economically interesting routes like software or hedge funds have drawn smartest over past 20+yrs...can't have intellectual freedom until one first achieves economic freedom
Already lots of retired 30-something engineers or hedgies in places like SV....true definition of prodigy is one's liquid net worth at age 30 or 40....hell, lots of today's prodigies are college dropouts or Stanford CS PhD dropouts
Suspect in coming yrs truly smartest will go straight from some mediocre suburban public HS (GED perhaps at age 10) and online, self-teaching to work at some SV start-up or GOOG/AAPL@ some $200K/yr starter engineer job and simply bypass the Luddite college scam....disintermediation and creative destruction at its best
It's true. If your endpoint is tons of money and opportunity for great expansion and growth and creative outlets, medicine is not the career I'd pick.
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