Episode 102 – Dallas, MD/PhD/MBA Student at University of Utah School of Medicine

"It’s never a bad idea to have goals and ambitions and to try to reach for them. I think the folly is when people set unrealistic expectations, or they set expectations and when they’re not able to meet them, they don’t have a back-up plan.” Dallas became involved with research during her undergrad years and felt that it was the frontier of medicine. That realization led her to apply to MD/PhD programs. We talk about her triple crown and the time involved in accomplishing that task. She discusses the need to be resilient and what it was like to watch her colleagues continue to move through medical school when she left to pursue her PhD. Finally, we talk about her decision to specialize in a field very few know of, Occupational Medicine.