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问：先说一下我自己的背景：专科毕业，后读了硕士，一直做基础，心血管药理方面的。干了几年有些技术，可惜没有什么SCI的文章，但是前年在美国作过大半年Postdoc，所去的机构据说在美国基础医学排名前十以内，记得当时导师说有那里的资力在美国任何地方应该都能找到工作了。后来因为一些个人原因提前回国，因此时间太短了仍是没文章。现在想再次出国，去欧洲看看，本来是想直接读PHD的，看了您的帖子说可以有更好的方式，因此很有兴趣，想在这里请问applelhh，以你的经验看来，1、象我这样的背景有无可能直接申请到英国的POSTDOC？ 如果能申请到的话，我也想先做POSTDOC再读博，虽说要多一年的时间，但想来还是应该会比在美国好过些，美国的博士是很难读的。而且我家里情况不是很好，现在我是主要的经济来源，如果能以做POSTDOC的方式又完成学业，那是最理想的了，因为可以多有些收入给家里。我现在想去考雅思，正准备着。也想再问applelhh网友2、我是否有必要考完雅思后再去试图申请呢？还是应该现在就可以？有个雅思成绩是否机会可能会多些？再者，怎么样知道那些能提供博士后职位的导师是否能带博士？我怕万一找到个导师给了博后OFFER又不能带博士，那就会有些麻烦了。能怎么样知道呢？可以直接问吗？不过想想好象有些不妥，问人家要工作又直接想读学位，会不会留下不良影响？最后一个问题是请问applelhh网友是否知道3、心血管研究方向有那些比较好的学校或是导师可以申请呢，我在这方面有做过心脏功能，也做过血管的功能研究。谢谢！

答：1, your research background is quite good to be honest especially the abroad experience though you don't have any paper published, I think it should be OK to apply for a postdoc position if your luck is not too bad.
2, go straight for postdoc first, don't need any english tests, at most half a year later you will know results. Then decide what's the next step. My own opinion is if you unfortunately fail to get a postdoc position in the UK, don't bother to pursue PhD here for you'd better to have GRE and Ielts marks both for more successful application and it's getting harded and harder to apply half scholarship, let alone full scholarship so as you mentioned you are the main economic resouce for your family, it doesn't suit u to be a student in the UK.
3, don't ask even a word about part-time PhD when you contact your boss. Usually most professors and Senior lecturers in the UK are qulified to be a supervisor.
4, I really have no idea about cardiovascular area, not able to help u at this point. But you could check on Pubmed and find out papers associated with that field and then compare the departments and professors from UK, that should give you a rough idea.
hope that will be a little helpful to u.

问：to applelhh ，我是在读博士一年级,想申请英国的博士。联系了那边的教授以后，他说要和我电话联系。我的专业背景一般，没有什么好的PAPER，已经考过G/T，但是我的口语不行，我们电话面试的话，我应该怎么办啊？

答：don't worry about your english, you still have enough time to prepare. There are many interview questions online that should give u a rough idea. Usually they are interested in----
1, your background, what have you done before.
2, why do you want to go abroad.
3, why do you have interest in their lab, how did u know the lab. How much do you know about it.
4, do u have any plan for your project.
5, what's your personality? how can you cooperate with other colleagues smoothly.
Remember:
1, confidence is the most important key for interview, don't be panic in any circumstances.
2, the interview won't take long time, so once he starts, you just try you best to talk as long as you can, don't give him more chances to ask more questions. Speak clearly and slowly.
3, foreign devils know very well that most chinese from mainland are not able to speak very well English, so they don't expect to see how good your english is. They just want to know u a little bit through the interview before they offer u a position, they need to make sure if you can understand what they say, if you are capable of doing later project, if you can harmoniously work with other people, that's it.
good luck, i m sure you can do it.

问：applelhh :
i read all posts that you wrote before. It's so useful for me.
i am staying in USA as J2 dependent for 6 months and i am already 36~37years old. I have been a doctor in a city hospital in China for 15 years.
my husband doesnt want to come back to China again, so i must stay at here. He want me to apply for phd study here, but i think my age is too old to do that. If i do that, i will be 42 years old when i graduate from university. some classmates who come here earlier suggested me to work as a technician here first and prepare for usmle test. but my english level is so bad i think that could not conmunicate with natives effectively in 1 or 2 years. i had GRE score that will be overdue in 7 months.
If you are in my situation, what will you do? please give me some more instructive suggestion

答：hi caffeinism,
If I were u,
1, put all your efforts to improve your english, attend all the english courses you could sit, grasp every tiny chances to communicate with others. At the same time concentrate on preparing USMLE. No work, no other things, just those two.
2, or just like somebody suggested--work as a technician first and prepare for usmle test in the meantime. Don't worry your english, i think if you set your mind to learn it and open your mouth bravely, don't care if lose face, you are able to make huge improvement in half a year.
3, or apply for PhD, meanwhile prepare for USMLE, you could drop off 3 years later when you get your master degree.
4, or if you have some savings, get a technician or postdoc position first, in the meantime prepare for GMAT, then study MBA that just need 1 year, then work in some companies associated with medical research stuff.
hope that will be a little helpful to u.

问：你好！很仔细的看了你的整个帖子，很感谢你给大家这么多好的建议。我把自己的情况和想法也说一下。我去年硕士毕业，女生，学的是肿瘤学，现在在一家编辑部上班，没有搞临床。干了一年觉得不适合自己，还想再上学，到国外转一圈再找一家医院。现在想去英国，想像版主所建议的先申请博士后，然后再上在职的博士。我现在想问：1、我还需要靠托福或GRE后才能申请吗？
2、应该在哪里找招收博士后的信息？3、我硕士时做的实验结果不是很好，就仅仅掌握了细胞培养、流式和免疫组化方面的技术，章在国内发了几篇。4、像我这种情况申请的几率有多大。

答：Did u really read my post carefully? For I said clearly if you are going to apply for a postdoc position you don't need any english scores. Futher I said also very clearly you could go to Pubmed to search all the papers associated with your previous project then contact corresponding authors to see if they have positions available. Sorry to say that and I didn't mean to blame u but I do hope all of you could read it through completely and carefully before asking questions.
In terms of your 3rd and 4th questions, actually I answered very similar ones before but never mind say that again. Research background is very important but not that important, since you have a few papers published I think that's a quite good experience no matter what kind of research skills you know. The most important thing is to convince them you are capable of doing the job they offer to u.
speaking of if you could succeed to get a position I really have no idea as I don't know u at all, there are many other factors play quite important roles in applying for a position, like your english level, communicating skills, your referrence letters, your personality, etc. Different professors may be interested in different sides so you just do what you need to do with 100% efforts, then wait and see.

问：applelhh 您好！非常感谢你对大家热心无私的帮助！我很受启发和感动！想向你请教一下自己一直困惑迷茫的问题：

基本情况：1、我七年临床硕士第6年，08年毕业，非常想去国外 （尤其美国）增 长见识，提高自己的能力，总之想趁年轻多拼搏一下。2、 但是家庭经济情况并不好，所以想毕业后出国几年圆自己的一个梦想，增加自己的实力，然后回国找份临床的工作，好好的赡养母亲。3、尚无paper，准备考6G10T。非常想跟applelhh请教一下去国外读博士和做博士后两条路的投入产比，具体是：

1、时间：美国的博士要读五年吗？博士后呢？

2、收获：我理解的是：读博士能体验美国的校园文化，有相关的具体课程和教授教你怎样来做科研和培养能力。而博士后是社会工作，完全靠自己，解决导师交待的任务，比较辛苦，学的东西较狭隘。不知是否这样？我很焦急想多了解下前路情况。
　　　　　　　
3、费用：我理解的是：博士要靠争取奖学金来交学费和生活费博士后不但不用交学费还可拿工资，很划算！不知对否？

4、前途：我的终极目标是回国来当大夫，找个稳定的工作，不知读博和做博士后哪个更有利于回国后找工作？　（这对现在的我决定走哪条路来说非常的重要，当然也不排除以后想法会变）

5、最后，最重要的一条：我这条件出去的可能性大吗？

答：zhaorong051,
As you said, your aim is to be a clinician in China, right? before that you want to go abroad to improve your apptitute, enrich your horizons and by the way save some money, right? I have to tell you if you are determined to be a clinician in China, don't go aboad right after your graduation, otherwise I don't think you are able to pick up a clinical job plus you won't be admitted by hospital either. So after your graduation, there are two ways for you according to my knowledge ( there may be other better ways I don't know)

1. It's 5 years for PhD in the States. No exact time for Postdoc.

2. In theory, sounds like that, but in reality, not like that. In the States, both PhD and postdoc work in labs and have to work very hard, they usually just have 14 days holiday, while in the UK we have 39 days. There may be some seminars and social settings, some of which are especially for students, others for staffs.

3.that's right.　　
　　　　　　　　　　　
4. explained this question at the very beginning, read it carefully for you are really confused.

5. this question didn't make sense.



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