[mattkrause]

It's confusing to me that there are not more programs that "convert" biomedical PhDs/postdocs into MDs. The PhDs and postdocs have some relevant background and are clearly fairly clever and motivated.

However, I looked into this after grad school and other than a new program at Columbia, there's not much. In fact, one person told me that since it was more than 5(?) years after I took intro bio, I would need to retake those classes--despite doing bio research for the entire intervening time. It's baffling that a PhD would quality one to teach a class to medical students, but not attend it.