My possibilities being a biochemist [6]

This post will be something like a continuation/complement to the previous one. Here I’ll be writing about postgraduate studies.

As you can see in the post about my future as a professional, my master plan includes (and it’s an important part) the studies continuity. Anyway, biochem undergraduate practically requires at least 1 postgraduate, as is very hard (especially in Chile) to get a good job being only a biochemist without a specialty.

First of all, I’ll do the master in biochemistry that this faculty offers. This is something really good about Biochem in this university: We can do a master parallel to the undergraduate, taking the master courses in the lasts years of career. Also, you can get the undergraduate and the master WITH THE SAME THESIS (sounds good no?). In this master we receive a buff in one of four areas: proteins, clinic biochemistry, toxicology, or environmental biochemistry. I have not decided yet, I like them all. Help.

Since it’s easy to enter and near free, I’ll do this master definitely.

That’s the first postgraduate that I want, but not the only one. I have multiple ways of continuing my studies from there. I’ve been thinking about obtain the pedagogy in biology and chemistry here in this uni (principally because it offers both pedagogies in the same plan of studies). In Chile there is the scholarship “teacher vocation” for people with degrees. It’s free and it let you to get a pedagogy related to your degree studying only 1 or 2 years, depending on what your previous degree is. Well, I have not teacher vocation. But it’s free and I want to do research; it’s known that doing research gets along with doing classes.

Other way is to continue in this faculty studying the undergraduate of Chemistry and Pharmacy. This isn't a postgraduate study, but I think it would complement very well my area of interest and the 2-years common plan in addition to that I’m taking courses of that career (and I plan to keep doing it) would make it shorter to finish.

Finally, I’m planning to do a PhD related to Biotechnology-Biochemistry-Biomedicine. It will be abroad, in a country important to these areas. This is the most important part of my plan, because a PhD is absolutely necessary to be a great researcher and for doing a contribution to science and to improve the life of people and the planet.

As you can see, I have been thinking about this a big amount of time. I have so many possibilities, but I have time to choose for now.

That’s all; see you in the next post!