Like many of you out there, I imagine this period of social distancing and self-quarantine has produced a fair bit of reflection. Perhaps the worst part of watching the crisis unfold is feeling like I have nothing to contribute apart from an order to sit on my couch and not infect others. I've become addicted to the excellent MedCram videos put out by Dr. Seheult on the ongoing pandemic and find myself excited about a new and important frontier of knowledge that I haven't felt in a long time. If only we'd all listened to Bill Gates years ago.
For the fullstack developers, data engineers and devops specialists among us, with perhaps a computer science or engineering background, where are some of the most promising areas in the biomedical sciences that we could realistically transition to mid-career? What would the employment prospects be? What (online) courses would you enroll in to start getting the necessary background?
