i'm speaking hypothetically here, i know u cant get in to med school without a bachelors degree, but that seems pretty stupid to me. most of the bs they make u take in college has nothing to do with medicine like philosophy or sociology and similar useless crap.
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No.  First off, the MCAT is not a pass/fail test.  It is a standardized test, which means you are rated against your peers, rather than against some absolute criteria.  Second, your undergraduate college experience is very important.  It teaches you discipline (or screen you for the amount of discipline you have) and serves as a necessary indicator for adcoms to sense your ability to handle a tough workload.\n\nWhen you get right down to it, MCAT is largely a test of aptitude, comprehension, and the ability to read effectively and accurately.  Med school, by contrast, is a great deal of memorization.  Doing great on the MCAT might indicate you ability to understand material and problem-solve from a scientific standpoint, but it says nothing about your ability to become a slave to a brutal machine for four years of intensive study and come out still standing.\n\nThere are very good reasons why the MCAT is not the sole determining factor in med school admissions.
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Most people I know who went to medical school majored in biology, chem, psychology, or biomedical enginnering. It's probably easier since what you're studying overlaps with medicine, obviously. However, I'm sure there have been others who majored in English, but ended up applying to medical school. You just have to find room in your schedule to fit those classes.  Most students prepare and take their MCATs during their junior year. Also, I think it's a good idea to volunteer in the hospital and shadow a doctor. It shows how much you want to be a doctor. Also, grades are very important, so study hard, and get excellent letters of recommendation from professors who know you personally.
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It's like why you study economy when you want to make any bussiness. We study something, because we NEEDED it! That alone can makes sense. I can't understand if you don't feel the need to understand how's your body work, what disease is it and what type of microorganism that caused it and what treatment is best to heal it, and such.
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Going to med school?\nI suggest you read the books then...
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The teaching in medical school is hardly "basic" as your comment stated. Medicine is such a vast field that it is impossible to teach medical students everything they need to know. That's why they have to do residency for more training in their specialty be it pediatrics or surgery. The business side of medicine is learned through experience and talking to mentors, associates, & colleagues. Knowing which test to order & what medicine to prescibe is an integral part of their training. However, physicians are often second guessed by patients who often want more (expensive) testing or drugs that they do not need. If I only have a dollar for everytime a patient has told me "my (place relative or acquaintance here) had the exact same thing, and it turned out that he/she had (place extremely rare condition here)..."
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There is no "pre-med major" at either school but both have many opportunities for people interested in becoming doctors, especially since both have medical schools and hospitals that undergraduates can volunteer in.  There are also "career services" staff that can advise students about med school requirements and such.
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No and don't take it at all. I didn't and went to BCC in environmental science then to Hampshire Collage. Waste of time and money don't worry just do good in school.
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Uhm, yeah but there's a lot more to it than that. You still have to study a standard curriculum. You can substitute SOME life experience for credit, but this usually involves a long petitioning process whereby you must present some evidence that it substitutes for a class.
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Ok...I am a pre-med student wiht a major in Biology and a minor in Chemistry.  Pre-med means that you will be taking the required courses for getting accepted into a medical school. It is very difficult and stressful. I wish you the best! oh and you can major in anything you want as long as you take the pre-med courses on the side you'll do good. Also it looks good when you have volunteered or are actively involved in organizations or clubs. Apply to a college who has a good reputation for preparing students for Med School. Good Luck!!!
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There is no undergraduate degree in Medicine in the US. \n\nThe usual course of study is that a student gets a four year undergraduate degree in a related field like Biology or Chemistry.  Technically, there is no preset major -- but there are several courses that are considered required to get into medicine.\n\nAfter getting an undergraduate degree, the student takes another four years to get an MD.  At this point, the student is a medical doctor.  He then enters an internship/residence program that takes another three to five years.  For course, he gets paid for this.
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you will need to go to med school for like 10 yrs first..and you have to get really good grades..come on, you'd be dealing with peoples lives!! It's very intense studing..you think you're up for it??
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They are separate classes, but I think you're worrying too much. Medical schools are run by smart people (big surprise) who know there's more to a person than GPA and MCAT score,  though of course it doesn't hurt to have good numbers in both areas. Also, pre-med students as a general rule have the perception that it's much more difficult than it actually is to get into a (if perhaps not your first choice of) medical school. Roughly half of all applicants go on to medical school, and if you look around at your college's pre-med folks, I bet you can tell which half will and which half won't go.
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That sounds a bit illegal to me, why would you want a degree you didn't earn?
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I don't think we should have those prerequisites.  I'm currently a junior pre-med, and I'm nearly done with those classes, but I hated every single one of those classes (except maybe biology).  There were so many instances when I thought, "when am I ever going to use calculus during my rotations as a doctor?"  Or "when will I be studying the rotations of alkanes when talking to my patient?"\n\nUniversities taking our money?  Maybe.  But I believe the reason why they want us to take those courses is so that they have an idea of how we perform in the hard sciences.  It's gives them a means of determining who is serious and committed enough to go through the extremely difficult task load in med school.  Those who can't take it as undergraduates end up changing their major.  And there are probably studies somewhere that say that if a student can't handle hard science in his/her undergraduate career, then he/she will not be able to successfully go through med school.  Make sense?\n\nThe classes help give a broader understanding or the underlying idea of how the body works and what chemicals it reacts to, etc., but I guess it's a necessary evil in the pre-med process until med school admissions officers can think of a different way of determining who is worthy to go to med school in the first place.  \n\nThere are programs, however, that allow students to go straight from high school to a program through which the student can become a doctor in six years.  One of my closest friends in high school is currently in the program, and he is in the first year of med school (or its equivalent), and he didn't even have to take the MCAT.\n\nIf there is another method for med school admission officers for determining who is worthy enough to go to med school, then they'd probably implement it.  Until then, we're stuck with those classes whether we like it or not.
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To a great extent it has to do with personal choice.  Mathmatics, physics, and hard sciences are all majors that require logical and critical thinking.  Journalism, liberal arts, and arts degrees can be achieved without such logical abilities.  So while a logical thinker could excel in any of these programs, they are more likely to find frustration being surrounded by those without their abilities.  Those without the capacity for logical thought cannot excel in the sciences.  I am sure I am going to get a lot of thumbs down for this from those unable to follow the simple logic.
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I have a good friend who is an ER Surgeon and spent like 100 years in med school. She says no way.
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<>I certainly hope you are NOT in some type of medical study program.  If so, please have the good sense to drop out or change majors, before you really have to treat someone.