what major do you recommend as pre-professional undergraduates in preparation for medicine?
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NEVER choose a major that is chock full of other pre-meds (like biochem -- totally do NOT take that girl's advice!!!). The competition is too stiff, and it gets stressful, not to mention your GPA will suffer.\n\nThe trick is to be a humanities major so you can ace the classes and pad your GPA while you focus your real brainpower on the prerequisite classes (math, bio, chem, etc.). Medical schools pay no attention to what major you studied. They only care about your science GPA and ho it compares to your overall GPA. A lot of pre-meds are science geeks and actually fare poorly in humanities classe.s this is BAD. But a lot of humanities-inclined people flounder in science classes, and this is WORSE. If oyu can be humanities and show that you rock science, the admissions committee will favor you for being talented and WELL-ROUNDED. I capitalize because it's important to be WELL-ROUNDED.\n\nA greater proportion of med school matriculants have BA degrees in English than BS degrees in engineering. That should be food for thought.\n\nAnd for extra preparation, if you go into humanities, you can still take anatomy, physiology, and upper-division biology classes as electives.
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you should major in either chemistry or nucler medicine
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Majors that help when you get into Med school are biology, pre-med and chemistry. You can literally major in anything and get accepted into Med school but those 3 majors are decided advantage in Med school. Pharmacology and the biochemistry areas are the most difficult areas for most medical students. \n\nAs for what school, you can be in any accredited collage but the better known schools will be a slight advantage. Going to Ivy league will help. \n\nIt is very important for you to get good grades. Your MCAT is the MOST important aspect. Start studying possibly in your freshman year. If there is ever one test in your entire life that is truely important it is your MCATs if you really want to be a doctor. Pediatrics is a competitive field to get into, not as bad as trying to be an Orthopod or a surgeon. Still be prepared to be family practice as an alterntive. You still work with kids and are still a Doc. Making it through med school is hard enough. Not sure how hard it is to switch to pediatrics afterwards but I suspect it is quite possible. The key things are getting into med school and making it through it. I'm going to paste some tips on becoming a Doc from a previous answer into this one. I have seen the whole thing first hand with my ex. Her struggle to go from Blue collar family to Doc was informitive and inspiring. \n\nFirst keep your record spotless. No memberships in political or crimanal orgizations. No reference to drugs at all. Stay away from anything contraversial. Do not join anything that is ethnic or political in nature. You might get away with membership in a political parties org but thats taking an unnecessary risk. Not matter how innocent it might seem to you it is possibly contraversial and could hurt you in interviews. Join all the clubs you want after you become a Doc.\n\nGenerally pharmacists do extremely well in Med school. I would recomend this route to anybody who is not brilliant in school. It means taking longer to become a Doc but it will be a huge help down the road. Both in deciding if you really want to become a Doc and in getting to that goal.\n\nGet into a decent college. It helps if your major is Pre-med or biology. Chemistry is not a bad major either. There is no requirement so technically you can major in Phys Ed and still be eligible. What you major in WILL affect your interviews. So it is important to either have a major that will help you in Med school or be very good in interviewing to get around the damage done by a major not associated with medical students. Every year hundreds or thousands make it into med school with majors like Law, English lit, etc. You may want to do this to bulk up your grades if you are extremely well suited to another major.\n\nAfter doing very well through your bachelors. Just gettting yoru degree will not be enough. You do not have to be a strait A student either. The better your grades the easier it will be to be accepted into medical school. Involvement in certain organizations can help as well. Anything medical, intellectual or that strikes a chord with the interviewer is good. Avoid anything contraversial. If if the interviewer agrees with you politically Doctors are supposed to be objective.\n\nStart studying for your MCATs as a freshman in college. If you do not make at least a certain score on them and these are very difficult exams you are not going to get into Med school in the US. The better you do the easier it will be to be accepted. If you are female, a minority or have a special story you can make it with respectable MCAT scores possibly. Depends on how many of your exception are appying that given year and what their scores are like. There is a program or at least was several years ago that allowed certain minorities to get extra help and acceptance of minorities with less than minium scores. The program gave them extra time on tests, sliding scales on exam scores and other help to promote diversity among doctors. Still nobody glides thr
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Spend a couple of days shadowing people in medical field areas that you are interested in.  Ask them lots of questions and be very observant.  There are plenty of other ares in the medical field that you may want to consider, such as therapy disciplines (occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech language pathology).\n\nIf you are just starting college, take a wide variety of general ed. credits and this may help you to figure out what you really want to study.  And don't feel like you have to pick a major during your first or second year of school.  Take your time to figure out a field you truly have passion for and that you are willing to spend the time working to attain.\n\nBe aware that many medical field majors require a tremendous load of biology, science, and anatomy classes.  If you don't feel like this is an area that you come by naturally, really think about it.  Also, many medical majors require that you complete clinical practicums, internships, and externships- these take a lot of time and students do not typically get paid for these.
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Well, pre-med isnt a major, its just what you call yourself while you're getting some degree to get into med school. I could list the top programs though that get people into medical schools the best...Cal-Berkeley, Michigan-Ann Arbor, John Hopkins-Maryland, Vanderbilt-Nashville, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Penn, I hear Northwestern-Evanston Illinois is really good.
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IT doesn't matter what your major is, as long as you have taken the pre-req courses for med school and gotten excellent marks. THe main thing is to get excellent marks in those pre-req courses. Everything else is secondary to that.
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If you really wnat to become a doctor then Pre-med is the way to go.  It wiil prepare you for the rigors of med school.  If you're really not sure, your 1st year should be loaded with general eduacation hours, so hopefully you'll catch on to an area that you feel is what you want to study.\nIf you're concerned about the costs, apply for FAFSA, and every scholarship that you can.  Also, consider community college for the 1st two years and knock out your gen-ed requirements (CC's are typically less expensive), consider public (state) schools.  Private schools are more expensive.\n\nGood luck!
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To be a medical doctor, you have to be trained in a medical school. It is a long and arduous process. \n\nTo prepare for this, one should study as hard as possible in school and get good grades, especially in the sciences. One should study biology if possible. If you can get some sort of internship ahead of time helping in a medical lab, it can be helpful.
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Typing would be one.....just kidding.  Check this out.\nStudents planning to major in pharmacology enter as a biological sciences premajor and take a common core curriculum of introductory biology, general chemistry, mathematics, physics, and organic chemistry. Students should complete this preparatory coursework in their freshman and sophomore years. Following successful completion of seven of these courses, students may advance from biology premajor to full major status. The pharmacology major requires completion of upper division coursework in biochemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, and genetics. Students round out their degree by selecting electives in molecular and cellular biology, neurobiology, biochemical pharmacology, physiology and developmental biology. Students should review the full requirement sheet for the major they intend to declare and plan their schedules accordingly
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Go to college and study pre-med. Then go to medical school.
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Pre-med isnt a major. They dont have a pre-med major but all you need to major in, is biology or biochem. Anything that will allow you to get your pre-requisites for med school and allow you to get a degree at the same time. A degree in biology or a double major in biology/chem will give you that. Thats all pre-med is.
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There is no real set of classes at the high school level as you need to do a Bachelor's first before medical school which is a Graduate level program.\n\nAt the undergraduate level (bachelors) you need to pick a major that lends itself to Med School, this can be pre-med or not but you must fulfill the physical science and math requirements for Med School either within or in addition to the undergrad major you choose.\n\nMy best advice is to look at what you want to do with your medical degree AFTER med school and decide backward from there which undergrad supports both that endeavor AND getting into Med school best.\n\nFor example if you want to be a "doctor without boarders" then I'd suggest Anthropology or Sociology with Biology or Pre-Med as a minor. If you want to be a Gynocologist you might want to have as an undergraduate major or minor Women's Studies. \n\nIn any event any AP Science or Math (save maybe Physics and Trigiometry) is related to one degree or another to medicine so I'd recommend those at the high school level as they make it easier to confront the higher level of the same material once you are in college.
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College major usually is not a deciding factor by med school on admission.  You should definitely ace on your MCAT, have a high GPA and do tons of extracurricular activities.  As far as nuclear medicine is concern, it's really remotely related to physics.  All nuclear medicine physician are basically radiologist that specialize in nuclear medicine (mainly bone scan), most are not experts at physics.  So in conclusion, just pick a college major that interest you.
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If you want to become a dermatologist you should major in biology and look into a premed program.
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I just recently got accepted to Florida State University and I am planning to major in pre-med (probably molecular microbiology if you want to get technical) and eventually get into med school there and study sports medicine, cardiology, or neurology. I later want to move to Saint Louis so I can be closer to my favorite sports team the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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I always tell pre-meds to avoid pre-med majors. why? because they're full of PRE-MEDs!!!\n\nDo an easy major and you will have a lot less pressure and competition to deal with. Do your pre-reqs for med school and take a lot of neurosci and psych classes. Psych is actually a good major for pre-meds, so if that interests you, go there. but avoid BIOpsych because it's a pre-med major.\n\nIf you can, you should do a lot of related extra-curriculars. Volunteer in a psych ward. Do research in a psychology lab or neuro lab. Shadow some psychiatrists. Volunteer as a peer counselor next year. That will make you look really good to medical schools.
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Pre-med would be more to do with the medical, possibly MD, elements required for advanced studies.\n\nThe entire health professions field now includes MANY specialties, however, so pre-HEALTH could be a broader program, including a broader range of studies.\n\nThe difference will vary, of course, with the individual school curricula.\n\nBest wishes, the world always needs GOOD medical/health care! :)