Do you have to take Premed classes in college to become a Dr.?
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You don't need to declare "pre-med" as a major...but yes as a prerequisite you will need so many courses in Biology & Chemistry before entering medical school
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The answer from showersalone is good advice.\nActually, I think that you can get into a 4-year college without taking high school chemistry, but you'd better get a lot of chemistry in college if you want to get into medical school.\n\nIn short, if you don't want to take chemistry, don't plan to be a doctor.
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Frankly, any major you enjoy well enough to get good grades in, which will still allow you to get the prerequisites for medical school entry. If you enjoy the major, you'll get the grades. If you work to get the grades in the premedical prerequisites, you should do well.\n\nI have known physicians with majors in: mathematics (that would be me, among others); political science; English; music; physics (One colleague has the know-how to build a fusion bomb. We have talked shop--frightening...); pharmacology; dentistry; and of course, the dime-a-dozen chemistry and biology. Those are the ones I remember, anyhow.\n\nTake it from there. My only other counsel: get a major you can use for a living, just in case Medical School doesn't pan out. \n\n\nI'm going to major in psychology.
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no, most universities do not have medical programs, unless you are talking about nursing, which is much more common.  but as far as getting a medical degree and becoming a doctor, that is usually limited to the universities in cities.  most large state schools that are located away from metro areas have small or no medical program.
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Becoming a doctor in the United States is very difficult yes.  You must attend a four-year college and take pre-requisite classes.  Some medical schools don't require that you graduate but all prefer that you do.  If your GPA drops below 3.0 you won't stand a shot and to be competitive, you should carry a 3.5+.\n\nThen you have to take the entrance exam, or MCAT (medical college admissions test) to be admitted.  Last set of statistics I saw was that 60,000 people take it yearly for 17,000 spots.\n\nIf you're lucky enough to get in, you have 2 years of very intense studying, followed by the first in a line of three exams.  This test is called the USMLE (united states medical licensing exam).  This may be the hardest test ever devised by man.  the next two years are clinical rotations that will definitely test your mettle.\n\nwhen you finish the 4 years of medical school (and the other stages of the USMLE (some people call this test the Boards), you are a doctor, but still not ready to practice on your own.  now you have anywhere from 5-10 years (depending on your area of interest) of internship and residency and perhaps even more depending on specialty.\n\nall of this takes a lot of studying and some brains.  if you just want to get into medicine, then you can become a lab technician pretty easily.  most technical schools hand those diplomas out as if it were toilet paper.
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Premed - 4 years\nMed (DO) school : 4 years\nFP residency : 3 years\n\nThere are a lot of good DO schools.\n\nTo get into any graduate med school (DO/MD), you have to do VERY well in your premed courses. For MD school, you need the MCAT exam, I'm not sure about DO school.
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It's simple as this. YOU CAN"T!\n\nALL med schools require biology, etc.
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There really isn't a such thing as a "pre-medicine" program anymore. Most medical schools can care less about your major. They are concerned more about GPA, MCAT scores, and what you did in undergrad as far as activities. There are some undergrad programs that are geared more toward preparing you for med school, but if you don't get into med school (most people don't) there isn't very much that you can do with one of these majors. If you are looking at a place to do your undergrad, you may want to look at whether the school has an advisor especially for pre-professional students. I am a premed student and my advisor knows exactly what I need to do to get into med school. Also see if the school has an organization known as Alpha Epsilon Delta. It is a pre-preofessional honor society that has proven to be a good support system for me and allows me to know others in my class.
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If you have not finished undergraduate work then you need to take some courses that are required by every US medical school including:\n\n1 year (2 semesters or 3 quarters) of\n\n- Biology with a year of labs\n- Chemistry with a year of labs\n- Organic Chemistry with a year of labs\n- Physics with a year of labs\n- other courses in biology are strongly reccomended including\n  -physiology\n  -anatomy\n  -biochemistry\n  -neuroscience\n\nThen you will have to take a long ass test called the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) that covers all the above sciences and some verbal stuff.... it is multiple choice like all the other standardized tests.  Oh yeah, most if not all also require a bachelor's degree in any subject, but many opt for a Biology major since the pre-health requirements are in line with that major.\n\nIt is a long road and very competitive... get a GPA above a 3.5 or you will struggle to find a spot, if you really want to do it you can though.  They made it tough so that only the people that really really want to do it make it.\n\nIt is also highly reccomended to do community service and research.  Although you can start at a community college, I haven't found any community colleges that offer all of the courses needed to fulfill these bare minimum requirements.  You will have to do this at a university.\n\nGood luck.
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I would like to become a doctor, possibly an OB/GYN as well. As well as taking all required classes for high school graduation, you should definitely take biology, chemistry, physics, and anatomy/physiology (do Advanced Placement if possible to posibly exempt yourself from that college credit in order to take more classes then). Be sure to take as high mathematics courses as possible (trust me, they will come in handy). A health class is ALWAYS required for all high school students, so you need to take that. If your school has a medical program, be sure to take it (I will take it in 12th grade, I will be in the 11th grade this year). Although youshould take all high-level classes, try to place more emphasis on math and science classes. This should help you be on your way to a medical career!!
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It will take 4 years of undergraduate work taking classes that include biology, chemistry, physics, anatomy, etc...Then you have to be accepted to a medical school for another 4 years.  At the end of your schooling you'll spend another 3 years in residency as a physician under other doctors being certified as a pediatrician.  This is in the US anyways.
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That's what I want to do when I get out of college. \nDoes anyone know:\n1) What classes I need to take in high school and college-  I suggest you take your math and chem courses in high school.  If they offer foreign language, take that.  If they offer a basic Psych course, take that.\n\nIn college, you'll need to be Pre-med and as a result will have to take all of the required science-math courses.  Pre-Med is a HUGELY competitive program.\n\n\n2) What a good college for this would be-  any college with a strong pre-med and child development program.  I would look toward Private Schools.  They test to place better on the assessment tests.\n\n3) Do I really have to become a medical doctor first (like one who works in hostipitals)\n\nYes and no.  You'll be required to intern and the hospital is an excellent place for internship.  Private practices usually tend to fail within the first few years unless the doc is working two jobs.\n\n4) about how long will i be in school if I go year round (no summer breaks) \n\nYear-round school is expensive.  Typically, schools charge by the class.  In the summer, classes tend to run more than in-session classes (unless you take your summer classes as a community college, and then, you have to make sure all of the credits will transfer).\n\nI suggest you look into a school that runs in quarters not semesters.\n\nHowever, unlessyou're Doogie Houser, expect to graduate with an undergraduate Pre-Med degree within 3-4 years.\n\nMasters programs can run from 1-2 years.  Pre-med from 2-4 years.
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You need a college degre, which usually takes about 4 years.  You then go to medical school, which is another 4 years.  Then you have a residency, which varies depending on the program.  It can take 3-5 years.\nYou will need to take sciences classes to get into medical school.  Biology, chemistry, physics, and calculus are required by most medical schools.
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It is not too late. You do not have to redo college if you have already gone, you will just have to make up the prerequisites. The requirements for medical school are usually 1 year of general chemistry, 1 year of biology, 1 year of organic chemistry, and 1 year of physics (which will require calculus.) If you do not have a bachelor's degree, you will have to earn one, but you can do any major you like as long as you fulfill the premed requirements. (My best friend is a doctor and she was a history major at Columbia.) After that you will have to take the MCAT test and then attend a 4-year medical school and then get accepted to a hospital to do a residency.
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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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If you've always wanted to be a doctor and you still want to be a doctor, then you should definitely pursue it.  You only need to take one year of college math as a prerequisite to medical school and you can get a tutor for that class if you're really bad at it. You can major in whatever you want and just take the required courses to get into med school: 1 year physics, 1 year chemistry, 1 year organic, 1 year biology, 1 year math, 1 year english (1 semester biochem and 1 semester genetics required by about 9 med schools).  You'll need to make sure your grades are high and your MCAT score is above average as well as staying active in other activities and being well-rounded. If it's always been your dream, then you should do it.  You are lucky that you know what you want to do.  Some people don't figure it out until they're 40 years old and then they feel it's too late to pursue their dreams.  You are young and know what you want.  Take advantage of this!
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Actually, NO. do NOT do a nursing assoc. degree and try to do premed. it's a waste of your time. a lot of those courses will NOT transfer to the 4-year program. Pre-meds and nursing students take different versions of bio, microbio, chem, and anatomy/phys. If you try to do bother curricula, you will wind up repeating classes.\n\nif you wanna go to med school, take medical pre-requisites:\n1 year general chem w/lab\n1 year general bio w/lab\n1 year general physics w/lab\n1 year organic chem w/lab\n1 year English\n\nYou can take all these courses at a community college. just ask the guidance counselor at the school for the course numbers of classes that can be transferred to a 4-year college for pre-med.