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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Geezus. It’s called PREREQUISITES people. Of course all applicants had to have taken the same prerequisite classes. OY![/quote]

Um, prereq is just an abbreviation, dude.  Most creative writing, econ, education majors do not also take bio + lab, 2 semesters Gen Chem + labs, 2 semesters organic + labs, university physics (along with the required math prereq).....etc.

Yes, it is possible for a non science/non premed major to get all those classes in, it's just not the standard way to go about it.[/quote]

No, non-science majors cannot get around taking Chemistry through Org, bio, physics etc if they want to apply to medical school. At a minimum: https://students-residents.aamc.org/choosing-medical-career/article/admission-requirements-medical-school/[/quote]

I guess if you are cool with taking those courses, you can pretty much major in anything that you want to. Personally, I would be loading up on stuff like Anatomy/Physiology, genetics, etc.

If medicine is your passion, and if you're going to med school it needs to be your passion, I would think that you would want to know as much about the field as possible.....as opposed to majoring in something non-related, like Music Studies.  But that's just me.[/quote]

Did you go to medical school? Just curious, not a challenge.

The basic sciences are building blocks for medical school, but much of what you learn in medical school is context-specific. I am a practicing physician and have taught at medical school> Some things we have to undo and teach again, not to mention that much of what you learn in medical school is stored and forgotten.

However, I knew a music studies major who went on to become an otolaryngologist/ENT and does research on noise perception. I majored in one of the humanities subjects, and further work in that area is 25% of my appointment. When I was an undergraduate, I also took extra courses in topics like anatomy, but those were through the school of nursing. They helped a little, especially with terminology, but not as much as you might think.

I have never actually seen a "pre-med major" at a university. Most who identify as "pre-med" are majoring in Biology or Chemistry, or other science fields. Knowing more in detail about something like inorganic chemistry at upper levels doesn't necessarily tell you "as much about the field as possible" -- at least, not necessarily more than history or philosophy of science.

Medicine is, at its heart, a ringside seat on humanity, and one which comes with the director's bullhorn. You need to know about people and what it means to be human (frail, passionate, loving, afraid, broken, angry, all of it). That doesn't mean you need to know about these things instead of pharmacology, but in addition to it. SOme people have more on-the-job training in the "art" side of it than others, and academic exposure to the arts and humanities can lessen that part of the training needed, later.[/quote]

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