What post-secondary math courses do i need to be a pediatrician?

Question

well which one's do i need?

Answer 1

Check the medical school requirements for the specifics. Each school may have different requirements for both math and science. In addition, some science courses have a math pre-requisite (Ex. physics) so you want to meet those requirements so you can enroll in the right course.

Plus, since it is so competitive to go to medical school an applicant needs to distinguish their academic record from everyone else. So most students take additional and more advance math and science courses. Make sure you strive for "A"s.

So a good place to start would be the calculus series for science majors. Most likely you will also need to take a statistics course because you will be reading research papers and you will need to be able to analyze the data.

I hope that helps.

Answer 2

Most top-tier medical schools require some Calculus. (Harvard, Duke = one year, Brown, Yale = one semester, Dartmouth = one semester required, one year recommended)

However, there are some schools that allow Calculus or Statistics (Johns Hopkins = 1 year of either), and there are some schools that do not have any math requirements at all. Stanford, for example, does not require calculus, although it recommends it. And The University of Chicago (Pritzker) and the University of Virginia do not require calculus.

In addition, many medical schools will accept AP credit (earned while in high school) for the calculus requirement.

Bottom line? It varies.