Lowest requirement on study Medication???

Question

i am a EMT and i have a base on first-aid and some medical knowledge.....I really want to be a doctor....but what is the lowest requirement for study med??? and is all my first -aid knowledge help me in my study........i heard from many people that medic is really difficult to study because have to memorize many thing.....
so my question are here,
1.What is the lowest requirement for study medic?
2.All my first-aid knowledge will help me in my study?
3.Is it true that study medic must memorize many things or i only have to understand then every thing will automatically in my brain ?

Answer 1

Sorry to disagree, but I do not think your EMT experience will be much use to you.

To become a physician you must attend Medical College. The process to be admitted to med school is very competitive. You must first get a BS or BA degree from a four year college. During that time you must take a series of pre-requisite courses that med schools require. Some of these courses such as organic chemistry and biochemistry require a lot of memorization. You cannot get a good mark in organic chemistry unless you are well prepared, smart and hardworking.

After you take these tough courses you must take a hard set of tests called the MCATs. There are like the SAT tests that high school kids take, but the MCATs are much harder.

Once you have taken all the prerequisite courses and scored well on the MCATs then you can apply to be admitted to med school. About half the people who are fully qualified are turned down.

Med school is difficult. There is a LOT of memorization. The doctors who are teaching the med students are very demanding and expect the students to be well prepared at all time. When you finish med school after four years, then you must apply to a residency in the special area of medicine that you want to practice. You spend several years in residency before you are allowed to practice medicine on your own.

This is a very tough and demanding series of challenges. Tough, not impossible, if you are dedicated and determined.

Answer 2

First you must figure out which Colleges of Medicine you'd be interested and look at their pre-requisite requirements. All schools are different and require different coursework. You'll have to take some very basic college classes before you can even apply to medical school. Your first aid knowledge will definitely help you, but it may not be much help until you actually get into medical school. There is a lot to understand and memorize in medical school. Luckily, there are many systems and many drugs that act the same way, so its not as overwhelming as it seems at first. You can learn the basics and then compare other things to it as a way to memorize. Its much easier to classify things than try to memorize every individual thing.