Colleges for a wannabe orthopedic surgeon?

Question

what is a good college to attend for a person who wants to study orthopedic surgery?

any tips as well?

Answer 1

You do not study surgery until after you get out of med school. The sequence works like this: 1) get out of high school with great marks, especially in science; 2) go through a great college, preferably one of the top 10 or 20 in the USA. Get a very high GPA, and near perfect grades in the prerequisite courses that are needed to apply to med school. Pay careful attention from day one to all the suggestions from the premed faculty advisor. When you are a Jr in college take the MCAT test and score very high. 3) apply to many different med schools and pray that you get in; 4) in med school do a good job and graduate high in your class; 5) apply for residencies in surgery. If you are lucky you can get a residency and spend the next 7 years or more studying under the personal attention of senior surgeons. 6) at about age 32 joina practice with senior surgeons and work your butt off. Don't make a mistake or your patient will be crippled or dead. But if you do a good job have the satisfaction of knowing that you have really helped someone who was in pain or incapacitated. Collect a huge paycheck, but you might not have time to spend it.

Good luck!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Colleges for a wannabe orthopedic surgeon?
what is a good college to attend for a person who wants to study orthopedic surgery?

any tips as well?

Answer 4

"I got a 1400 on my SAT out of 2400, which i don't think will be an issue for college given my gpa." A 1400 SAT score suggests your GPA is inflated. Colleges will notice. That low an SAT score also suggest you will have difficulty in college. Sorry, Medicine does not look likely. Make sure you choose a Major with good fallback career prospects. Starting in Community College is also not a good idea for "pre-med" wannabes, for several reasons. Medical Schools usually discourage or do not recognize pre-med courses taken in Community College. You also don't want to be in a situation where you are taking your Major courses and science pre-med courses all in the last two years of college.

Answer 5

If you want to be a surgeon and you havent thought about where you want to go to med school, you might want to consider a change in profession, if you are past your sophomore year in college.

Med school is extremely competitive to get in and not all have the same entrance requirments. Most people apply to 15 med schools and it takes a few semesters to rack up all the special classes for them.

Also many times the prospective med students will start forming a repor with the admissions and interview people up to a year in advance. Its something you should get on quick.

As far as med schools go: John's Hopkins, Northwestern, UCLA, Duke....

Answer 6

the university of san francisco is excellent for wannabe- doctors. its also located in a lovely place as well!