Should I go pre-med if I want to be a cardiologist? Should I also be a major in biology to become pre-med?

Answer 1

To be accepted at a medical school, you must, of course, take pre-med.
These courses include biology, chemistry and physics; but should also include things like psych, sociology, math and english. Squeeze in a course on nutrition - most doctors are
still under educated in that area.
The nurses will appreciate it if you learn to write legibly!
When you get into the hospital training - listen to the nurses when the residents aren't around: they will save your butt more than once!

Answer 2

It is not true that you have to do 'pre-med' to get into medical school. There's really no such thing as 'pre-med' anyway. That's a generic term that many universities use to describe the type of courses that you need to complete in order to compete for a spot in medical school. In almost every case, you will find that these undergraduate degree programs focus on some type of combination of advanced-level biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics courses. My old university never had a "pre-med" program. They had a bunch of different programs paths that you could follow, and all of them contained pretty much the same core classes with a few additional courses in a particular area (neurobiology, psychobiology, biochemistry, biology, and so on.) You could apply to any medical school with any of these degrees because they all contained the pre-requisite classes that medical schools look for. So, the answer to your question is 'yes', an undergraduate degree in biology can get you into medical school. You just have to make sure that your biology program includes the upper-level core courses in math, chemistry, and physics---and most biology programs in US universities do.

Becoming a cardiologist is a step further. You first have to complete medical school and then go into a residency program where you can receive specialty training. The whole process takes many years, but it is a great career and well worth the time and investment.

Answer 3

You cannot get into medical school without taking the prerequisite classes for it, and the MCAT. Cardiology is a specialty of medicine, so you have to be either an M.D. or a D.O. to do it. You can start off working on a bio degree, but that is just going to keep you in undergraduate school longer. You can use your 8 hours of bio and 8 hours of general chem (maybe even 8 hours of organic chem) towards your bio degree. For med school, you will also need 8 hours of physics. Most also want you to have calculus, so most med school hopefuls take 8 hours of calculus so they can take 8 hours of physics with calculus because it is harder (and helps you prepare for the MCAT). Going to medical school is hard. You will have to give it 100% or you won't get in. You will also need to keep a high GPA, do volunteer work, and shadow a doctor. Talk to your premed adviser at your school.

Answer 4

Yes & Yes.