Med School Info?

Question

alirght, so you've done your pre-med? now what?

what kinda scores do you need on the MCATS?

What kinda classes do you take as a first year
what kinda classes are you taking the second year?

class sizes?

when do you start rotations?

ect. ect...

any information would help! thanks

Answer 1

Are you done with all your pre-med classes? Calculus, chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, physics. If so, you still need to get a degree in something! You need to choose a major, just having pre-med classes is not enough. Biology and chemistry are the most popular because the pre-reqs for these majors are pretty much the same as the pre-med classes. Most people admitted into medical schools are either bio or chem majors, but it doesn't really matter what you major in as long as you do well (3.5 GPA is considered competitive). And you need to start preparing for the MCATs if you have finished taking all your pre-med classes. You need to get a score in the 30s to be considered competitive.

Traditionally college students take MCAT during their junior year and start applying for medical schools summer before and fall of senior year. They find out what medical schools they get into towards the end of their senior year. So first think about getting through the MCAT and your major and whatnot, you're already thinking about the specifics of medical school like class size and rotations.

But if you really want answers to those questions, the first two years you just take classes in a classroom setting. Some of the usual courses are pathology, pharmacology, neuroanatomy, biochemistry, physiology, histology (the anatomy of tissues), and gross anatomy (cadaver class). You do clinical rotations third and fourth years. Class sizes at any graduate level program are much smaller than at the undergrad level, since the schools are MUCH more competitive and MUCH harder to get into.

First think about getting through the MCAT and graduating.

Answer 2

1 - MCAT scores, depends on your college choices; the better you do, the better med school you get into

2 - First year depends on the program; most schools do academics (clinical applications of your science UG). Many are starting to do clinical hours as well. Problem-based learning students start with cases (not academics) and you basically teach each other, have clinical hours and start watching operations, etc.

3 - some classes are hundreds, some are 4-6.

4 - Rotations depend on the school, but mostly in third year, some start only in 4th. That is changing.

5 - It's 11 months a year of solid work...be prepared! Take vitamins, get very organized, find study partners early, and take time off to have some fun.

Answer 3

i think of of you would be able to assume an instantaneous value as an O-3. and no person turns top right into a protection stress scientific professional to alter into wealthy. you have gotten a a innovations, a innovations greater appropriate incomes capacity contained in the civilian international. besides the easy fact that, protection stress docs do no longer stay with the consistent threat of malpractice court docket circumstances excessive contained in the comparable way that civilan docs do.