<p>I want to hopefully become a anesthesiologist do i have to take a lot of math in college. (im a junior in high school)</p>
<p>1.) You're thinking way too far ahead. Take as much math as you can in high school and focus on getting into a college you like first.</p>
<p>2.) No, premeds in general would never need to go beyond Stats and Calc III (Multivariable) for medical school purposes.</p>
<p>blue devil are u a prem ed student or are u already in med school? You attend duke right?</p>
<p>I graduated from Duke about a month ago.</p>
<p>Even Calc III is, IMHO, too much unless you need it for your major. As far as I know, WashU is the only med school that requires a second semester of Calc, though I assume there are a handful of others that do so as well.</p>
<p>Considering you don't need calc for the MCAT, and pharmacy schools don't use it for dosing (and anesthesiologists are really doing the same calculations as a pharmD would), calc isn't really useful in medicine to make it worth taking upper levels. Again, if you are a chem major, or an engineering major, or some other major requiring a lot of math, it's different.</p>
<p>Then again do anesthesiologists really do too many calculations, or do PDA's and computer do it for em? With technology I would think its not worth the risk to do complex calculations by hand, PDA's and computers are more reliable.</p>
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<p>Anesthesiologists routinely do calculations in their heads or by hand, although most calculations are of an algebraic nature due to the mainly linear relationship of dosing to body mass. While PDA's and computers serve as useful reference tools, anesthesiologists rarely use them for calculation because of the GIGO phenomenon.</p>
<p>Formal application of calculus and statistics in the day to day practice of anesthesiology is rare, but every anesthesiologist assesses rate of change and accelerating or decelerating vital signs trends on a minute to minute basis.</p>
<p>While not much math is required for the MCAT, math majors outscore biological science majors on all subsections of the MCAT.
<a href="http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/examineedata/sum2005.pdf%5B/url%5D">www.aamc.org/students/mcat/examineedata/sum2005.pdf</a></p>
<p>What kind of doctors requires the least amount of math knowledge?
(including suregons)</p>
<p>You have to understand that what $0.02 has just described is not "formal" math in any sense, it's just quantitative thinking. That's something that everybody - doctors, everybody - needs lots of.</p>
<p>How fast is something changing? Do I need to slow it down or speed it up? Is it getting faster or slowing down?</p>
<p>Infections. Cardiac function. Breath rate. Pulse. Tumor size. Number of stitches. Angle of impact.</p>
<p>This is all very simple "math", things you'd learn implicitly in ninth grade science.</p>
<p>Worry less about what kind of doctor you want to be now and more about getting into med school. It wont do you much good to know you want to be X doctor if you haven't gotten in any school.</p>
<p>I mean, at this point he should focus his energy on getting into college.</p>
<p>ok thanks for the advice. Im going to start to focus on getting into college first</p>