<p>Would it be feasible to be an architect major and go on to medical school? i love science and want to become a neurologist... but i also have an artistic side that i do not want to let go to waste. just recently, i visited a hospital for a medical mentorship program and i was really impressed by the design and architecture of the place... so would architecture and medicine afterwards work out? (im planning on just getting the 4-year BA for architecture and then go on to med school)</p>
<p>I recently was in a pretty bad car accident and i had to have some plastic surgery done, and interestingly enough my plastic surgeon had done an architecture degree from UF. He didnt get into a med school in the US, in stead he went to Mexico but in the end he was able to do plastic surgery and he did his fellowship at Johns Hopkins so i guess in the end major doesn't matter much.</p>
<p>It's amazing how thirdworldman13 happened to have plastic surgery with a man who went through the situation that zip<em>zap</em>zop is looking into, and your both on the same forum.</p>
<p>Scary...</p>
<p>In my experience with friends who were architecture majors (both just graduated with their masters) I think it would be incredibly difficult to pull off. </p>
<p>It's not a question of "afterwards" working out.</p>
<p>The curriculum my friends had was very, very structured and left little room for electives. As far as I could tell, and from talking to them about it, majoring in architecture is like any other professional schooling - maybe not as taxing as medical or law - but they are being taught HOW to be architects and nothing else. That's a very different aim than most other undergraduate programs...</p>
<p>Now your artistic side does not have to go waste, you can always be an art major and be pre-med. And thirdworld's experience raises a unique point about plastics in that the best plastic surgeons have an eye for art and the talent/skill to make that happen. Same thing with medical illustrators. Compare that to someone like me who can visualize and appreciate art, but am stuck making stick figures...I don't have the physical skill to make great art (but I'm good at photography).</p>
<p>To reemphasize, going to a foreign medical school is much less of a problem if you are actually FROM the country in question. US programs are tough to get into, but at least they are not openly hostile towards Mexican graduates of Mexican medical schools.</p>
<p>I find myself wondering if that's the situation discussed above.</p>
<p>In any case, plastics now seems to be usually a residency rather than a fellowship, where medical school -- US vs. not-US -- would matter more, for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>Majoring in architecture and going to med school is feasible.</p>
<p>Four year BA programs in Architecture provide much more freedom than B.Arch programs. A BA with a major in Architecture puts you in the same boat as other liberal arts majors. The list of actual courses required for medical school is quite short: if you take math, physics and English as part of your architecture curriculum, only bio, chem and organic remain. (Traditional premeds typically take more science courses, but your proposed path sounds non-traditional).</p>
<p>I also forgot to add, he didnt get into a plastic surgery right away. He was doing something like OBYN and then after one year was able to switch. I dont know whether he did his fellowship or residency at JHU but he did mention about doing some type of training there. He's american born and not mexican he decided to medicine after he finished his architecture degree so he came back and spent a year taking all the pre-reqs. He told me that if you happen to be a foreign grad. you can still land tough residencies in surgery but it might take a little more time, as he had to do 1 year Obgyn before switching. But he also did goto med school probably 10 years ago so it might be different now.</p>