I want to study medicine and become either a neurosurgeon or a neurologist. Which major(s) would be good for me: Chemistry, Biology, Neuroscience, or Psychology? I enjoy the sciences and I’m quite not sure.
Major in something you like…and do well. Just make sure you take all the courses required for medical school applicants.
Any of the majors you listed are fine. So is art, or music…or really anything as long as you ask have those required courses.
Medical students don’t choose a specialty until sometime late in their 3rd year of med school or early 4 th year and med students typically change their mind about a specialty an average of 3-4 times during med school. So don’t choose a major based on your current hopeful specialty.
I second the advice above. Pick a major that interests you and one in which you will be able to earn the high GPA needed to get admitted to medical school. Just be sure to complete the necessary pre-req classes.
Biology and neuroscience have the largest overlap with pre-med requirements, but neither offer good post-graduation job prospects.
I met someone about a month ago at a wedding reception who attended a top 5 medical school and continuing there in residency. This person spent an extra two years doing additional things to get a better resume for neurosurgery, only to go into psychiatry.
D spent almost 18 months bouncing around preferences (medicine to radiology to surgery to dermatology and so on) and at one time convincing us that she needs a research year to get into a super hard residency. IIn the end she chose one without a gap year…
What we are all trying to say - don’t pick a major based on what you think you will be as a doctor. Getting into medicine is hard enough and your undergrad major will have zilch to do with what you might practice in the end, if you can make it into medical school. You need to worry about what you will be able to work on in undergrad, have a fallback plan for a career and work hard enough to make it into medical school.