Biochemistry or Chemical Engieering

Pre-Med & Medical School Careers in Medicine
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I had a last post that helped me narrow my search and major down. Here is the site, http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/careers-medicine/1907721-what-major-should-i-consider-between-5-of-these-major-i-need-help-lowering-it-down-to-2-3.html#latest.

Before we move on I am a sophomore in college not high school. I finally know what I want to do. That is just to create medicine, now realizing it is impossible to create medicine and make artificial organs and limbs as well a medical technology.

I just want to create medicine to cure diseases and virus or possibly cancer. Who knows maybe cancer can be cured by a drug. Anyways, I want to make medicine because I want to save lives, all I want to do with my life was to somehow impact the world by making it better and saving everyone life so they can live longer and enjoy it while it lasts. By doing so I want to understand why people get sick and why people are dying from these types of illness, once we figure it out. We can start on creating the medicine. That is what I want to do, and Idk what that is called. I am assuming pharmaceutical virology or pharmaceutical epidemiology, or maybe a pharmacologist. I do not know since I am fairly new to this type of research in finding a career in the medical field.

Other then that I narrowed down my major to either biochemistry or chemical engineering or possibly microbiology.

Thanks again guys, we are getting close to finding my major! I’m so excited!

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Both can give you a solid background in the fundamentals that you would need for drug development, assuming that ChemE at your institution offers a biomedically geared track/classes. See if there are any particular professors in either department whom you might want to research with; at many colleges, it’s easier to get lab credit for research that counts towards your major requirements. Alternatively, see if one department offers more classes that you would want to take, or if the professors of one department are known to be good classroom instructors.

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I think chemical engineering can better to find a job upon graduation. Bioengineering normally requires an advanced degree.

You’d better off with Chem Eng if for any reason if the med school track does not work out.