Hi, I’ve had this conflict on whether I should continue the path of Biomed or go computer science. All my life I’ve been so focused on medicine because it was kinda the only thing I knew, but recently, I took a trip to the west coast and had the opportunity to tour the Nike HQ. The guy giving us the tour was my bf’s sisters long time friend and he is a software engineer. He programs the updates and stuff for the Nike Running app and I thought that was so interesting. I would like to note that I’ve had this far-fetched dream of working for Google. Anyways, I thought what he did was so cool and thought maybe I could do something like that? I’ve never thought outside of medicine so idk if computer science would be okay for me? I would love to learn it and start programming and stuff but I’m still unsure. By the way, I’m a upcoming freshman with a biomes major at the University of South Florida.
If you really like the CS, then maybe major in that and take all of the premed prerequisites. It’s a great skill to have even if you do go the medical route and a CS major won’t hold you back from med schools or science grad schools. There’s also the field of bioinformatics and a lot of modeling that combines CS and biological sciences.