<p>On the BS/MD combined medical program track, which are the colleges providing biomedical Engineering as a major in BS?</p>
<p>I don’t know, but I don’t see the point in participating in such a program. There’s no reason to collect an engineering degree if you want to practice medicine and are already in a medical school program.</p>
<p>Then why are so many students doing Biomed as their pre-med major. Is it just to keep their options open if they don’t get to medical school? To my understanding they would be a good fit for robotic surgeries, endoscopy, orthopedic implants etc…
Could someone please tell me how does BME background help doctors?</p>
<p>I don’t really understand why a lot of pre-medical students study biomedical engineering before medical school. My personal opinion is that some pre-med students have this weird compulsion to always be studying in ‘one of the hardest programs’ in order to satisfy their academic egos. It really doesn’t make any sense to me. Why collect a degree which trains you in a profession that you never intend to enter?</p>
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<p>But studying engineering makes it more difficult to get into medical school. Engineering school is a lot of work and maintaining good grades in engineering is more difficult than in other subjects. If you worry about being on the edge grades-wise in order to get into medical school, choosing engineering as a back up plan becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.</p>
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I am not a doctor or an engineer who designs these things, so my advice may be bad, but . . .</p>
<p>I suspect that there is a division of labor regarding the design and use of these things. Engineers design medical tools and doctors use them. Doctors don’t really have to know how the tools are designed and actually in a lot of cases, they don’t have to know how they work (my old optics professor has confirmed this with regards to doctors who use ultra-violet lasers to do eye surgeries).</p>
<p>If the job prospect right after college is the most important concern, BME is not the most promising engineering degree among all engineering degrees either. In a sense, BME is kind of inter-discipline area where you are not as specialized as in other more traditional engineering field. With a BS degree only, the employer usually prefers somebody who has a more specialized skill set.</p>
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Many ambitous youngsters may want to take the hardest class who may be taught by a Nobel Prize winner in a hardest department of a hardest school. They may soon find out those high profile professors are there to groom future academic stars who will likely follow their steps in nthe PhD program (or maybe MD/PhD). As long as they know you are on a professonal career path, many of them may lose interests in you. It is arguably a mismatch if your career goal is not to enter the academic/PhD field.</p>
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<p>Or those high profile professors are too involved in their research to give a crap about undergrads.</p>
<p>*Then why are so many students doing Biomed as their pre-med major. Is it just to keep their options open if they don’t get to medical school? *</p>
<p>I think it’s because of “wrong-headed” thinking. I think they think that biomed sounds so sexy and hard, that med schools will roll out the red carpet for them.</p>
<p>In reality, a BS in biomedE means NOTHING. Even if you decide not to go to med school, a person can major in nearly any engineering (EE, ChemE, MechE), and then do biomedE for grad school. </p>
<p>I think biomed E is a very limiting major.</p>
<p>Belkin,
'On the BS/MD combined medical program track, which are the colleges providing biomedical Engineering as a major in BS? "</p>
<p>-U of Toledo. They have 2 programs, one is with Engineering department, another with Bio major.</p>
<p>Wash U.</p>
<p>Northwestern has the program but anyone wanting to complete in 3 years may not want to.</p>
<p>Caltech/UCSD</p>
<p>USC had it but they dropped the combined starting 2012.</p>
<p>Brown PLME</p>
<p>Schools to Consider for BME</p>
<ul>
<li>University of Washington</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
<li>University of Michigan</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>University of California San Diego</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
<li>Rice University</li>
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<p>These colleges dont have a combined BS/MD track, but they have WONDERFUL pre-med programs.</p>
<p>OP was asking about 'On the BS/MD combined medical program track, which are the colleges providing biomedical Engineering as a major in BS?" Many of the above either do not have combined bs/md or do not have BME in combined bs/md.</p>