Diagnostic Medical Sonography-Medical

Pre-Med & Medical School Careers in Medicine
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<p>I am currently a high school senior. I plan on applying to medical school after my bachelor. I have been reading these and seen that you can do anything but I've also read that it does matter. So my main question is if i were to get a bachelor in Diagnostic Medical Sonography-Medical with is an ultrasound technician, would this pre med choice be alright with completing the pre reqs or would you recommend A more traditional pre med</p>

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<p>Generally speaking medical school adcomms prefer more traditional academic majors over vocation majors.</p>

<p>Majoring in medical sonography could potentially raise questions about where your career interests lie–in sonography or in medicine. Additionally, adcomms are often reluctant to “poach” students from other healthcare professions, esp if the student has never actually worked in the profession s/he was trained for.</p>

<p>There are two additional issues you need to consider/research.</p>

<p>1) At many colleges there are two or three different science tracks: one for science majors; one for allied health professions majors; and one for everyone else. Only science courses that are the ones taken by science majors are acceptable for medical school. If sonography requires a bio or chem that is different from what bio or chem majors take then your coursework won’t fulfill med school admission requirements.</p>

<p>2) Statistically speaking vocational health sciences majors have the lowest average MCAT scores of all applicants majors and have a lower rate of acceptance into med school than all other majors–including humanities and social sciences.</p>

<p>See AMCAS data here:</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/2013factstable18.pdf”>https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/2013factstable18.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Does this mean it’s impossible to apply to med school as a medical sonography major?</p>

<p>No, but it may make your path more difficult. </p>

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<p>thank you so much for your response. I am going to focus on something more traditional like biological sciences or physical sciences. maybe humanities or physcology </p>