<p>I've noticed that the pre-med track requires physics and calculus...but are those fields and skills used in medical school?</p>
<p>calculus: no - although maybe it comes up in radiology?
physics: conceptually for sure, the movement of blood through the body is highly analogous to electrical circuits and the heart and brain actually generate and use electricity and defects in those systems cause disease</p>
<p>Apparently not considering this researcher’s obvious lack of calculus knowledge.
[A</a> Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves](<a href=“http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract]A”>http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract)</p>
<p>Heart and lungs are a lot of physics.</p>
<p>blood pressure is, by definition, mostly physics. Microcellular is physics. Microcellular chem is a lot physics – that’s what make the reactions go.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. </p>
<p>So physics YES, calculus NO. What would be the highest level of math needed, by the way?</p>
<p>I’m guessing no trig, right? Because trig is so specific and not very applicable in most subject areas. …But basic Alg I and II…Statistics…Pre-Calc??</p>
<p>Lots of stats. In fact, you’ll be taking basic thru advanced stats during your first year of med school. (Either as separate class or incorporated into other modules.)</p>
<p>Oh, yeah? Cool! I didn’t know that. </p>
<p>Stats are usually easy for me, since I’m doing Econ as one of my majors, so I csan help her with that…but she likes to learn on her own nowadays, lol. But very interesting.</p>