<p>I'm very interested in going to McGill, but I'm a little confused about their program(s) for students who want to pursue a career in medicine... Do I have to apply to a pre-med program? Or do I just choose a science major and later apply to the medical school? Someone please explain. Thanks!</p>
<p>As I replied to your post on another thread:
McGill, like many if not most schools, does not have a “Pre-med” major. Most students who are premed apply to the life sciences profile in the Faculty of Science. Life Sciences has the highest admission standards of all programs at McGill.</p>
<p>However, it is possible to major in most anything as long as you take the required premed courses as electives. </p>
<p>Unless you are coming out of a Qu</p>
<p>however, you can do a bachelor’s in any program provided you have met the pre-requisites for med. they can be found here:</p>
<p>[Admission</a> requirements for the MDCM, MD-PhD and MD-MBA programs](<a href=“http://www.mcgill.ca/medicine/admissions/criteria/med-r-reqs/]Admission”>http://www.mcgill.ca/medicine/admissions/criteria/med-r-reqs/)</p>
<p>but as the above poster pointed out, often people who wish to do med school will go into the life sciences because the pre-reqs are part of the bachelor’s curriculum.</p>
<p>ok will anyone taking these “supposed” prereqs for med school from mcgill actually get into top U.S. med schools like JHU? i know mcgill is world wide recognized…but will a med degree from mcgill be legitimate for a u.s. hospital? and what is that degree’s caliber. I’m just asking because I would like to know my options since the system in canada is so different from U.S. Thanks :D</p>
<p>McGill, and all medical schools in Canada including the francophone schools, are fully accredited by the AAMC/AMA. Canadian medical school grads are not considered to be foreign medical school grads in the US. </p>
<p>As a publicly funded school however, there are only a small number of spaces open for American medical students at McGill. The Faculty of Medicine is the only program that limits non-Canadian applicants. </p>
<p>Many McGill grads, both American and Canadian, go on to medical schools in the US.</p>
<p>awesome! Thanks</p>
<p>mcgill’s faculty of medicine is actually one of the best in the world. A MD from mcgill will be very reputable in US. In fact, I believe one of JHU’s founders was a mcgill alum, Dr Osler. There is a library and a whole lot more named after him at mcgill.</p>
<p>Undergraduate studies is a different story. Only a small handful of students will go to JHU for medical school. If you work really hard, score really well on mcat, and have some interesting extracurricular then you definitely have a chance, just like students from good state schools. But you are not going to have any advantage by virtue of going to mcgill.</p>
<p>oh wow, I never considered that. But I guess anywhere if you do badly during undergrad, it would be hard to get an admission to a top med school.</p>