<p>Program:</a> Clinical Laboratory Sciences - The University of Maine - acalog ACMS™</p>
<p>This is a major in clinical lab sciences, except in your 4th year, you apparently have to work off-campus at a hospital for a "twelve-month medical practicum". </p>
<p>You can either go to cytotechnology or medical technology (I would pick medical, of course).</p>
<p>My question is...does this sound good? I like the sound of the program, I think. Is this going to affect applying to med school at all? Do med schools not like to see this type of thing?</p>
<p>I'm not familiar with the program at all, but at first glance it would appear to fall under the vocational/health professions category of major that med schools really do not seem to like.</p>
<p>Yeah, this sounds like a great major for career as (surprise) a medical technologist. Pick a normal major.</p>
<p>Hmm. Alright. I thought when I checked it out at first that it seemed like a neat major, but I didn't know about the technical "internship" at the end of it. Jeez, were that not part of it, I'd like it a lot more.</p>
<p>I'm just not sure what to major in, I love the sciences, but I don't want to be a bio/chem major. Gah.</p>
<p>Thanks, guys.</p>
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<p>Why? If you explain, I think some of us would be able to make suggestions based on what you say.</p>
<p>The internship is not the cause of concern. (At least, not the sole cause.) If you want to major in a science, what's wrong with biology or chemistry?</p>
<p>Chem isn't my forte, even though I like it.
Also, I heard med schools get waaay too many bio majors.
I was looking for some kind of genetics or laboratory major, but there don't seem to be many options.</p>
<p>I believe the one you're searching for is called "biology".</p>
<p>Laboratory major is a bad idea. Biology is perfectly fine; there are a lot of them, but they get into medical school at the same rate as everybody else.</p>
<p>I agree biology is perfectly good. In my school at least, bio majors are given different choices of concentrations to pursue such as molecular biology . It is really fun, so far as I was picking my classes.
Or you could major in biochem perhaps.</p>