<p>HEY EVERYONE!!! So. I am thinking of applying to the University of Edinburgh of Scotland. Yes, Scotland, for Economics. But I was concerned whether I could acquire all my prerequisites for medical school applications as well as do my degree in the Scottish education system. Thanks everyone!!!</p>
<p>Where are you applying from and where are you planning to study medicine?</p>
<p>You need to speak to some US medical schools and ask their advice on admissions requirements.</p>
<p>In the UK medicine is an undergraduate degree. They are unlikely to have much understanding on US prerequisites. Also, if you choose to study Economics, that is very likely all you will study. In Scotland there is more flexible than England, but this basically means you can take some extra classes (outside of your effective “major”) in your first year. My gut feeling is this wouldn’t be enough for US medical school. You would have to study Biology or Chemistry as your subject, rather than Economics, to acquire all prerequisites.</p>
<p>The UK pretty much expects students to start specializing long before they do in the United States. So saying, “I want to study Economics as an undergraduate, and then go on to become a Medical Doctor” is just going to be baffling to folks in the UK.</p>
<p>It’s a bit baffling to me, too.</p>
<p>No UK university is going to have a program where you major in Economics as a preparation for becoming a Medical Doctor, and they aren’t going to create such a program just for you.</p>
<p>If your long term goal is to become a doctor, maybe you should focus on that. Contact the University of Edinburgh and find out what the students who are planning to become doctors do (they don’t major in economics!). The University of Edinburgh is famous for its medical school.</p>
<p>KEVP</p>
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They do a 5-6 year undergraduate course in medicine, as I said above.</p>
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<p>Thanks everyone. The point being I would like to keep my options open and see whether I can apply to Medical School in the US. Keep in my mind I am applying from the US also. The prerequisites for Medical School are not that stringent here in the US. Since I am looking at the Scotland Universities, I know that they have more freedom of choice for the courses you can take during the first two years, but I am not sure the extent to which I can take the prerequisites. Thanks everyone and more help would be welcome!</p>
<p>As cupcake said, you need to contact US medical schools and ask them about their admission requirements. </p>
<p>Although you can study courses outside economics as part of the economics degree at Edinburgh, for example, there’s no guarantee that those courses will fit American admissions criteria. You need to check. </p>
<p>I agree with cupcake also that I doubt you would be able to fit in all the prerequisities for medical school doing an economics degree, even if the courses were suitable. I doubt there would be time. It looks to me like you can only study a total of four non-economics courses during the econ degree at Edinburgh. [Degree</a> finder | Undergraduate study](<a href=“http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergraduate/degrees?id=0,17&cw_xml=subject.php]Degree”>http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergraduate/degrees?id=0,17&cw_xml=subject.php)</p>
<p>You could do a joint honours degree in economics and medical science or biomedical sciences, that would I’m sure be acceptable to US med schools. Whilst that degree programme isn’t officially available on their website, it is still a possibility. As long as you take the required science courses as your outside subjects in years one and two, there’s no reason why Edinburgh wouldn’t allow you to continue both subjects into honours years.</p>