<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am interested in applying to John Hopkins to become a Neurologist. How many years can i expect it to take if my chosen undergrad degree is 4 years long? </p>
<p>Also, what is the acceptency rate?</p>
<p>It’s JohnS Hopkins. The acceptance rate to what? The university as an undergraduate? Last year, it was 20% and it’s almost guaranteed to drop this year, probably near 17-18%.</p>
<p>Sorry, I was not very specific. What is the acceptency rate to the Neuroscience Undergrad program at JohnS Hopkins? </p>
<p>Also, I am planning to become a Neurologist at Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>How many years will that take? Please be specific.</p>
<p>Undergrad = 4 years
medschool = ?
residency=?</p>
<p>Also is there an internship?</p>
<p>You may already know this, but to become a neurologist, you must complete a residency training program in neurology after you graduate from medical school. You wouldn’t be applying to Hopkins for neurology training until your fourth year of medical school.</p>
<p>Undergrad = 4 years
Med school = 4 years
Residency = 4 years (either 1 year transitional/medicine plus 3 years neurology, or a 4-year integrated program).</p>
<p>So that’s 12.</p>
<p>You could get your undergraduate or medical degree at Hopkins, too. But the “becoming a neurologist” part is down the road. You will have to reapply to Hopkins at every step.</p>
<p>Is there an internship needed as well to become neurologist?
Also, is it hard to get into Medical school at Hopkins? Like how many people apply and what are my chances?</p>
<p>One applies for admission to a university, not usually for admission to a specific major.</p>
<p>For med school admission, you can major in almost any field as long as you complete the pre-requisite courses for med school admission. Neurology is a medical specialty completed during a residency after medical school. A student generally wouldn’t be able to make the informed choice of specialty until s/he has been exposed to several of them during clinical rotations in med school.</p>
<p>I’ve come across a number of posts on this forum in which the poster has the erroneous impression that a neuroscience major is some sort of a pre-neurology major. That is not the case, though many pre-med students might choose to major in it.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate for Hopkins Med and other top medical schools is well under 10%. While it’s great that you have an idea of what you’re interested in now, I would strongly advise you to keep your options open and explore other areas as well. Very few people come into medical school knowing what specialty they want to go into, and of those that do, a good number end up changing their mind before the four years are up. </p>
<p>As for what it takes to become a neurologist, after med school, like DeskPotato mentioned, you’ll do an intern year in internal medicine before going into a 3-year neurology residency program. DeskPotato also mentioned 4-year integrated neurology residency programs, which I haven’t heard much about before, but I’m sure exist - in that case, the program essentially includes the intern year as part of the 4-year residency program and you go straight into the 4-year program after med school</p>
<p>Thanx DeskPotato. :)</p>
<p>Thank You very much TanMan and Zap! :)</p>
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<p>When you to apply to Johns Hopkins you apply to the entire university. You could apply as Mechanical Engineering and then come in a history major or vice versa. The only exception is Biomedical Engineering which requires an extra admissions review stage. You can get accepted to the university but rejected from Biomedical Engineering. This is because Johns Hopkins BME is by far the best BME program in the country and probably the world. </p>
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<p>It’s hard and your chances are low. JHU undergraduates are well represented at the medical school, but there is no explicit discrimination in their favor. JHU undergraduates tend to do well with medical school admissions on the whole because of the quality of the medical research opportunities available to them as undergraduates. </p>
<p>Also you can apply to medical school from any undergraduate major as long as you have taken a handful of required courses.</p>
<p>Is biomedical engineering “good”?
Like as a job…</p>
<p>How good is the job oppurtunties for a neurologist? Also, what are the typical working hours if u are employed in a hospital?</p>
<p>look on bls.gov and search for physicians or neurologist and you’ll get a ton of information</p>
What are the best colleges to go to for Neurology?
You resurrected a 5 year old thread. Neurology is a medical subspecialty. You need to be an MD first.
Since this thread has been exhumed I might as well update a few facts: Hopkins undergrad acceptance rate last cycle was 12.4%, and 15% the year before that. I wouldn’t be surprised if it falls below 10% this cycle.
As for medical school acceptance rates, there is a growing trend to apply to more and more medical schools, which has significantly lowered medical school acceptance rates. As a result, the average 2014 medical school acceptance rate is 7.1%, but this can be misleading since there are significantly higher acceptance rates at public medical schools for in-state students, and these programs often have very limited seats or outright bar out-of-state students. Therefore most private medical schools that accept reasonable amounts of out-of-state students that I have seen have acceptance rates below 5%. For students applying from populated states (CA, TX, NJ and NY) it is very competitive for in-state MD programs and so out-of-state programs are often the only viable option.
Shocking how quickly rates have dropped since 2010 based on the previous posts in this thread.