<p>i recently got accepted to the university of central florida. i would like to study psychology, specifically neuroscience. does ucf have a good psych program? do you think med school would be necessary? does anyone know anythink about the ucf/usf med program? </p>
<p>please reply, i really need help with my decision.</p>
<p>No offense, but shouldn't you have looked into these aspects /before/ applying?</p>
<p>We have similar interests & I think and Emory's Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology major /really/ appeals to me.</p>
<p>psychology and neuroscience are two very different things.</p>
<p>there's some crossover (which would probably be best labeled biopsychology - though the behavioral biology also is accurate), but at most undergraduate schools majoring in one or the other is going to result in VERY different areas of knowledge. </p>
<p>The question about med school is much more related to your career goals within your interests - do the things doctors do (meeting with patients, diagnosing their conditions, giving treatments) appeal to you? Certainly Psychiatry and Neurology are the medical fields that fit with psychology and neuroscience respectively, but you need to want to do the things that doctors do on an every day basis. If your interests lay more in trying to elucidate how the brain works, how we put together thoughts and the stuff, you fit more of a research/PhD profile. There's no pure cutoff here, and there are a number of people who go on to earn dual MD/PhD degrees so that they can combine the clinical aspects of medicine with the research orientation of a PhD, but you need to look at what you're hoping to accomplish career wise to answer this question.</p>
<p>i also study psychology right now in hs but like question:</p>
<p>does majoring in psychology actually lead to med in college? don't no...</p>
<p>jchoi1216, I'm not sure if this answers your question, but medical school accepts any student from any major - I've read people that majored in history get into med schools. I <em>think</em> what determines your acceptance is your GPA, MCAT score, EC's that center around the medical field, and the interview. Hopefully someone else will clarify/confirm this!</p>