<p>hello, i'm a rising junior w/ gpa around 94~95ish weighted. I've wanted to be a doctor after my 8th grade health class, in which my teacher showed me actual human organs etc. Now, my interest has worn off, because highschool bio wasn't really what I expected ( and it also bored me). Instead, I went in to math and now I'm a math nerd. I also started ESL tutoring in school, and found it very rewarding.</p>
<p>What can I do with math in the medical field involving interaction with people? (not some cubical job) Can math help me if I want to be a general surgeon?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>The math in medical school is very basic. Many medical schools only require one semester of calculus, but the MCAT doesn't require calc, nor does anything I've encountered as of yet in one year of medical school. I haven't officially gotten to dosing yet, but I'd be shocked if anything in the second year required anything beyond basic math. So, I guess my answer is no if you want to be a general surgeon.</p>
<p>However if you do like math, you are certainly welcome to major in it during college. It won't hurt you during the application process to medical school, as medical schools don't really care what your major was.</p>
<p>I really don't know of anything in that is really medical that requires extensive high level mathmatics. The most math intensive thing I can really think of right now would be something dealing with actuary tables, or various forms of research but those aren't likely to have tons of interaction with people (at least not on the same level as most types of physicians). Maybe some sort of bioinformatics, but I'm not really sure where that would fit in.</p>
<p>While general HS bio wasn't that interesting, realize that in college you can take a lot more specific bio courses (I wouldn't reccomend being a bio major) like anatomy or physiology that may again raise your interest.</p>
<p>I think pharmacists have to deal with math a lot with all the prescriptions they do like drug dosage levels, formulas, etc. Or maybe an anesthesiologist, since they're the dr that administers the anesthesia.</p>