<p>Hi, I'm wondering which program (Medicine, Health, and Society from CAS or Human and Organizational Development from Peabody) is a better fit for a pre-med student. I know that you can be in either and still do a pre-med track but what would you recommend and why? What are the differences? What will look better for med school (if there's a big difference)?</p>
<p>I'm looking to be a doctor but also want to be involved in health management/administration.</p>
The question here is: are you doing this to solely get into med school? Cause med schools honestly can care less about your major, and they even state that. They don’t care if you major in bio, psychology, sociology, business etc. Heck you can even major in Woman’s Studies and get in. I have a friend whose brother went to one of the top undergrad business school (and did pre-med) and guess what, he ended up getting into one of the best med schools (which also happens to be in the same University). There are people who major in religious studies that get into top med schools. SO no it doesn’t matter. HOWEVER, (and not to be too pessimistic) but what happens if you don’t get into the med school you want/don’t get into OR you end up realizing that you don’t want to do med. These two majors don’t provide you with much wiggle room to help you find a job. Yes there are jobs that these two majors could fit in, but there are much better majors for those jobs (i.e. BS in Public Health-available at JHU, BS in business with a concentration in health management-available at Wharton). That’s something you also have to think about (I say this because from what I’m reading, I feel like you are choosing these majors to solely get into med school, I may be wrong). </p>
<p>BUT bottom line is, they don’t matter. Choose a major that appeals to you, but also one that allows you to wiggle a bit in case things don’t fall out for you. What happens if you realize that maybe a different profession, one that you have never thought you might do, becomes appealing? What happens if you loose interest in med?
Good luck.
<p>MHS is going to be much closer to a pre-med curriculum, and the classes in CAS are more demanding. HOD is a notoriously easy major. There’s a reason many athletes are in this program. That’s not to say there isn’t value there, just not nearly the rigor. Don’t know how hard it is to incorporate the sciences requirements you’d need within the HOD major.</p>
<p>My D is an MHS major, and she has taken some awesome courses in health care policy. She really enjoys MHS. There is a lot of flexibility within the major, as well. You do have to enjoy writing papers!!</p>
<p>She took a class that counted for MHS in Peabody, and she swore she would never do that again. It depends on how you like to learn … but she really did not like the way the class was structured. The group work in that class was painful for her. I suspect students who excel in the sciences may be a bit too left-brained for the HOD way of life.</p>
<p>You might want to check out the kind of classes required for MHS & for HOD, then pull up some of the course descriptions.</p>