<p>At James Madison University it is possible to pursue Musical Theatre through the School of Theatre & Dance, or with an emphasis in Vocal Performance or Music Theatre through the School of Music, and complete the pre-med coursework. </p>
<p>KaMaMom, that food for thought is a bit misleading. According to the Association of American Medical Schools 51% of the class of 2012 was Biological Science majors. Music has a high acceptance rate because not very many music majors apply to medical school. So in any given year, if 30 apply and 15 get accepted that would give music majors an acceptance percentage of 50%. That is probably much, much higher than the acceptance percentage for biology majors because there are probably thousands of those applying, many of which don’t really stand a chance of getting accepted. Fyi, a very close relative had a med school class of 120 and only 1 was a music major.</p>
<p>To answer the original question, I suggest you look at what is required by most medical schools and see if you think that would be doable along with a MT program. Most all of the required pre-med courses are offered at any major university (and even at many community colleges in the summers). Your biggest difficulty will be finding time to do it all, not finding a school that offers it. Also, be careful with AP courses as many medical schools will not accept AP credit, particularly in science courses.</p>
<p>Ball State has both curricula. But I know my D only has room for about 1-2 classes outside the Theater and Dance Department a semester and some of these have to be Liberal Arts as part of the BFA curriculum. So you could do it but I would think it would be very hard and may take longer than 4 years. But it’s a great BFA MT program, they also have a great BA Theater Studies program, and I guest lecture on occasion in their biology department and their biology/pre-med classes are top nothh and get many accepted to med school.</p>
<p>I’ve had quite a few former students who chose to major in something non-premed (art history, classics, and yes, music) as undergrads and then did a post-bac program to get their science requirements done. Another possibility is to apply for the Icahn School of Medicine’s “FlexMed” program, which you can look up online; it’s very competitive but could be the perfect solution for the OP. You don’t have to follow the typical premed path in college to go to med school!</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see how Icahn grads fare on shelf exams once they are in med school. It’s a great idea. There may be some deficits in scientific foundation that are problematic. But the very existence of this program is evidence of the changing face of medical education.</p>
<p>Vocal1046, Icahn IS med school, just for the record. It’s the med school at Mt. Sinai, in NYC. :)</p>
<p>Yes, of course, FlexMed is one of the programs at the med school affiliated with Sinai, but these students come in without some of the basic sciences usually required and also skip the MCAT. The question is how those students ultimately fare in comparison to students on the traditional MD pathway. One measure is the shelf exams; Step 1 at the end of the second year and Step 2 taken during the third year (the clerkship year) which might be more challenging for the “Humanities and Medicine” students. If non-standard pathway students perform overall just as well as those with more science training, that will be good news! Humanism in medicine is a laudable goal and this may be one way to encourage that trend.</p>
<p>I don’t think the Flexmed program would be a very good solution for the OP. it requires a MINIMUM of a year of biology, a year of chemistry, a semester of physics, two semesters of science labs, an ethics course, a statistics course, a senior thesis, and basic competency in cellular biology, biochemistry, and genetics, along with a few other things. I really don’t see an MT having time to squeeze all of that in. At least not in 4 or 5 years.</p>
<p>Post-bacc is more designed for someone like the OP but that is tagged on to however many years it takes to get the BA/BFA. Ambitious but this has been done by many driven, focused med school applicants.</p>
<p>IU MT BFA is a full liberal arts program. They strongly encourage students to pursue interests outside of MT. IU also has theatre BA and ALL stage productions are open to ALL students on campus, regardless of major.</p>