I’m applying to several colleges for the class of 2022…but I’m not sure about the course to choose.
My Goal is to become a neurosurgeon. I know it’s a long process but I’m prepared to go the distance. My question is, between BS in Neuroscience and BS Medicine&Surgery which one do i need to study in order to set me on the path to becoming a neurosurgeon?
Please help
sounds like you are an international student. The majors available in your country that you mentioned are not undergrad courses of study in the US
What North American school offers a “BS Medicine&Surgery”??
Which country are you talking about?
Major in what interests you and that you can do well in GPAwise. If that’s neuroscience or art history or whatever, so be it. As to becoming a neurosurgeon you’re looking at 15 years after hs (say bye bye to your 20s and a chunk of your 30s). Nothing you take in college will help you prepare for this pathway as you will probably have long forgotten anything you learned while in college. Actually little of what you learn in a US med school will be devoted to preparing you for a career as a neurosurgeon. When time comes (ie you start actually residency), you will eat/breathe neurosurgery 24/7 and actually learn what you need to know. Assuming you actually get into a med school, people often change their minds during med school about their post med school plans. It’s too early to focus on one post med school career pathway.
Like others above, which US college offers a BS in medicine & surgery?
Oh my bad guys hehe. I meant a bachelor in medicine and surgery. I study in south Africa and the universities here offer a 6 year bachelor’s degree for MBChB (aka Medicine and surgery) I wasn’t aware that they don’t offer that abroad (but i am now thanks!).
So you’re saying I can still become a neurosurgeon if I do neuroscience?
Or do I rather just do the medicine course offered in the US?
Which do you think best suits my current situation?.
Thanks guys i appreciate your feedback.
OP is an international student applying to US colleges.
In the US medicine is a post graduate degree. You first need to complete an undergraduate (baccalaureate) degree first. That can be in any field as @Jugulator20 stated above. There are no BS medicine & surgery or MBChB or MBBS degrees offered in the US.
David Kwentua–you should know that your chances of getting accepted into a US medical school are vanishingly small. Only about 40 US medical schools will even consider international students for admission and fewer than 50 non-Canadian internationals are accepted each year.
In addition to the difficulty of gaining an acceptance to a US medical school, international citizen graduates of US medical schools have difficulty finding residency training programs that will accept them due to visa & funding issues. Most international med grads end up training in less competitive specialties–psychiatry, family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatrics.
If your goal is to become a neurosurgeon, you may be better served by studying medicine in your home country.
@WayOutWestMom thanks for the info. Greatly appreciated. I might still go for the neuroscience option in the US or I’ll just do Computer Science.
I’ll be fine with either. Just don’t wanna end up doing something I hate lol.
Thanks once again :)!
If you want to be a neurosurgeon, I suggest not coming to the USA and simply pursuing your education/career in South Africa.
Plenty of american medical students don’t even get to follow their dream of being a neurosurgeon and they don’t have the uphill battle you’ll have just to get into medical school.
There is a major difference in neuroscience and neurosurgeon. A UG freshman neuroscience major is about fifteen years apart from a neurosurgeon. To be a board certified neurosurgeon you need not only do well in the UG with high Mcat to be accepted by med school, but also do well in the med school including high scores in Usmle, in America that is a graduate school, get a good recommendation from surgery rotation, pass the grusome, brutal first year surgery residency( think 16 hour work a day) and then if you still can do it, another 5-6 years of residency / fellowship.