oh god....REALLY!? ... really?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>okay so i'm in my first year at a competitive LAC and I'm thinking of majoring in premed and psych. by "thinking" i mean i have already started taking classes required for psych major (not yet premed because i started late). BUT I could easily switch my psych major to a bio major with a concentration in neural and behavioral sciences - would this look better for med school? </p>

<p>I could also just keep my psych major w/ concentration of neural and behavioral sciences.</p>

<p>Also, maybe a bio major would make it easier for me to complete my premed reqs especially since i'm starting (fashionably) late. I keep hearing different things! one person says bio major isnt great because there are so many and you learn so much in med school anyway while the other guy is saying that psych would look too easy and may be hard to complete because i'm late with premed already!! GAH!</p>

<p>I also read that being psych major with emt-b cert would be a disadvantage to my application for med school. it would only look good with bio majors. true?</p>

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<p>Your major does not make any appreciable difference.
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<p>I'm also not sure why anyone would think having an EMT-B cert w/a psych major would be bad but good with a bio major. I'm not sure what the foundation of a rumor like this would even be.</p>

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<p>i guess because they would think i was planning to be a paramedic...</p>

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<p>I've heard around here that EMT-B certification is only helpful if you end up using it.</p>

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<p>^^ Regarding the above, only become an EMT if you can do something with it. It should be something that leads to somewhat memorable experiences that you can share, gives you a taste of the health care system, etc. I can say from experience that the EMT class is pretty negligible when it comes to teaching you how to apply medicine to real people; you learn by actually going out and doing it.</p>