Pre-Med questions

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Which CUNY College has a major for Pre-Med?</p>

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<p>You can major in anything for med school. Premed just designates that you are taking the courses necessary for applying to medical school, not an actual major.</p>

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<p>Alright, which CUNY College has a class for Pre-med?</p>

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<p>All CUNYs should offer the coursework necessary for med school, please see the Coursework sticky thread at the top of this forum for classes needed; be aware that this is changing somewhat with the new MCAT and shifts in med school requirements.</p>

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<p>In order to become a medical professional such as a specialist, what major courses do I need?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/214382-coursework.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/214382-coursework.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“Medical professional such as a specialist” is kind of vague. Premed courses are the same regardless of what type of doc you want to be, and can be found in that link above (spoiler: 1yr each of bio, chem, orgo, and physics, plus a class in each of English and math). Which means the future pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons take the same undergrad classes as the future rural fam med docs and the future oncologists at major academic centers. They don’t specialize until after residency, usually. (So, if you wanted to become a pediatric oncologist, for example, you’d go to undergrad (4), then med school (4), then a pediatrics residency (3), then an oncology fellowship (2?).)</p>

<p>Now, if you mean a different kind of medical professional–nursing, PT, OT, PA, NP, pharm–then the coursework is different and I have no idea what it involves.</p>

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<p>Alright, which CUNY College has a class for Pre-med?</p>

<p>Virtually every college has the pre-med pre-req classes. They aren’t unique…they’re normal classes that many STEM majors take:</p>

<p>bio I and II
general chem I and II
organic chem I and II
physics I and II
Calc I</p>

<p>Not sure what the new req’ts are:</p>

<p>biochem? </p>

<p>You seem to be expecting to take unusual classes before med school. No.<br>
And, you don’t take medical specialty classes as an undergrad.</p>