<p>I'm pre-health (not exactly sure what profession in health I want to be in yet, so I'm just doing general research about prereqs) Here's a few questions I have:
1) I'm exempted from taking BILD 1,2,3 because of AP bio, so what upper division classes can I take to satisfy the one year of bio requirement? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure not just ANY upper div bio classes will do right?
I've already taken BICD 100 (Genetics), does that class count towards the requirement?
I'll also eventually be taking BIBC 102 (Metabolic Biochem), BIMM 100 (molecular bio), BIMM 124 (medical microbio), BIMM 120 (bacteriology), BIMM 114 (virology), and BICD 140 (immunology). Will any/all these classes satisfy the one-year requirement?</p>
<p>2) Does UCSD offer anatomy? If so, what's the name of that class? I've looked at the course catalog and it doen't look like they do... </p>
<p>3) Should I take physiology at another college? SD only offers mammalian physiology and I think for pre-health, human physiology is required.</p>
<p>4) Should I take Chem 140C? I'm only required to do up to B for my major, but I can take C as part of my ud bio elective.</p>
<p>5) Will BIMM 124 (medical microbio) satisfy the microbio class requirement that some schools have? There's also SIO 126 (marine microbio)</p>
<p>6) 1 course in Psyc is required for many schools as well. I've taken Psyc (I forgot if it was 2 or 3) and I'll take some upper divs for my GEs later. Will ANY of psyc class do?</p>
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<li><p>I BELIEVE you can take any upper division biology class. You’re upper division coursework will like show future medical schools (or whichever health profession you choose) that you have proficient background in biology. If you want to directly correlate it with BILD 1,2,3, you could take the more advanced version of those class. Like BILD 1 is about the cell, so you could take cell biology (BICD 110), instead of the lower division course. But I believe any class will work, like genetics or molecular biology. You may want to look specifically into the requirements in different schools or for different health professions because they may have different requirements, though. </p></li>
<li><p>I don’t think UCSD offers anatomy. The closest would be mammalian physiology, but I’ve never taken it so I don’t know if they discuss anatomy as well (I know other classes are usually “anatomy and physiology”). BIPN 110 (Organ Systems and Diseases) says that they cover “in-depth instruction to human anatomy and diseases” and they talk about some systems’ “normal anatomy, pathology, and relevant scientific frontiers.” I don’t know if that would still be accepted by health programs, but it may still be useful to take.</p></li>
<li><p>I would imagine mamm phys would cover pretty much human physiology, but I never took the class so I wouldn’t know. Whether or not health programs would accept that, I don’t know, but you could take human physiology at a different school. Mamm phys would still probably be a good class to take though, regardless.</p></li>
<li><p>I believe medical schools require a year of organic chemistry, so you should take 140C in that case. If the other professions you are looking at require a year of organic chemistry, you’ll probably want to take 140C as well, but if they don’t, then it doesn’t matter.</p></li>
<li><p>It may, but you don’t know for sure unless you take to the programs you are looking at. Bacteriology and virology are also good classes that you already have to take that are contained in microbiology. I would imagine bacteriology would be satisfactory based on the material, since it’s the prerequisite for the Microbiology Lab, but don’t quote me on that.</p></li>
<li><p>Any of the psyc classes should do. I think there’s one that I thought about taking on medicine (Social Psychology and Medicine or something) that might be of interest to you. Or Abnormal Psychology might be a good one to take if you’re looking at healthcare professions. I believe their adding psychology to the MCAT, aren’t they? If you’re interested in medical school, you may want to take a psych class that relates to the new material.</p></li>
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<p>Sorry I couldn’t be more help! I’m just going off of my impressions of most of the classes, but you may get better advice talking to an adviser or perhaps by joining a pre-health org.</p>