Physics and gen chem are on the MCAT. The physical science section is 100% gen chem and physics questions and represents 1/4 of your total score on the exam.
There’s no pure math on the MCAT, but there is a good chunk of questions require an understanding of applied statistics/biostatistics.
In med school there is no math or gen chem, but you will need physics when you get to pulmonology cardiology and nephrology. (Partial pressures, Venturi effect, wave functions, diffusion, etc) You’ll also need a firm grasp of stats and biostats. Depending on the med school, you may have an actual course in advanced biostatistics.
As a bio or neuroscience major, you generally won’t need a lot of advanced math, physics or gen chem for your UL coursework. (Not true if you’re chem or biochem major.)
@Goodluck123 : No, I was talking about your neuroscience major (MCAT is a different story). I don’t know what school you go to though. Emory is an exception in neuroscience because the curriculum is more research and neurophysiology focused as opposed to neuroanatomy and neuropharmacology oriented. There are 4 core courses and 1 is heavily math, chem and physics based (it is the first weedout of the 4 and usually), and then another is based on reviewing the primary literature in neuroscience and assumes that students have mastered neurophysiological concepts. You may want to check your neuroscience curriculum to see if it has similar requirements as that would also mean that it will save you to have had at least a medium instructor for chem and physics as well to increase your chances of doing well in such integrated courses.
@WayOutWestMom : hmm…I feel like many students who go on to graduate or medical school do not retain physics concepts but may retain them in context and thus be ready for those modules you mentioned. Basically, if a student takes a decently rigorous human physiology course, they’ll be exposed to a rigorous treatment of those systems that doesn’t water down the physics. So, technically students will who don’t get the best raw physics course could just relearn it in context through such a physiology course.
As for the MCAT, from what I know, have been shown, and have heard from pre-health students I mentored, getting good instruction in all those areas can be beneficial, especially if such courses gave at least some true application style problems (at Emory, many instructors for chemistry would try to integrate some biologically or medically related problems when possible which was good. Physics…not so much, pretty standard, but again neuro majors get the weeder course and bio majors usually take physiology so get to relearn physics in context).