<p>I'm acutally an engineering undergrad, but I've been wondering, do practicing nurses ever go to med school?</p>
<p>Investment bankers have gone on to med school. Engineers. My HS English teacher got into Stanford Med School the year after I had her. So, why not nurses?</p>
<p>Ever? Yes, definitely.</p>
<p>To an "outsider", the posts from high school students and undergrads make it look like the only way to med school is the straight from high school to college to med school pathway. It is not.</p>
<p>Some non-traditional pathway doctors I have met in my career, in no particular order:
- nurses
- respiratory therapists
- engineers
- commercial pilots
- Anesthesia Assistants
- military fighter pilots; honestly, my time in the military exposed me to a number of Army, Navy, and Air Force doctors who were "something else" before deciding to go to med school.</p>
<p>I have had a slightly different question for a while, if someone majored in nursing and got a bachelors, could they apply to med school directly out of college, and have nursing as safety career if they don't get accepted? Would that be looked down upon from the adcoms?</p>