<p>I am a junior biomedical engineering student who is hoping to apply to medical school. I have to take a certain amount of technical electives...most being bioE classes. I have room for one technical elective and I was hoping to take Genetics or Biochemistry. I can only take one of them, so which I should I take? I posted a while back on what might be useful for med school and people said both genetics and biochem, so that's why I'm asking. I don't have a particular interest in one more than the other.</p>
<p>If I had to choose, I'd take Biochem.</p>
<p>biochem, because a fair number of schools recommend, but do not usually require it. If you haven't taken your MCAT yet though, genetics is a very useful class for that purpose.</p>
<p>I don't think you can go wrong with either. </p>
<p>Biochem is probably going to have more schools that either require it or recommend it as philly pointed out...of course I attend a medical school that requires both...</p>
<p>If I were you, I'd ask around your school and find out who the professors are and pick the course which has the better prof. Take advantage of the fact that you have some freedom of choice. If you find out that there's a really good prof in either discipline who occasionally teaches one of these courses, but isn't this semester, and you can avoid taking the class right now, I'd also try to wait for that professor if you can. I realize that many engineering programs are very regimented though.</p>
<p>As usual, BRM is on the money.</p>