Question by Kim: Can you use a biomedical engineering major to go to medical school?
I know that med school requirements are basically biology, chemistry, physics, calculus and english. I would like to know if I majored in biomedical engineering if i could use that to go to medical school and eventually become a neurologist. I know there are neuroscience and biology majors out there, but I just want to have a useful degree if I decide to change my mind at the end of the four years.
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Answer by steam3
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This really depends on your school and the med school requirements. At my university, electrical engineering – biomedical option does provide all the pre-requisites for med school, but biomedical engineering options in other engineering disciplines such as mechanical engineering and civil engineering do not provide all the necessary courses required for med school application. So check with your engineering faculty.
If you can get to med school via biomedical engineering, I’d seriously suggest you go down that route, because even if for whatever reason you don’t make the cut, you’re still far more likely to find a highly paid, well respected job than say the average science kid that couldn’t get into med.
Yes, you can use a biomedical engineering major to go to medical school, as long as you satisfy the academic requirements for admission to medical school. You may find that the requirements for medical school pile on some additional courses in addition to those required for your major, so hopefully you are one of those people who can survive without much sleep.