In college can I go through a nursing program also on a pre-med track?

Unfortunately nursing and medicine require different prerequisite courses. However, you can go to a liberal arts program and do premed courses which can then be used to apply to nursing or medical school. However, if you go to a nursing program those courses do not satisfy requirements to apply to medical school. But you can become a nurse and after working for a few years you can take several courses, the MCATS and apply to medical school. Nursing is a great career with multiple opportunities and less debt. Medicine requires a lot more time and financial investment. With the direction that health care is taking in this country, you will be able to do almost everything with an advanced nursing degree- either as a nurse practitioner or with another advanced nursing degree.
I love being a pediatrician but my son is a nurse and is very happy with his choice. He is working on a Operating Room Certificate while working as a nurse. If he had gone to medical school he would still be in his training with huge debt from medical school.

I'm pretty sure the course requirements for pre-med and nursing are different and to try to do both wouldn't be in your best interest. I say this because I know how involved the course work for nursing is, and while I can't speak from experience about med school, I know how much work goes into it. Before you make a decision, think about how hands on you want to be with patients. Nurses are on the front lines, they advocate and act as liaisons between the patient and the doctors because they spend the most time with them. The nice thing about getting a nursing degree is that once you graduate there are so many options as to what you can do- you can gain experience in different areas of nursing or choose to specialize in a specific field (for example, I am a psychiatric nurse and plan to get certified as soon as I meet the requirements). After some time working as a nurse, if you decided you want to go further, you can pursue a master's or doctorate in nursing which means you will be able to diagnose patients and prescribe medications. No matter which path you choose, it will be incredibly rewarding. You really can't go wrong in health care. Good luck!

It is fine if you are not sure yet exactly what you want to do in the future. Apply to nursing school and until then as well as during your program, take science electives if you can. I had a nursing school classmate who decided she wanted to go to medical school after we graduated and it worked out fine for her. I will say though that the anatomy and physiology and chemistry courses that we took in nursing school would not have counted as credits taken. The medical school courses were more advanced, but at least you would have a great knowledge base! I have been a nurse for nearly 33 years and have loved it. I went on and completed a masters in nursing and I feel I have a great deal of autonomy in my practice. There are so many opportunities in both medicine and nursing that I don't think you can go wrong!