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What are some good majors for someone planning to go into the med field?

What are some good majors for someone planning to go into the Medical field? In 10th grade, starting college planning and I'm interested in Surgery or Anesthesiology as my career.

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Mary Virginia’s Answer

As I'm sure you know, your major does not truly affect your chances at medical school. I've known peers of all majors that have applied. Some of my peers have strong other passions in areas of study such as English, finance, etc that are not typical and have done fine majoring in these. However majoring in a science or health related area will likely make your course load easier. For example if you majored in biology you would have a lot of overlap with your required pre-med courses, so you might not have to take as many hours each semester as someone studying a non-science major. My advice would be to take the science route if you do not have another strong area of interest. This will give you more time to focus on getting good grades in those hard courses. A downside associated with this is that your plan b might be teaching the particular science you study. For example if you had majored in accounting, your plan b could be being an accountant but you definitely will be studying more often. Personally I majored in public health and found it to be a good happy medium. It has a lot of cross overs with science classes, but if things do not work out I am planning on attending a public health masters program because I do love the field. This was a lot of information to take in, but it's all about what you enjoy! Prioritize yourself.
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Audrey’s Answer

In recent years, medical schools have been looking for students from more diverse educational backgrounds, so my first answer is to major in whatever you actually enjoy and will get good grades in since it's your GPA and MCAT score that will make a huge contribution to your profile to medical school admissions staff. You will be required to complete a certain amount of science and math courses in undergraduate for admission to medical school. These often include algebra, calculus, chemistry, biology, physics, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. Other classes that end up being useful for medical school are psychology and sociology. If you end up doing a chemistry or biology major, you'll probably be required to take the same kinds of classes, so it reduces the load on your schedule. In my medical school class, biology and chemistry degrees were the most common, but there were also people who majored in psychology, English, Spanish, and even music.
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Lauren’s Answer

I'd also recommend checking out public health! Like others have said, you will have to take pre-med requirements regardless of your major, but public health is pretty related to medicine and super interesting in my opinion! It allows you to take classes in a lot of different areas (like global health, environmental health, biostatistics, health policy, epidemiology), which could help you figure out what you do and don't like. Also, an understanding of issues surrounding health equity and health policy seems to be super important for future doctors to grasp, so it could definitely help with that!
I am currently getting my master's in public health and love how interdisciplinary the field is!
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