B's and C's in science classes will make getting accepted to medical school difficult. My sense is that a science GPA of below 3.2 is going to make g...

I would think it is extremely rare to find a school that has a major in "pre-med" if it exists at all. Pre-med just means that you are anticipating a...

Do med-psych people only take care of medical issues for psych patients or can they act as consultants? Med-psych people are able to do pretty much a...

how to become a coroner Check out the above thread - if you can't find your answers there, ask what your specific questions are.

There is no EXACT gpa that you need to get into medical school. As I'm not on an admissions board, I don't know the relative range for schools, but b...

I am assuming you are asking whether you would rather be a psychiatrist than a psychologist? If so, check out the thread below. Basically, psychiatr...

I'm assuming you are asking whether you should become a psychologist or a psychiatrist? I would review the following thread and then post in this t...

You can see my comments in a related thread: Poor grades, GPA, and medical school

I apologize for the delay in responding - sometimes my day job keeps me busy 🙂 I think that your first semester GPA can be explained as an "adjustme...

Nursing degrees are outside of my general field of knowledge. However, I would guess that an Associates for Applied Sciences, being an associates deg...

The best way I can explain it is that you would have had to have taken first year biology that biology majors take, 1st year chemistry that chemistry ...

Depending on the college you got yoru AS at, I'm not sure that your biology and organic chemistry class would count towards the pre-med requirements. ...

I'm assuming you are talking about college recommendations for medical school, right? If so, then you obviously want to do well in the class, and it'...

I have never heard that credit load is a factor in medical school admissions. I really don't think they'd pay any attention, let alone be impressed b...

If you are already a freshman, then it probably doesn't matter much what college is best for that kind of career choice at this point. If you want to...

You don't have to major in a science / medical field to count as pre-med. To be pre-med, you have to complete the requirements for medical school, wh...

I don't know if there are any child psychiatrists who frequent this board, but I had considered the field. You need to go to undergraduate (regular) ...

Nope.

It's been 3 years since I finished residency, and unfortunately, I have not kept in as close of touch with people from other programs to gauge their s...

I am not aware of any medical schools stating they require calculus based physics. However, that does not mean there are not med schools that may req...

See the response above I posted - if it isn't clear, please ask more clearly what aspect of schooling you are inquiring about. I believe the resource...

As long as you can explain why you took time off, I would not expect it to be a problem. You don't even need to have an academic reason for taking ti...

I don't believe there are any absolute rules about where you take your classes, but the intensity of the class has to be such that you are prepared fo...

I don't have any solid evidence, but my own experience is that Emory Medical School does not give any special preference to Emory College undergrads -...

Basically, in high school you will need to take the classes to get into a good college - for most people that means the honors level classes. You'll ...

I'm not sure about elsewhere, but at Emory, the difference was that the BS required a few extra classes, or taking a higher level of a particular clas...

if you could add a few specific questions, like what information you are looking for, I can try to help. As for money issues for schooling - they can...

I can't really offer too much advice on this question. I think you are going to have a tough time knowing what to expect prior to getting started and...

In order to be a board eligible pediatrician, you need to complete 3 years of a pediatrics residency. I believe in most states, you can apply for a p...

I don't recall hearing fibroymyalgia referred to as minority disease. At this time, I haven't collected a list of fibromyalgia resources, but I antic...

Hard for me to say what the lowest allowable GPA is to get into medical school - a lot depends on the particular school and what they are looking for....

As this has become one of the most common questions around here recently, I did a search to see if I could find some real data on these numbers. Fort...

A few other comments based on what you've added - I'm assuming you'll be graduating a year early - in which case it's not a problem. Your age is no...

I think you have included most of the important information that will go into a decision making process - except letters of recommendation, which I as...

DO is a doctor of osteopathy. MD is a medical doctor. It's not very straightforward as to the differences though. Both go through an almost identic...

Top grades at an average school, plus solid MCAT score is probably fine. As long as the "average" school has a reputation of people being able to get...

I think the person was asking about med-psych UNITS, not just residency programs. A few years back I put together a list of residency programs for th...

My recollection is that there were more med-psych programs and then the fp/psych started to pop up after that. As for geographic location - my own gu...

It doesn't matter so much what your major is, as long as you've taken all of the pre-med requirements, which includes: 1 year general chemistry 1 yea...

I'm not sure at this point - all I know is that University of Iowa has had a med-psych unit for a long time, and I'm guessing it is still operational.

I'd say you have a very good chance of getting into a combined med-psych program. First of all, remember, most people go to med school somewhere that...

If you have read the above threads I referenced and you still have questions, then just let me know what they are and I'll do my best to answer them.

You would take the science classes some place, as you would need to know that information for the MCAT. The people I know who had another career be...

I would guess that there is little correlation between going to a top name school for undergrad and med school relative to salary. There is a much bi...

You can go to medical school, but you'll have to have completed the pre-med requirements plus take the MCAT. The required classes are: 1 year biology...

When I interviewed for the med-psych programs, I didn't even tell the places I was also looking at peds-psych-child psych, but at the peds-psych-child...

You say you are a "med grad" - do you mean you've finished me school and are taking time off, or are you in your 3rd year of med school getting ready ...

It really doesn't make much difference which college you go to as far as what specialty of medicine you ultimately want to practice. The better que...

Sorry for not responding sooner. My reply is actually similar to the above comments - it is usually okay if you have a valid reason for doing so. Pe...

This is probably as good of an estimate as you will find as far as competitiveness of residencies goes. I've listed the main programs, in decreasing ...