Medicine And Neuroscience

[forumdata]

I am posting this for someone else. They are only interested in neuroscience related courses and currently pursuing a neuroscience major Is it possible to achieve an MD degree with most courses being only neuroscience.

There are further questions about MCAT prep but I will post in the MCAT subdivision. Thanks

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[sah]

The graduate education for this would be a masters or Ph.D. The M.D. would not be that focused.
If you are thinking of neurology or neurosurgery, these are additional years of training after the M.D.

 

[Muq]

I am posting this for someone else. They are only interested in neuroscience related courses and currently pursuing a neuroscience major Is it possible to achieve an MD degree with most courses being only neuroscience.

There are further questions about MCAT prep but I will post in the MCAT subdivision. Thanks

Regardless of how many neuroscience courses they take, they still need the pre-req courses (gen bio, gen chem, orgo, biochem, etc) if they want MD admission

 

[Mr.Smile12]

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[Goro]

I am posting this for someone else. They are only interested in neuroscience related courses and currently pursuing a neuroscience major Is it possible to achieve an MD degree with most courses being only neuroscience.

There are further questions about MCAT prep but I will post in the MCAT subdivision. Thanks

Answer is no. Big time no.

 

[esob]

Mostly...no...but, if one wanted an academic career in psychiatry, it could be a viable degree. You still are going to end up taking mostly biology courses, however, in order to meet the pre-reqs

 

[sophop]

I might be totally misreading OP's question, but a good friend of mine and I (both currently residents at T5s - and no, not neurology or psych) were both neuro majors at our respective LACs. In fact, neuroscience seemed to be the predominent pre-med major at both since it required classes not only in neuro, but also in psych, physics, bio, calc and stats, and the various chems - which pretty much covered all the med school pre-reqs and MCAT subjects. So no, maybe most of our classes weren't directly in neuro, but a big chunk o' them were in the major.

 

[Muq]

I might be totally misreading OP's question, but a good friend of mine and I (both currently residents at T5s - and no, not neurology or psych) were both neuro majors at our respective LACs. In fact, neuroscience seemed to be the predominent pre-med major at both since it required classes not only in neuro, but also in psych, physics, bio, calc and stats, and the various chems - which pretty much covered all the med school pre-reqs and MCAT subjects. So no, maybe most of our classes weren't directly in neuro, but a big chunk o' them were in the major.

Yes, same with my university: most major requirements overlap with pre-med classes. However, assuming OP meant only neuroscience classes, it wouldn't be enough to satisfy

 

[Mr.Smile12]

There's also clinical psychology. We have a forum on that.

 

[lacrossegirl420]

For premed it’s possible, but for med school the vast majority of courses (including the non-basic science classes) are not directly neuroscience related. If they have a complete aversion to taking anything outside of neuroscience then med school’s probably not the best fit, grad school would be better

 

[forumdata]

Thank you all for the replies. Completed the pre med courses which included all of non neuroscience courses. Trying to see if there is a path in MD where most of the courses are in neuroscience. Gathered from the replies that this is not feasible.

Deciding between MS/PHD and MD. Weighing in the pros and cons

 

[sah]

Not sure if you are asking about neuroscience classes as an undergraduate or graduate/professional education student.