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If so, are you getting experience while in premed? Certifications? Please share, I'm looking for advice.
What exactly is a BBA? For most schools you're going to have to have a bachelor's or equivalent. If that's an associate's degree, I think you will need something more. Some schools may only require something like 90 hours of college credit, but I think the vast majority of people applying will have a college degree. So it would still probably put you at a disadvantage.
I'd wager your average adcom member would probably have no clue what an MCSE or other certifications mean, so it probably would be only marginally beneficial.
I have a degree in computer engineering, btw.
If so, are you getting experience while in premed? Certifications? Please share, I'm looking for advice.
I've got 10 years of experience in IT, so I may be in a position to offer some advice. Depends on what your looking for.
I don't know....lots of certification and crap to go through for a part-time gig. I think if you illustrate a knowledge of the stuff you don't need to bother studying for tests. If anything, I'd look into a very specific facet and just get involved with that..digital health records, PACS, Radiology Information Systems, anything niche. You learn databasing and networks with that...but you also become a fairly valuable resource to a specific department.....which could help out in the end for recommendations or just general interest in specific specialities.
And do you think network+ is a good starting point? I like the security field, I don't know how exactly to apply that to health-care before I enter med school.
Oh, cool then. Just take premed classes and you should be fine, I would think.Firstly, BBA is Bachelors in Business Administration. It's what's called a Business degree.
Secondly, I wouldn't do the certifications and experience for adcoms. I'm talking about way down the line during and after residency, when computers will be even more ubiquitous and pervasive than they already are, computer saavy MD's will be needed.
But now that I have you here, are you getting any experience/certs before med school?