Are premeds stereotyped?

[TTSD]

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Here's another fun question about premends. Anyone been stereotyped by freakin' humanities majors just because you're a science geek?

Such as, because you're a biology major you would know nothing about economics or world politics? Don't they know? We have to take their classes as well.. for goodness sake.. I'm one of the top economics student all the way to advanced macro, and two other humanities departments have written me letters asking if I would like to change majors.

 

[dstn2bmd]

You could probably make more money if you did!

Heb

 

[DD214_DOC]

The problem with most premeds is that they take one or two low-level courses in a subject area and assume they're experts in that discipline.

I see so many premeds attempt armchair psychology because they've had psyc 101 and another psyc course. There's such a huge difference in low-level and upper-level courses it isn't funny.

 

[Gleevec]

The WORST premeds in all sense of the the word are those who give medical advice when they don't know anything. Not only is this extremely arrogant, but highly dangerous as well in some cases. Its also disturbing that these premeds have to be so arrogant as to not be able to say "im not trained for that yet". I can only imagine what they will do when they dont know a diagnosis when they are doctors-- perhaps just guess randomly instead of giving a referral?

 

[TTSD]

Originally posted by Gleevec
The WORST premeds in all sense of the the word are those who give medical advice when they don't know anything. Not only is this extremely arrogant, but highly dangerous as well in some cases. Its also disturbing that these premeds have to be so arrogant as to not be able to say "im not trained for that yet". I can only imagine what they will do when they dont know a diagnosis when they are doctors-- perhaps just guess randomly instead of giving a referral?

I agree.. and those doctors/quacks DO exist. You see them all the time when patients come in from other doctors and they are MUTILATED!

It was awful, this one lady came in from Canada with two deep brain implants that her doctor said he did "just fine." The poor lady had such SEVERE dystonia from it BOTH her scapulas were CRACKED and all her fingers were BROKEN.

 

[dara678]

It works the other way too. I've heard a lot of science and engineering majors degrade humanities majors because such studies are supposed to be "easy" and the "flaky way out". Makes me so mad sometimes. Although premeds are stereotyped, a lot of premeds think they're so awesome and better than everyone else.

 

[DrArsenic]

Well I am an Econ major so screw them. lol To beat them at their game you have to be them.😎

 

[fonzy]

Originally posted by dara678
It works the other way too. I've heard a lot of science and engineering majors degrade humanities majors because such studies are supposed to be "easy" and the "flaky way out". Makes me so mad sometimes. Although premeds are stereotyped, a lot of premeds think they're so awesome and better than everyone else.

When I was young I used to paint and all I wanted to do was painting and music. I never thought I would be putting in several yrs into engineering. Besides arts i had a lot of respect for doctors as I thought they did great work for health care.

Now I want to try medicine. If I could I would like to learn playing piano again. And I do paint...in my imagination 😉
I think [that is my experience] most premeds with bio sciences background do think they are better than others in that they are future docs.

 

[AspiringDoctor9]

Hi guys,

I totally agree with you on both accounts...

- Premeds are labelled as cutthroat geeks on my campus, definately not something to be proclaiming to the world. They are stereotyped as anti-social, and sometimes immature people who lack greater perspective outside their limited disciplines.
- Then on the other hand, humanities majors are seen as lazy, stupid and incapable of handling something difficult (meaning science).

I guess it seems like an ideological faction-war of limited sorts, it just depends what side you're on, and whether or not you believe in a hierarchy of disciplines.

 

[Nutmeg]

I think the real issue is that there are two types of students--those with a balanced education and those with a scewed perspective. It really doesn't matter what you major in, but if you only grudgingly take any breadth requirements--whether that's a humanities major that takes astronomy as their only science class because they heard it was easy, or the engineer that thinks the only reason that a person would major in history is because they suck at math--you are inherently uneducated. That's why ad coms place so much emphasis on breadth and a balanced education. I think that some of these premeds who think that getting into med school is "a game" that you have to "know how to play" are going to have a very hard time concealing their shallowness and immaturity during their interviews.

 

[ducam]

do i count i'm microbiology and econ double major. i love both of them so much. I don't give out medical advice but when i know something i'll correct one of my friends when they get it wrong.

Recently my friend says it take 7 days to do a mono test when in fact it takes 7 days for mono to show up on a test. never any medical advice.