Calculator requirement?

[cargirl110]

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Are high-end calculators required in medical school for any classes?

Thanks!

 

[Green Chimneys]

Most likely not. Whatever hunk of junk you already have may come in handy if you have a biostatistics or epidemiology course, but you're definitely not going to need some high end graphing, calculus solving calculator for general use in medical school.

 

[Law2Doc]

Are high-end calculators required in medical school for any classes?

Thanks!

No. You want something that can do logarhythmic functions and simple math. You can get a perfectly adequate one at any drug store for $10.

 

[RxnMan]

Are high-end calculators required in medical school for any classes?

Thanks!

No. TI-85 or better is not required. The most you'll need to remember is first order kinetics equations for pharm.

 

[njbmd]

I got by all four years with a free calculator from one of the drug companies. You don't need to purchase a calculator other than a cheap one for medical school.

 

[Tiger26]

No. TI-85 or better is not required. The most you'll need to remember is first order kinetics equations for pharm.

Funny, I ended up using a supercomputer. Well, to each his own I guess😉

 

[Hurricane95]

I prefer using matlab for all my medical calculations.

Nah, j/k...what everyone else said. Minimal math required, any regular old scientific calculator will do.

 

[Tiger26]

Actually, our school usually embeds a cpu-based calculator w/the question (we have computer based exams)

However, on one of our path tests, they forgot to put it in and had some prevalance question or genetics thing or whatever where the two potential answers were something like 92.4 % and 93.2%. Half the class got it wrong and I ended up spending about 15 of our 60 alloted minutes on it checking and rechecking. There was a lot of b!tching about it, but people didn't get the point back cause you can really argue w/the accuracy of long division.

 

[Blade28]

Nope. Any plain ol' one will do.

 

[TMP-SMX]

I wasn't aware calculators were allowed at some schools. For this first year they haven't been allowed. Honestly though the only calculations you are doing is long division and very simple logarithms.

 

[MattD]

10 fingers and a brain.





If you don't have all 10 fingers, wear sandals....

 

[TMP-SMX]

10 fingers and a brain.





If you don't have all 10 fingers, wear sandals....

I do that too. 🙂

 

[dancinjenn]

You can't use a calc on any STEP test so why get in the habit of doing it now. Use your brain and learn to do simple math fast. It will come in handy esp. when in 3rd year some random q comes up about calc'ing a FENA, a lyte reaplacement, I/O discrepancies...etc. Also if you are at a location that still has paper charting your math has to be good to double check what was written there - it isn't always right.

 

[bjackrian]

I have a little calculator that clips to my stethescope and it's all I've needed (got it free from a drug rep). Plus, almost all med students have a PDA at this point which has far more computing power for calculations than you'll ever need.

 

[TRKATK]

I never used one except in biostats. All I used was a scientific. Can't even find the calculator now. 🙂

 

[nlax30]

I have a windows laptop so.......

1) "Start"
2) "Run"
3) Type "calc"
4) Hit Enter/Ok

 

[DoctaJay]

Are high-end calculators required in medical school for any classes?

Thanks!

Anytime we use a calculator, it is provided by our school, and we have only used them like 4 times. And they are the very very basic calculators.