Dietitian premed pros/cons

[FakeEmpire]

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Hi all so I am nontraditional premed waiting to be complete on secondaries like many of you. I'm starting to second guess my platform-health promotion and disease prevention!! 🙂

I am a dietitian with my masters is public health. I have great EC (research, volunteer, and leadership) but low MCAT(25N) and ave grades(3.59c 3.65s) for DO.

Anybody wanna chime in on pros and cons to being an RD applicant? Or how I focused a lot of my applicant on healthcare and it's changing landscape?

 

[NeuroLAX]

Can't think of any cons to being a RD applicant to med school. The focus on preventative medicine is going to become much larger in the future, so a pro would be that you have experience talking to people about ways they can/need to change their diet.. either to lose weight or as part of necessary diet restrictions, i.e. Parkinson's patients and eating a lot of protein with their meds = no bueno for l-dopa absorption.

 

[MedPR]

Parkinson's patients and eating a lot of protein with their meds = no bueno for l-dopa absorption.

Well look at you mr smarty pants.

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[411309]

this is pretty much my platform too. majored exercise science been in a gym setting for 10+ years love this sorta thing.

 

[FakeEmpire]

Thanks for the insight. I am just over thinking things right now but I am worried I focused too much on the big picture in my essays. I talked about policy and I hope that I didn't come across like an applicant who doesn't actually want to work with patients because I do.