Does latin help you in med school?

[byeh2004]

pre-med here

based on your med school class experience, do you think latin will help me during med school? thanks!

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[Iwy Em Hotep]

Exams are occasionally given in Latin. Aramaic is more common though - we're a diverse school.






Look, if you like the language, take it. It probably won't help you in any practical way, no. But it will be interesting and it certainly won't hurt.

 

[jennben4]

hee heee!!

Exams are occasionally given in Latin. Aramaic is more common though - we're a diverse school.






Look, if you like the language, take it. It probably won't help you in any practical way, no. But it will be interesting and it certainly won't hurt.

 

[LevatorAni]

If you plan to go to IU School of Medicine, you should take Latin at IU's Indianapolis campus. The Director of Admissions instructs both semesters.

Otherwise, Latin is useful about twice a semester. You're better off taking Aramaic, as mentioned earlier.

 

[Rzarecta]

pre-med here

based on your med school class experience, do you think latin will help me during med school? thanks!

Not sure, I just know that it totally pulls in much punani. "Vae me, puto, concacavi me!" Works like a charm...

 

[TheMightyAngus]

You'll probably have to study Latin for four years to build your vocabulary to a level where you can guess the meaning of a word without hitting the dictionary. I majored in Latin and the road to proficiency is long and arduous.

 

[njbmd]

pre-med here

based on your med school class experience, do you think latin will help me during med school? thanks!

Hi there,
The most useful language for medical practice in the United States is Spanish. You can look up the Latin derivatives of medical terms in a good dictionary but you can greatly help your career if you are fluent in Spanish as Latinos make up the largest minority group in the United States and need good physicians that can communicate well with them.

If I were heading for medical school today, I would major in American Studies, minor in Spanish and take my pre-med courses. My double major in biology and chemistry with minors in math and physics has been pretty useless. I also took five years of Latin in secondary school. This has been more useless than my majors and minors but I can translate Virgil, and Julius Caeser.

njbmd 🙂

 

[YouDontKnowJack]

no latin required. any average joe can figure out the stems after seeing many examples.

and learning the material is not about knowing the stems of the words.

 

[Ramoray]

Hi there,
The most useful language for medical practice in the United States is Spanish. You can look up the Latin derivatives of medical terms in a good dictionary but you can greatly help your career if you are fluent in Spanish as Latinos make up the largest minority group in the United States and need good physicians that can communicate well with them.



njbmd 🙂

I think this only perpetuates the problem that the illegal latinos and mexicans refuse to learn our language but yet demand service and treatment and not only drain our system because they dont pay **** but drain even more by requiring translators, doctors to learn spanish etc.. so not only do they not pay but they are more expensive patients thanpeople who do pay. if we keep all learning spanish and making it easier for these illegals and ignorants to get treatment, they will even do less and less to contribute. How ridiculous. If someoen can pay than i say we give a translator, speak spanish or whatever. no pay= no extra treatment = go back to your own country. USA is ridiculous

 

[DrBuzzLightYear]

pre-med here

based on your med school class experience, do you think latin will help me during med school? thanks!

no, i took four years before med school, it did not help in any way. yeah, sure, maybe now i know that synovial fluid is "egg-like", but in no way does that help you on the wards.

 

[YouDontKnowJack]

I think this only perpetuates the problem that the illegal latinos and mexicans refuse to learn our language but yet demand service and treatment and not only drain our system because they dont pay **** but drain even more by requiring translators, doctors to learn spanish etc.. so not only do they not pay but they are more expensive patients thanpeople who do pay. if we keep all learning spanish and making it easier for these illegals and ignorants to get treatment, they will even do less and less to contribute. How ridiculous. If someoen can pay than i say we give a translator, speak spanish or whatever. no pay= no extra treatment = go back to your own country. USA is ridiculous

my business is gonna be a cash business. No cash. No treatment.

You are NOT entitled to health care. biatch.

 

[Drugtech]

The most useful language for medical practice in the United States is Spanish. You can look up the Latin derivatives of medical terms in a good dictionary but you can greatly help your career if you are fluent in Spanish as Latinos make up the largest minority group in the United States and need good physicians that can communicate well with them.

I concur. Medical Spanish is a course that is finding its way into many medical schools. It is going to be of uber importance for physicians to speak Spanish in the near future. I majored in Biology and minored in Spanish, and if I had to do it all over again I would have majored in Spanish instead. When you learn Spanish, you also learn useful Latin stems that will show up in medicine as well. Just a thought 👍

 

[Ramoray]

my business is gonna be a cash business. No cash. No treatment.

You are NOT entitled to health care. biatch.

that is what i said isnt it? if i was unclear i agree, you cant pay go back to your own country. And if you absoultly have to stay and cant pay, at the VERY least learn the english language for christ sakes.

 

[Kathye42]

I think this only perpetuates the problem that the illegal latinos and mexicans refuse to learn our language but yet demand service and treatment and not only drain our system because they dont pay **** but drain even more by requiring translators, doctors to learn spanish etc.. so not only do they not pay but they are more expensive patients thanpeople who do pay. if we keep all learning spanish and making it easier for these illegals and ignorants to get treatment, they will even do less and less to contribute. How ridiculous. If someoen can pay than i say we give a translator, speak spanish or whatever. no pay= no extra treatment = go back to your own country. USA is ridiculous

It is good to know another language. In Puerto Rico all doctors and medical students know at least how to speak English and Spanish because most of the people from the US that come to PR only know how to speak English. You are just making an ignorant generalization about all latinos. It is not a waste of time to be educated and learn more than one language.

 

[PostalWookie]

Premeds who genuinely care about helping people take Spanish or some other language that will enable them to better serve their community.

Douchebag premeds trying to get a dubious edge on their med school classmates take Latin

 

[noncestvrai]

Douchebag premeds trying to get a dubious edge on their med school classmates take Latin

You have to explain to me how taking latin makes someone a douchebag.

Most of anatomy has a latin or greek origin, even for people who speak French, Spanish, Italian, English anatomy terms often keep their roots...for instance, renal artery, well in French kidney is "rein".

By no means, you need to know latin for medicine, however, I was told that hieroglyphs may come in handy on the wards.

noncestvrai

 

[njbmd]

I think this only perpetuates the problem that the illegal latinos and mexicans refuse to learn our language but yet demand service and treatment and not only drain our system because they dont pay **** but drain even more by requiring translators, doctors to learn spanish etc.. so not only do they not pay but they are more expensive patients thanpeople who do pay. if we keep all learning spanish and making it easier for these illegals and ignorants to get treatment, they will even do less and less to contribute. How ridiculous. If someoen can pay than i say we give a translator, speak spanish or whatever. no pay= no extra treatment = go back to your own country. USA is ridiculous

Hey there,
I have loads of LEGAL immigrants (not just Latino)who do not speak English well enough for me to provide good medical care. It is my job to make sure that I can communicate with all of my patients (regardless of their immigration status). Many patients, legal or otherwise, often revert back to their native languages when under the stress of illness. If I have to speak Spanish, Latin, Greek or whatever, I am going to provide the highest level of surgical care possible regardless of financial status. I am a surgeon first and the rest is meaningless. My parents were both immigrants and I could never deny medical care to anyone in need.

nbjmd 🙂

 

[Iwy Em Hotep]

By no means, you need to know latin for medicine, however, I was told that hieroglyphs may come in handy on the wards.

noncestvrai

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Sorry, they don't. 🙁

 

[Dr.Bevo]

pre-med here

based on your med school class experience, do you think latin will help me during med school? thanks!

A strong foundation in Latin means you will always pronounce Latin words correctly in Anatomy lab, look pretentious, and then be shamed into the "americanized" pronunciation.

ex: meatus (hole),,,,,,,,,,,,,should be MAY - AH - TOOSE...............everybody says ME - Ate - Tuss or Meet - us.

This will happen many times.

Seriously, if you want something useful language wise, take Spanish. Even if you aren't fluent, just knowing some basics can help you a lot.

 

[yellowcat322]

I think this only perpetuates the problem that the illegal latinos and mexicans refuse to learn our language but yet demand service and treatment and not only drain our system because they dont pay **** but drain even more by requiring translators, doctors to learn spanish etc.. so not only do they not pay but they are more expensive patients thanpeople who do pay. if we keep all learning spanish and making it easier for these illegals and ignorants to get treatment, they will even do less and less to contribute. How ridiculous. If someoen can pay than i say we give a translator, speak spanish or whatever. no pay= no extra treatment = go back to your own country. USA is ridiculous

I'm sorry to see a statement like that from someone going into medicine (never too late to reconsider). If you think that if doctors don't learn Spanish then the illegal immigrant problem in America will be solved then you are the one being ridiculous. Illegal immigrants don't come here for the physicians fluent in Spanish and they don't EXPECT anything. They just get sick and it is our job as physicians to treat WHATEVER patient we get. By refusing to learn other languages you are not doing squat to ward off illegal immigrant -- you're just being content with providing mediocre health care.

 

[PostalWookie]

Taking latin does not make someone a douchebag

Taking latin solely to get an edge in med school makes someone a douchebag and some more

 

[Peterock]

my business is gonna be a cash business. No cash. No treatment.

You are NOT entitled to health care. biatch.

Good *******, because many Mexican and other South American patients are much more likely to carry nothing but cash on them in the first place than the average US citizen. That means your practice will be swarming with the people you hate the most.

To Ramoray and YouDontKnowJack
Seriously, it isn't as if we don't have millions of non-English speaking minorities in this country including caucasians/asains/indians etc. Way to talk tough on SDN by the way, I'm sure when several Mexican-Americans walk by you're a ****ing church mouse. 👍

Way to go internet tough guys!

 

[Blade28]

Helped me with spelling (and remembering) many medical terms, especially in anatomy.

 

[KNightInBlue]

Not sure, I just know that it totally pulls in much punani.

LMAO! Good one...

 

[aragonh]

At my work, they had a 5 week "class" on medical terminology. Learned all the Latin that I needed in that course.