Guide me on the right path

[sailence]

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I live in Southern GA. I'm about to finish up my LPN and I have decided that I want to go to med school after having a lot of clinical expierence. I planned on going to get my RN but if I plan on going to med school and doing pre med would it be better to do pre med and then get my RN or should I get my RN then finish the pre med?

I'm not sure what electives to take. I'm not great at math, but I am amazing at science. I've done a lot of researching but I would feel better if I am able to communicate with someone that has been through this and knows what will be best. I would like to either go to Emory, Mercer or the Medical College of GA.

Any information that you bring to the table will really be appreciated and I thank you for taking the time to read and hopefully reply to my post.

 

[sailence]

I do not have a college degree, as I said I am about to finish up my LPN and get my licenses as LPN. I thought you had to have a 4 year degree before getting into med school so I was planning on getting my RN-BSN and then proceeding to med school. I am not fully informed on everything yet so forgive my ignorance, I'm still doing research on all of this so that I get the full picture of everything; this is part of my research I guess you could say.

So that being said, would it be wise for me to get my RN, taking all the required classes to get into med school should give me an RN-BSN, then take the other steps and get into med school? I plan on going to college full time.

Thank you Lokhtar for your reply.

 

[sailence]

Thank you very much.

 

[Instatewaiter]

I vote for getting your RN while taking the pre-med courses. It is not certain right now whether you will get in to med school. Unfortunately ~80-90% of the students who start the pre-med track don't end up applying. Of those ~10% who do apply, only half get in. Your RN is kind of like safety net. If you dont happen to get into med school you will at least have taken all of the course work to get your CRNA and you can pursue the nursing field.

Take your nursing courses (which may not count for BCMP-bio, chem, math, physics) and do well in the pre-med courses. Take and do well on the MCAT. Make sure to go to office hours of your pre-med courses to grease the wheels to getting a good letter of recommendation. Volunteer at a free clinic and make sure to shadow 4+ doctors.

 

[sailence]

When you say shadow 4 doctors, how long do I need to shadow them? as much as possible? maybe 2 hours a week? about 20 hours a month?..etc.

thanks for your reply.

 

[Instatewaiter]

Really all you need to do is find 4 or more doctors in different fields and shadow each for 1 day (5-8 hours). I would recommend shadowing 1 Primary care doc (peds, general IM, FM) one surgeon, an ER doc and at least 1 specialty of your choice, that way, you have covered all the major bases for medicine. So it doesnt have to be for too long just enough to get exposure to the different fields of medicine. The idea is to show Adcoms that you have researched medicine and that you have made a rational decision to pursue med school.

good luck

 

[sailence]

Thank you. Let me ask you this. If I pull out a 3.3-3.7 gpa on science courses and UG do you think I'll be able to get into a med school with a good MCAT score?

I did some of the practice MCAT from a link off this website and I got about 7/10 right on most of them and I havent even taking my Core classes at a college yet. just what I learned from my LPN school helped me.(dont know if this is useful in anyway.)