First post! Greetings everyone!
I'm heavily considering a career change from engineering to an M.D. There's lots of questions to ask, most of which I haven't even discovered yet. But I'm currently in the process of determining what classes from my engineering degrees (M.S. & B.S.) that can be used towards my pre-med pre-reqs. The answer is... I'm missing quite a few. That has lead to a rediscovery of just how expensive college education is!!! Are there any scholarship or programs out there for those of us that have an established career but are wishing to enter medical school?
Thanks,
-Brian
Update:
I'm currently 28 and live in Iowa City, IA.
I have been employed by University of Iowa for six years, working as an electrical engineer developing space hardware (NASA spacecraft) for Juno and RBSP. The majority of the funding for these projects will be drying up in the next few months and as a result my hours will be likely reduced to 50% time. I figured this would be a good time to take courses and work, but am still looking for tuition assistance if any is available.
The UI provides tuition assistance for those that take courses that are applicable to developing the employee for the role they are in or can be directly promoted to. Such as an engineer taking management classes to become a project manager. I think I would have a hard time making an argument that organic chemistry would be beneficial to this role. As I understand it looks as though the courses I would need to take prior to the MCAT are:
Chem 2 + Lab
Bio 1 & 2 + Lab
O-Chem 1 & 2 + Lab
Also my GPAs are as follows
3.50 for B.S. in Electrical Engineering
3.49 for M.S. in Electrical Engineering
I'm heavily considering a career change from engineering to an M.D. There's lots of questions to ask, most of which I haven't even discovered yet. But I'm currently in the process of determining what classes from my engineering degrees (M.S. & B.S.) that can be used towards my pre-med pre-reqs. The answer is... I'm missing quite a few. That has lead to a rediscovery of just how expensive college education is!!! Are there any scholarship or programs out there for those of us that have an established career but are wishing to enter medical school?
Thanks,
-Brian
Update:
I'm currently 28 and live in Iowa City, IA.
I have been employed by University of Iowa for six years, working as an electrical engineer developing space hardware (NASA spacecraft) for Juno and RBSP. The majority of the funding for these projects will be drying up in the next few months and as a result my hours will be likely reduced to 50% time. I figured this would be a good time to take courses and work, but am still looking for tuition assistance if any is available.
The UI provides tuition assistance for those that take courses that are applicable to developing the employee for the role they are in or can be directly promoted to. Such as an engineer taking management classes to become a project manager. I think I would have a hard time making an argument that organic chemistry would be beneficial to this role. As I understand it looks as though the courses I would need to take prior to the MCAT are:
Chem 2 + Lab
Bio 1 & 2 + Lab
O-Chem 1 & 2 + Lab
Also my GPAs are as follows
3.50 for B.S. in Electrical Engineering
3.49 for M.S. in Electrical Engineering
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