Is there any other path...?

[4EverBluDevils]

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To psychiatry other than med school? And in order to get into med school do you have to take the pre-med reqs?

 

[sikegeek]

To psychiatry other than med school? And in order to get into med school do you have to take the pre-med reqs?

No. Yes.

 

[whopper]

If you're having problems getting into an M.D. program (I've read some of your other posts), you could try getting into a D.O. program or going to a foreign medical school. Explore these options, as they too are competitive, though a bit easier to get into.

 

[fluffy2b]

To psychiatry other than med school? And in order to get into med school do you have to take the pre-med reqs?

Kind of glancing over your other posts, and seeing that you're having a difficult time with the med school pre-reqs, you might also want to consider the nursing/NP route, social work, etc. As a psych nurse, or a psychiatric NP, you would be able to assess patients and prescribe meds without having to go to med school-- chances are that you would have to be under the loose supervision of a licensed psychiatrist, but I would guess that you would have quite a bit of autonomy. Social work is also a really rewarding field-- social workers work closely with the psychiatrists and with the patients. The pros of not going to medical school would be that you wouldn't have to do the post-bac work without the guarantee of going to medical school.

Also, the fact that you're struggling this much in basic biology and don't seem to like medicine other than the field of psychiatry is a tad concerning since 99% of what you learn in med school are things other than psychiatry and it's pretty hard core. Take what you're learning in your basic biology course now and multiply it times 1000= the intensity of medical school. So if you don't like what you're doing now, you may not survive medical school.

 

[Ffinnian]

I would say if you are struggling with biology at the pre-med level, but are interested in psych, you should look at a counseling psychology PhD program. Med school is going to be brutal, and I think a psych NP is a very poor option if you want to treat people in a professional way.

 

[brightness]

You could also look into clinical psychology. This is a PhD program and it is a rigorous training with an emphasis on research, but less of the "hardcore" sciences- ie., chemistry, physics, biology. A reasonable background in biology and a splash of chemistry is good knowledge in clinical psychology to understand the mechanisms of the brain, but the pre-reqs are less science focused.

 

[Doc Samson]

Yes, Ffinnian, Shhhhh! Nice deep breaths... that's it.