Ross434 said:
I'm thinking of switching my major to this when i transfer next year. It seems pretty cool. You do research and classes in the med school, with the med school faculty, and i guess basically learn all the stuff about how disease works. Anyone have any experience?
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http://www.medmicro.wisc.edu/department/index.html
I'm a Microbiology major with a medical and public health concentration. I've never heard of a Medical Micro major (probably because my undergrad doesn't have an associated medical school), but I have taken a class called medical microbiology. It was pretty intense; the whole class was always in there the entire lab period both days plus again on Friday afternoons every week. We did lots of cultures, lab tests and several unknowns where we would get a bacterium and need to figure out what it was using the tests. We also learned about the natural microflora of the body, specialized media and various pathogens. It was kind of fun though, you had to get immunizations before the class and you always had to wear a labcoat, so it made me feel like a scientist.
(I'm a dork I know) I've also taken Immunology and Serology, which it sounds like you would also learn. I say go for it.
sounds like a great program, I'm jealous!