MSAR statistics question?????

[bob13]

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Can anyone help me by giving me a link or information on the statistics of allied health professionals? admissions rates, especially pharmacists? I have searched previous post but cannot find anything useful. From what I have read, pharmacists and all allied health professionals have a harder time getting into med school. Is this true?????

Thanks for the help!!!! 😕

 

[efex101]

Yes this is true go to aamc.org and somewhere there you will find a link regarding facts and figures it is there somewhere.

 

[Fermata]

Do adcoms view these people as those who would possibly also abandon medicine down the road?

 

[bob13]

Yes this is true go to aamc.org and somewhere there you will find a link regarding facts and figures it is there somewhere.

i have looked several times... i can only find the things like age and mcat scores....

 

[efex101]

Hmmmm, I am not sure why this happens. But I think (not based on cold hard facts either) that often those healthcare folks applying may be assuming some things. Maybe they do not have recent coursework, maybe they tend to score lower on the MCAT due to older pre-reqs, maybe they do not think that they have to jump through the same hoops that we all did, etc. I think that those that are informed and spend time doing a bang-up application do get in. I do know of some that did but they went back to school did or re-did pre-reqs, did extremely well on the MCAT, had good LORs and were accepted. The ones that I know of that did not get in because they assumed that they would be accepted based on their healthcare experience (working. as a whatever in whatever hospital).

 

[efex101]

On this link it states averages for mcat based on major that 'kind" of gives you an idea...

http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/archive/famg6e2002a.htm

 

[bob13]

efex,

thanks for the help.....

 

[calstudent]

It could be because they may not have articulated properly why they want to leave their current health profession to enter medicine instead. In fact, I have heard that a popular interview question is, why doctor (instead of nurse, pharmacist, or even teacher)?
I think if you already work with doctors, it might even be easier to know why you want to be one.

 

[bob13]

I hope that is the reason. I know why i want to be an MD. I have plenty of reason to get out of pharmacy. I want to see patients, counsel them, and help them cope with a disease. I hate just looking over their meds and trying to guess what's going on. I want to call the shoots and be responsible my actions, not just follow orders?..I want to do more clinical research, not just research how many patients I can change from IV levaquin to PO?. my grade are on the low end, but my drive and attitude are ideal for practiceing medicine...

 

[efex101]

Well although drive and attitude is a lot do not get me wrong you WILL need the grades to also back that up. Now that does not mean that folks with so so gpa do not get in but they have recent good grades to prove that they can do it. So make sure that you get some recent coursework under your belt with excellent grades.