Physics Requirement Question

[MapleMan44]

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Hello everyone!
I’m in a weird situation regarding my physics requirements, and I was wondering if anyone has had similar experiences: I understand that most US med schools require 2 gen physics courses with 2 labs. My school offers labs separately and I have:
1 gen physics course on energy, waves and force,
2 gen physics labs (seperate)
and here’s the weird part: for my second physics course I have astrophysics. Does anyone know if med schools usually consider this towards their requirements or do I need to specifically take another gen physics course?



Thanks!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

What does your prehealth office say?

 

[MapleMan44]

What does your prehealth office say?

I’m doing my undergrad in Canada, there’s not really a “pre health office” here unfortunately

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Have your talked to the medical schools closest to you in Canada? Has anyone who graduated from your school attended medical school? Clearly there is an answer. (I suspect astrophysics will not meet the requirements.)

 

[polymerization]

US medical schools are not known for their flexibility. Even if there was a shot in the dark that some schools would accept it (and, to be fair, the AMCAS Course Classification Guide would have astrophysics count as a BCPM course, for what it's worth), it would pay you dividends in mental peace to just take what they're asking you to take.

Ultimately you would not be doing yourself any favors missing out on that content anyway, because it's tested on the MCAT, so you will learn it anyway, might as well get some credit for that and unambiguously fulfill the requirement.

I'm always bewildered to see questions like this because this is such a long, uncertain, high-stakes sort of path that even if I could get away with it in theory, the panopticon that is the admissions process (and its actors) itself makes the price of "creativity" around requirements far too steep for any applicant.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Things are different in Canada where "general education requirements" don't exist in the same way. However, the Canadian medical schools are still collegial with AAMC and take the MCAT as a gateway entrance exam. Even if prehealth advising isn't supported in the same way in Canada, the MCAT and admissions requirements among Canadian schools (AFMC) should have informed the faculty at their undergraduate institutions.

https://www.cma.ca/healthcare-for-real/how-do-you-get-medical-school-canada

AFMC Admission Requirements of Canadian Faculties of Medicine - AFMC

www.afmc.ca