Psychopharmacology Lab Course = BCPM?

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Hi guys, looking for some opinions/prior experiences: Would a Psychopharmacology Lab course count under BCPM? It is in the psychology department but a class for biopsychology majors.

This is the description on the syllabus "This laboratory course provides direct, pre-clinical experience with experimental strategies and methods in psychopharmacology, using animal subjects. Students will investigate how drugs affect various behavior patterns and how behavioral processes can be elucidated using drugs as research tools. Topics may include experimental procedures demonstrating the effects of drugs on motor and sensory process, behavioral measures of memory, anxiety, depression and psychosis, and the self-administration of drugs by animals. Using the mastery teaching method, students will recreate classic experiments and ready themselves for independent research in psychopharmacology."

I am deciding if I should take this course for hopes that it will fit into BCPM. Thanks!
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takeabow said:
Hi guys, looking for some opinions/prior experiences: Would a Psychopharmacology Lab course count under BCPM? It is in the psychology department but a class for biopsychology majors.

This is the description on the syllabus "This laboratory course provides direct, pre-clinical experience with experimental strategies and methods in psychopharmacology, using animal subjects. Students will investigate how drugs affect various behavior patterns and how behavioral processes can be elucidated using drugs as research tools. Topics may include experimental procedures demonstrating the effects of drugs on motor and sensory process, behavioral measures of memory, anxiety, depression and psychosis, and the self-administration of drugs by animals. Using the mastery teaching method, students will recreate classic experiments and ready themselves for independent research in psychopharmacology."

I am deciding if I should take this course for hopes that it will fit into BCPM. Thanks!
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Psychology is not BCPM.
 
Yes I know, but it has biology content. If a physiological psychology course can count as BCPM why can't this?
 
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takeabow said:
Yes I know, but it has biology content. If a physiological psychology course can count as BCPM why can't this?
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Contact your adviser there could possibly an exception since pharmacology is covered. Or better yet, contact AMCAS or in my case I contacted TMDSAS when asking about certain courses, they can see certain approved courses others can't.
 
takeabow said:
Yes I know, but it has biology content. If a physiological psychology course can count as BCPM why can't this?
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Because it's psych.

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MedPR said:
Because it's psych.

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there are always exceptions...I've had non BCPM courses approved due to the simple fact it had biological content. OP don't listen to this guy. Contact an adviser or the alike
 
OP, try to put it in BCPM if you can. The absolute worst that can happen is they put it back as a health science or whatever.

I don't get why whenever people make these threads people post "OMG NO DON'T PUT THIS IN BCPM, BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN." Might as well try it, right?
 
torshi said:
there are always exceptions...I've had non BCPM courses approved due to the simple fact it had biological content. OP don't listen to this guy. Contact an adviser or the alike
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I guess I should've had anthropology put on BCPM since there is biology in it. Damn.
 
I had a journal club class that was molecular biology/virology papers, but was under the public health department since my PI was under that department. The class title was a public health grad class. I listed it as BCPM and they didn't change - I'd definitely at least try to list your class as BCPM and they may or may not change it.
 
MedPR said:
I guess I should've had anthropology put on BCPM since there is biology in it. Damn.
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Too bad they didn't approve it for you...........Just be the type of person who all they hear is yes or no and carry on. Good luck to you
 
torshi said:
Too bad they didn't approve it for you...........Just be the type of person who all they hear is yes or no and carry on. Good luck to you
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I didn't try to get it approved. I'm the kind of person who doesn't go out of my way to beat the system.
 
If you believe and have proof (course syllabus or description on registrar) that it should be considered a BCPM course, you can appeal it if they end up changing it.
 
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Psych stats counted fine for me - no appealing or anything, it just counted. Just list it, as long as your app is in with time to spare
 
MedPR said:
I guess I should've had anthropology put on BCPM since there is biology in it. Damn.
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If it was evolutionary or physical anthropology then yes...

Anyway, my school's psychopharm course covers mechanisms of drug action and is pure neurophysiology. I'd be hard bent to say it's not science gpa.
 
I had several psych classes count toward my science gpa on amcas. Neuroscience courses at my school were in the psych department. My advisor specified which courses the school would consider biology, and I listed them as such on amcas. AMCAS did not change it. It's not "beating the system." Those classes were bio-intensive and more challenging than many offered in the bio dept. Check with your advisor
 
El Gaucho said:
I had several psych classes count toward my science gpa on amcas. Neuroscience courses at my school were in the psych department. My advisor specified which courses the school would consider biology, and I listed them as such on amcas. AMCAS did not change it. It's not "beating the system." Those classes were bio-intensive and more challenging than many offered in the bio dept. Check with your advisor
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truth...a couple of the upper level psychology classes at my school(neuro and pharm) are cross listed as bio/psych for students who are doing a bio minor as psych majors or psych minors as bio majors.....Pharmacology/neuro are quite a lot of anatomy / pathway related, so I wouldn't be surprised if you were able to make it count for BCPM.

and as far as "taking the easy way out". pharmacology was very challenging!
 
When I applied, I listed psychopharmacology (without a lab) as psychology thinking it probabably all boiled down to the major, but when my application was verified it had been changed to a BCPM course and counted towards my science GPA. Since you are trying to decide whether or not to take the class to begin with I can't say I wouldn't bank on this,, but maybe this info will help you.
 
I put SEVERAL pharmacology courses under BCPM and ALL of them counted for BCPM.
 
MedPR said:
I didn't try to get it approved. I'm the kind of person who doesn't go out of my way to beat the system.
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hahahhaha Jesus....It's not about beating a system, you sir are confused and lack rational concern... :laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
futureczar said:
I put SEVERAL pharmacology courses under BCPM and ALL of them counted for BCPM.
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Do you live in Texas? I believe TMDSAS includes pharmacology courses in its science GPA, but AMCAS does not. If not, I'm very surprised they counted for you. What type of pharm courses were they?
 
You guys can't read can you? It's based on COURSE CONTENT. If the content fits within one of the BCPM categories, then it'll count. It does not matter about the course classification your university gives it. Like I stated before, if you think it fits into one of those categories, then do it. No harm can be done anyways.
 
CityLights said:
Do you live in Texas? I believe TMDSAS includes pharmacology courses in its science GPA, but AMCAS does not. If not, I'm very surprised they counted for you. What type of pharm courses were they?
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Nope, this was for AMCAS. They were intro to pharmacology courses. I also have several friends who applied to medical school after pharmacy school, and their pharmacology courses also counted as BCPM (even though both pharmacy and pharmacology are both listed as non-bcpm).
 
AMCAS changed my neuroanatomy class to BCPM, even though it was offered by the psych department.

It's probably way easier to just call AAMC.
 
futureczar said:
Nope, this was for AMCAS. They were intro to pharmacology courses. I also have several friends who applied to medical school after pharmacy school, and their pharmacology courses also counted as BCPM (even though both pharmacy and pharmacology are both listed as non-bcpm).
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Nursing or Health Professions Pharmacology probably wouldn't count because it is probably driven by memorization rather than understanding mechanisms of drug action or etc.
 
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