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Hi, I am a physical therapist working for 7 years now and I have this feeling inside of me that I need to change career and pursue my dream of being a doctor. I don't feel PT is cutting it for me, it's not what I want to do as a career in life anymore.
Anyway, I've been lurking into med school websites for the past years here and there but didn't really have the time to do a full research. I just literally started looking them up more in depth now and the requirements needed, seems like the required subjects are about the same for most schools; Biology: 1 year w/lab, Gen chem: 1 yr w/lab, Org chem: 1st sem w/lab, Biochem: 2nd sem, Physics: 1 yr w/lab, Math maybe statistics: 1 sem, English and/or humanities: 1 sem. I know I need to retake the required classes since it's been 7 years since I took them for PT school. Also, I took my PT school in a foreign country so I'm not sure how things will fall out with GPA/transcripts I need to send and what not. I am planning to check out my community college this week and see if I can start taking humanities, statistics, or english classes to begin with and find my way to a university to take the science classes. Or maybe I should stick to CC for now?
I am planning to take the MCAT early next year (Jan-Mar) to see how I will do and have time to retake if needed (hopefully not) and I want to start my AMCAS application in 2018 so I can begin med school by fall 2019. I'm not sure if this plan sounds about right time wise, but I really want to get this journey started. It's already August and most universities I'm looking at has ended their fall registration. I don't want to do a formal post bacc pre med program for financial reasons, I have a family -looking into getting married next year and buying a house soon. I also want to keep working full time until it's time for med school.
Anyway, I've been lurking into med school websites for the past years here and there but didn't really have the time to do a full research. I just literally started looking them up more in depth now and the requirements needed, seems like the required subjects are about the same for most schools; Biology: 1 year w/lab, Gen chem: 1 yr w/lab, Org chem: 1st sem w/lab, Biochem: 2nd sem, Physics: 1 yr w/lab, Math maybe statistics: 1 sem, English and/or humanities: 1 sem. I know I need to retake the required classes since it's been 7 years since I took them for PT school. Also, I took my PT school in a foreign country so I'm not sure how things will fall out with GPA/transcripts I need to send and what not. I am planning to check out my community college this week and see if I can start taking humanities, statistics, or english classes to begin with and find my way to a university to take the science classes. Or maybe I should stick to CC for now?
I am planning to take the MCAT early next year (Jan-Mar) to see how I will do and have time to retake if needed (hopefully not) and I want to start my AMCAS application in 2018 so I can begin med school by fall 2019. I'm not sure if this plan sounds about right time wise, but I really want to get this journey started. It's already August and most universities I'm looking at has ended their fall registration. I don't want to do a formal post bacc pre med program for financial reasons, I have a family -looking into getting married next year and buying a house soon. I also want to keep working full time until it's time for med school.
