Quick Question (Allied health courses)

[SM8806]

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Hey all, how are we doing?

I have a question regarding allied health (HSC, etc.) courses. When I started college as a freshman I was dead-set on a DPT, but around my senior year I settled on medical school.

At my school the pre-PT and pre-OT students take a non-biology course in physiology (it's called physio for clinical sciences) and also human gross anatomy (with a cadaver lab). This is instead of the usual two semester anatomy and physiology biology course.

So my question is whether or not most medical schools would accept these courses, or do I need to take the "true" anatomy and physiology? I was hoping to apply for Fall 2011 but if I need to take these courses it would delay my application another year.

Thanks!

 

[Tin Man]

Hey all, how are we doing?

I have a question regarding allied health (HSC, etc.) courses. When I started college as a freshman I was dead-set on a DPT, but around my senior year I settled on medical school.

At my school the pre-PT and pre-OT students take a non-biology course in physiology (it's called physio for clinical sciences) and also human gross anatomy (with a cadaver lab). This is instead of the usual two semester anatomy and physiology biology course.

So my question is whether or not most medical schools would accept these courses, or do I need to take the "true" anatomy and physiology? I was hoping to apply for Fall 2011 but if I need to take these courses it would delay my application another year.

Thanks!

There is no universal pre-req for anatomy and physiology. Any such requirement is school-specific. The pre-reqs are molecular biology and organismal biology, which is much broader than just physiology.

If a school requires an anatomy and physiology course, you would need to check with that school individually to see if your class fills the requirement. I'm not sure how a physiology course can be "non-biology", but most people take the physiology courses to help prepare them for the MCAT, not because it's necessarily required.

 

[SM8806]

Thanks!

Also, of course physiology is biology, but the course I took was not taught by the biology department. It was taught by the Health Sciences department, which specializes in pre-PT, pre-OT, and pre-PA. It's still in the College of Sciences.