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As I get deeper into my medical education, I’m realizing that the entire pre-med journey and selection process for medical school is highly irrelevant to preparing students for medical school. Often, “pre-med” becomes a check- off-the-box kind of process that includes things that don’t help students really get a preliminary feel for medicine.
Let’s face it. My bio degree, lab work, MCAT verbal and physical science scores, recommendations from people who know nothing about medicine recommending me for medicine, and countless hours spending time on “extracurriculars” didn’t do much in the way of closing the gap between me and the medical world. What do you all think? I was thinking it would be much more useful to have a pre-med do a customized "rotation" tailored to them. But I know it wouldn’t be easy to get much from it with no foundation.
Interested in input from all levels. What would you change as requirements? Or you think it’s perfect the way it is?
P.S. I kinda wish I could hear what Dermviser would say haha…
Let’s face it. My bio degree, lab work, MCAT verbal and physical science scores, recommendations from people who know nothing about medicine recommending me for medicine, and countless hours spending time on “extracurriculars” didn’t do much in the way of closing the gap between me and the medical world. What do you all think? I was thinking it would be much more useful to have a pre-med do a customized "rotation" tailored to them. But I know it wouldn’t be easy to get much from it with no foundation.
Interested in input from all levels. What would you change as requirements? Or you think it’s perfect the way it is?
P.S. I kinda wish I could hear what Dermviser would say haha…
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