Undergraduate majors?

[musicalmedicine]

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Hey guys and girls, I know most of you are either biology majors or chemistry majors but are any of you doing a subspecialty in these degrees? Lets get this started now...I'm a genetics major. What about you?

 

[SDN2013]

Nursing

 

[MedYEP]

I was a Psychology and Biology double major with a Cognitive Neuroscience concentration in both majors.

 

[ButImLETired]

Neuroscience and Italian Literature

 

[musicalmedicine]

I was a Psychology and Biology double major with a Cognitive Neuroscience concentration in both majors.

That is really cool. I have always loved psychology. My abnormal psychology instructor did something similar, but it was more than thirty years ago so I'm sure your degrees are much more extensive.

 

[T12]

That is really cool. I have always loved psychology. My abnormal psychology instructor did something similar, but it was more than thirty years ago so I'm sure your degrees are much more extensive.

Does this mean your Psychology professor was abnormal?

Ok, OK, I know...just a joke.

....come to think of it, aren't all Psychology professors inherently abnormal Psychology professors?

 

[musicalmedicine]

Does this mean your Psychology professor was abnormal?

Ok, OK, I know...just a joke.

....come to think of it, aren't all Psychology professors inherently abnormal Psychology professors?

Its possible. I was referring to my psychology class that focuses on abnormal activity and psychological disorders rather than in PSY 101 where you get a glimpse at most aspects of psychology and a ton of history.

 

[T12]

Its possible. I was referring to my psychology class that focuses on abnormal activity and psychological disorders rather than in PSY 101 where you get a glimpse at most aspects of psychology and a ton of history.

Yeah....I gotchya.

 

[musicalmedicine]

T12, you've got some great stats. How was/is being a transport at a hospital? I'm most likely going to be applying at hospitals next summer for either that position or an orderly.

 

[T12]

You're stoic, dude.

Anyway, thanks for the compliment, very much appreciated.

Being a transporter is kind of what you make of it. I've seen and helped out in more types of procedures than I can remember (*liability goes out the door when its 2 am and a floor is understaffed). In this regard, I prefer transporting because you are able to do some of the things techs do without having to devote a year and a half to a training program. On the other hand, most of the work is repetitive, but not necessarily boring because you're able to speak with every patient. I've found that most of the patients I meet are looking for someone to listen to them. The nurses, doctors, and aides are often too busy to converse with them casually, so I make myself open to them while moving. These conversations, in turn, provide me with more prospective into my own ambitions.

And it's clinical experience. You lift patients, help them walk, hold their foleys, etc. Sure, your only real job is to get them from A to B, but you're able to do and learn much more than what you get paid to do. So its kind of like volunteering with WAY more freedom. Plus you get to write that rent check.😉

Sorry for hijacking the thread, guys. I'm done.

 

[musicalmedicine]

You're stoic, dude.

Anyway, thanks for the compliment, very much appreciated.

Being a transporter is kind of what you make of it. I've seen and helped out in more types of procedures than I can remember (*liability goes out the door when its 2 am and a floor is understaffed). In this regard, I prefer transporting because you are able to do some of the things techs do without having to devote a year and a half to a training program. On the other hand, most of the work is repetitive, but not necessarily boring because you're able to speak with every patient. I've found that most of the patients I meet are looking for someone to listen to them. The nurses, doctors, and aides are often too busy to converse with them casually, so I make myself open to them while moving. These conversations, in turn, provide me with more prospective into my own ambitions.

And it's clinical experience. You lift patients, help them walk, hold their foleys, etc. Sure, your only real job is to get them from A to B, but you're able to do and learn much more than what you get paid to do. So its kind of like volunteering with WAY more freedom. Plus you get to write that rent check.😉

Sorry for hijacking the thread, guys. I'm done.

Well that sounds great, but lucky for me that money won't be for rent 🙂...it will probably be for gas in my gas guzzler 🙁 anways, that sounds like a pretty good job. I'll have to look into it more. Thanks for the info T12.

P.S. I can't say that I've been called stoic before, maybe its just the impersonal aspect of forums either way I'll take it as a compliment in this case; thanks T12 you're a true forum friend.

 

[VivaLaVida]

I'm still kind of jumping around, but I'm thinking Sociology with a French Minor. My interests are broad.

 

[akszp4]

Biology major w/ a emphasis in Biotech

 

[w0lf137]

Biology. If I could go back and pick again, I would pick business. I like how they have to give presentations, dress up, and pretend that they will be making millions straight out of college. (I'm not saying all business majors are like that) I would still be premed though.

 

[AlanAlanine]

immunology

 

[RySerr21]

Hey guys and girls, I know most of you are either biology majors or chemistry majors but are any of you doing a subspecialty in these degrees? Lets get this started now...I'm a genetics major. What about you?

as is evdient from the responses, theres a lot of variation in majors and not necessraily all or most are biology/chemistry

but does anybody have an actual percentage of applicants with bio or chem majors? just kinda curious.

 

[guyski79]

.

 

[Ibn Rushd]

Microbiology and Immunology with an Immunology emphasis

 

[airplanes]

you love starting new threads! I'm in bio, double majoring in the international studies double degree program at my school.

 

[jtimmer1]

Biology major, Chemistry minor, maybe minor in either Spanish or philosophy.

Cant really decide.

 

[chad5871]

Forensic science (with a concentration in forensic biology and minors in chemistry and biology).

 

[footballrules]

You're stoic, dude.

Anyway, thanks for the compliment, very much appreciated.

Being a transporter is kind of what you make of it. I've seen and helped out in more types of procedures than I can remember (*liability goes out the door when its 2 am and a floor is understaffed). In this regard, I prefer transporting because you are able to do some of the things techs do without having to devote a year and a half to a training program. On the other hand, most of the work is repetitive, but not necessarily boring because you're able to speak with every patient. I've found that most of the patients I meet are looking for someone to listen to them. The nurses, doctors, and aides are often too busy to converse with them casually, so I make myself open to them while moving. These conversations, in turn, provide me with more prospective into my own ambitions.

And it's clinical experience. You lift patients, help them walk, hold their foleys, etc. Sure, your only real job is to get them from A to B, but you're able to do and learn much more than what you get paid to do. So its kind of like volunteering with WAY more freedom. Plus you get to write that rent check.😉

Sorry for hijacking the thread, guys. I'm done.

I worked fro three and a half years as a patient transporter.

When you are speaking with the patient, I sure hope you are not talking about what condition they have unless they mention it first.

It isn't really clinical experience, but it does give you a good feel for medical terminology, procedures, how the healthcare system works (at the face level, but not at the deeper level), what role each person plays in the care of a patient, so forth and so forth.

I used my experience as a patient transporter to get my job as a clinical research coordinator.

 

[footballrules]

You all can major in what you want. It really doesn't matter. What you do outside of your classroom is what will get you a job after graduation if you don't get into medical school. If all you do is take classes and work at the local coffee shop, good luck getting a job after graduation if you don't get into medical school. Thus, work at gaining some real life skills during the summer and during the school year. If you want to work in a clinic, try to get some sort of certification as it is hard to get a job outside of research with a biology, chemistry, biochemistry, immunology, neuroscience degree.

 

[musicalmedicine]

you love starting new threads! I'm in bio, double majoring in the international studies double degree program at my school.

hahaha, yeah lately I like starting new threads. What do you mean by international studies?

 

[175961]

microbiology with spanish minor

 

[airplanes]

hahaha, yeah lately I like starting new threads. What do you mean by international studies?

We have a double degree program at my school where in addition to your regular major, you can get a BA in International Studies in your particular major as long as you:

1) demonstrate 4th year proficiency in a foreign language (Spanish for me)
2) spend at least 10 weeks studying abroad or interning in a country that speaks your foreign language
3) write a 30 page thesis that has to do with your major and something internationally
4) take 5 or 6 extra core classes.
Pretty neat since the first two I was already planning on getting done, and the last two are relatively easy for someone who gets another degree! 😀

 

[175961]

We have a double degree program at my school where in addition to your regular major, you can get a BA in International Studies in your particular major as long as you:

1) demonstrate 4th year proficiency in a foreign language (Spanish for me)
2) spend at least 10 weeks studying abroad or interning in a country that speaks your foreign language
3) write a 30 page thesis that has to do with your major and something internationally
4) take 5 or 6 extra core classes.
Pretty neat since the first two I was already planning on getting done, and the last two are relatively easy for someone who gets another degree! 😀

That sounds awesome. If you already speak a language that seems like an easy way to get another degree

 

[coldweatherblue]

I majored in music: guitar when I was in undergrad. it was awesome.

 

[DrCio]

Math

 

[MiraCheskis]

Psychology (BS) with Honors.

And a minor in Chemistry. (Hey...I'll have all the classwork done anyways, might as well get something for 'em! 😉)

 

[musicalmedicine]

I majored in music: guitar when I was in undergrad. it was awesome.

I was going to double major in Jazz performance and genetics but I chose to focus more in genetics, work and ec's. I'm still thinking about doing a minor in music performance.

 

[Fashion2088]

im a dance major...its quite fun...i did it all through highschool so i just stuck with it for the college run... I do work in healthcare as well... research assistant part time and patient representive in an emergancy room...my hospital is a teaching hospital so it makes it easy to grab research positions part time where u can work on your topic whenever u want... get publications and even get paid! so im an arts major with a medical twist lol...

 

[hants]

behavioral science/double in psych

 

[T12]

I worked fro three and a half years as a patient transporter.

When you are speaking with the patient, I sure hope you are not talking about what condition they have unless they mention it first.

It isn't really clinical experience, but it does give you a good feel for medical terminology, procedures, how the healthcare system works (at the face level, but not at the deeper level), what role each person plays in the care of a patient, so forth and so forth.

I used my experience as a patient transporter to get my job as a clinical research coordinator.

I'm not debriefing them, I'm talking to them.
If they want to talk about football, we talk football; if they want to talk colon cancer, we talk colon cancer.

I would argue that if this physical and verbal interaction doesn't constitute clinical experience, then there really isn't much clinical experience to be had by a pre-med student lacking a degree of some sort qualifying him/her to actually treat patients.

Certainly volunteering or shadowing wouldn't be "clinical experience" then...ah hell, this debate has been talked through and through

Let's ask Lizzy...

Oh yeah: Chemistry w/ Math minor.

 

[Livingapparatus]

Bioengineering and biochem minor

 

[HurricaneKatt]

Biology major w/ a emphasis in Biotech

Your avatar is mesmerizing... lol

 

[footballrules]

I'm not debriefing them, I'm talking to them.
If they want to talk about football, we talk football; if they want to talk colon cancer, we talk colon cancer.

I would argue that if this physical and verbal interaction doesn't constitute clinical experience, then there really isn't much clinical experience to be had by a pre-med student lacking a degree of some sort qualifying him/her to actually treat patients.

Certainly volunteering or shadowing wouldn't be "clinical experience" then...ah hell, this debate has been talked through and through

Let's ask Lizzy...

Oh yeah: Chemistry w/ Math minor.

It does get your fee wet in a clinic/hospital setting. So that is a good thing for a pre-med. You can count it as clinical experience if you want, I did for my job interviews. What I was getting at as for a patient transporter not really being "clinical experience" is that you don't have some sort of certification. That is what I was getting at.

Have a good time at your job and school.

 

[akszp4]

Your avatar is mesmerizing... lol

haha, thanks.

 

[footballrules]

haha, thanks.

When I first looked at your avatar, it looked like a bunch of ants moving around. Not complicated at all.

 

[akszp4]

When I first looked at your avatar, it looked like a bunch of ants moving around. Not complicated at all.

It looked like ants to me when I looked @ it the first time too, it reminds me of a computer game i used to play when i was younger, so i like it.

 

[littlealex]

I majored in underwater basket-weaving at Cornell.

Subspecialize that, beatch.

What's the purpose of comparing majors?
And once you get into med school, the molecular biologists probably took the most number of relevant classes.

 

[footballrules]

I majored in underwater basket-weaving at Cornell.

Subspecialize that, beatch.

What's the purpose of comparing majors?
And once you get into med school, the molecular biologists probably took the most number of relevant classes.

Its basically a thread looking for attention and to be a time waster. All of these various degrees really don't mean squat once you get into medical school. Good for all you chem degree people who took an extra chemistry class. Do you honestly think that extra chemistry class is going to make you a better doctor? Good for you neuroscience majors for taking an extra neurology course. Do you really think that extra neurology class is going to make you a better doctor when it is isn't even medically focused? Good for you biology majors who had to take zoology. Like zoology has anything to do with medicine. Good for all of you microbiology majors. Like that extra micro course is going to make you a better doctor. I can go on and on, but I will stop.

In all, it doesn't matter what science degree you get when you finally get admitted into medical school. Everyone starts from scratch and everyone has the same standorized information to learn.

 

[175961]

I majored in underwater basket-weaving at Cornell.

Subspecialize that, beatch.

What's the purpose of comparing majors?
And once you get into med school, the molecular biologists probably took the most number of relevant classes.

Its basically a thread looking for attention and to be a time waster. All of these various degrees really don't mean squat once you get into medical school. Good for all you chem degree people who took an extra chemistry class. Do you honestly think that extra chemistry class is going to make you a better doctor? Good for you neuroscience majors for taking an extra neurology course. Do you really think that extra neurology class is going to make you a better doctor when it is isn't even medically focused? Good for you biology majors who had to take zoology. Like zoology has anything to do with medicine. Good for all of you microbiology majors. Like that extra micro course is going to make you a better doctor. I can go on and on, but I will stop.

In all, it doesn't matter what science degree you get when you finally get admitted into medical school. Everyone starts from scratch and everyone has the same standorized information to learn.

well who pissed in your corn flakes???

maybe a certain person majors in a certain science degree because of a certain interest??? people are generally stupid, yes.....but that doenst mean everyone thinks they will be a doctor before getting into med school because of their undergrad degree

 

[footballrules]

well who pissed in your corn flakes???

maybe a certain person majors in a certain science degree because of a certain interest??? people are generally stupid, yes.....but that doenst mean everyone thinks they will be a doctor before getting into med school because of their undergrad degree

Clam down. Take a deep breath. Just so you know, I got a degree in biology because I wanted to get a certain type of job after college. I'm refering to the people who think certain degrees are better than others and stuff like that. Trust me, there have been debates on SDN about what degree is harder, better, prepares you better for medical school and so forth.

 

[phonyreal98]

I'm undecided, but I'm thinking of double majoring and psychology and biology with a music minor (trombone).

 

[175961]

Clam down. Take a deep breath. Just so you know, I got a degree in biology because I wanted to get a certain type of job after college. I'm refering to the people who think certain degrees are better than others and stuff like that. Trust me, there have been debates on SDN about what degree is harder, better, prepares you better for medical school and so forth.

no man, listen to me, you are wrong....wait. I dont have time to argue. I have to study for my step 1 exam, its part of this new degree my school is offering "become a doctor before becoming a doctor." I figured it would help me, you know, "stand out" from the rest of the applicants out there.





sorry, I think I misinterpreted what you were saying up there..... I agree with you 100%

 

[littlealex]

Yeah Cuadrado. I'm not saying I hate all premeds or people who major in specialized majors. I just really dislike comparison threads like this, filled with insecure premeds trying to compare and prove that they are better than others.
These kids go on to have major superiority or inferiority complexes and will just piss you off when one of them unfortunately becomes a classmate.

 

[footballrules]

Yeah Cuadrado. I'm not saying I hate all premeds or people who major in specialized majors. I just really dislike comparison threads like this, filled with insecure premeds trying to compare and prove that they are better than others.
These kids go on to have major superiority or inferiority complexes and will just piss you off when one of them unfortunately becomes a classmate.

What some people don't understand is that a minor in this, and that, and this, and that is mostly due to a college letting them do it because they want their money. Its ok to have a major in biology with a minor in psychology, but not a major in biology with a minor in art and psychology. The path a person wants to take is more important than a major. After time, those few letters on your resume that say what you got a degree in lose value as you progress in your career.

If I was a hiring manager and I noticed a person with a degree in biology, a minor in spanish and art, I would wonder what this person is doing and most likley not ask the person to come in for an interview.

I also don't understand colleges that lets a person get a degree in molecular biology, biochemistry and cell biology? That doesn't make sense to an employer.

 

[2Fic]

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (I am still undergrad)...considering a minor in History, Philosphy, and Sociology of Science.

 

[airplanes]

If I was a hiring manager and I noticed a person with a degree in biology, a minor in spanish and art, I would wonder what this person is doing and most likley not ask the person to come in for an interview.

Really? to me it would seem like they have broad interests and can excel in different fields. Its easier to just get the bio degree than to tack on completely unrelated minors like spanish and art.

I also don't understand colleges that lets a person get a degree in molecular biology, biochemistry and cell biology? That doesn't make sense to an employer.

I understand your point here, although I didn't know there were schools out there that actually allowed something like that.