Please introduce the pre-medical courses in American universities from the following aspects.

It sounds like you have a wonderful dream of entering American medical school. But at the same time, I seem completely at a loss about American medical education.

The medical education system in the United States was formed after the publication of the Flexner Report in 19 10. Only Canada followed suit, which is completely different from the whole world. There is 133 medical college in America. You can apply only after graduating from college for four years (very few schools can also study in college for three years), and it doesn't matter what your major is. After graduating from medical school for four years, you can start your internship and divide your subjects into different subjects. Among them, about 20 universities offer BA/MD options for high school students to apply directly. Of course, the advantage is that students can reduce the pressure of applying for medical school and concentrate more on their studies. The better BA/MD is 4+4 (such as Les+Baylor, UCSD, Brown, USC) and 3+4 (such as Boston University and Northwestern University). There is also a Northeast Ohio University with a very low evaluation, which is actually 2+4. If we compare the difficulty of undergraduate application, the best BA/MD (Les/Baylor, UCSD, Northwest, Brown) is similar to HYPSM, and the intermediate BA/MD (such as USC, BU, Drexel) is similar to Cornell and Duke. Weaker ones are similar to Berkeley, UCLA and the University of Michigan. If you have problems getting into a prestigious school, you won't have a chance to apply for BA/MD.

The word premedid is just a general term, which refers to both people and things. Refers to people who want to apply for medical school or related courses or activities. There is no department in any university, and the word can't be seen in official documents. Generally, the traditional pre-medical course refers to college students. However, some people (such as humanities engineering department) will study for one year after graduation if their college grades are not enough or their majors are not helpful to MCAT. It's a nice name, but it's actually not a degree, but a cram school specially designed for students to apply for medical college, which is also considered pre-medical. Some students study for a master's degree (sometimes a doctor's degree) before applying, which can also be called pre-medical. Some people do things for several years, and then decide to apply after getting married and having children. In this process, they can also be called premedical. These zeros and zeros always add up to non-traditional preparatory courses.

The standard test required by medical college is MCAT, and other tests, including TOEFL, are useless. The main subjects of MCAT are biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, physics and English. Most English is related to science. Sentence making is a test of understanding and analysis, not grammar. Therefore, it is common sense that a university with a major in biology or chemistry may at least take advantage of the exam. This is also the main reason why most medical students (over 2/3) graduated from these two related departments. However, there are the largest number of such students and the competition is more intense. Of course, there are many outstanding performers, but there are more people with average level. On the other hand, if graduates from other departments dare to apply for medical school, it is definitely martial arts. Think about it. The two students have the same GPA, the same MCAT scores and similar extracurricular activities. One university majored in cell biology, and the other one majored in English classical literature. Which is more comprehensive and excellent in the eyes of admissions officers? In martial arts novels, it is often said that ordinary martial artists should not provoke Confucianism, Taoism and monks and nuns, that is to say, these people generally do not walk the rivers and lakes. Once the rivers and lakes appear, it shows that these people are absolutely stunted, and it is also a truth that artists are bold.

The so-called pre-medical school is good or bad, which refers to the success rate of the school applying for medical school. The higher the success rate, the better. At first glance, it makes sense to take it as the basis of good or bad, but there are hidden things behind many beautiful numbers, which are not necessarily facts. Of course, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and other famous medical schools have the highest successful admission rate, but several pre-medical schools, such as Johns Hopkins, Duke, Cornell, Washington University and St. Louis, are generally not as good as HYPSM, but the success rate of medical school applications is comparable. One of the key points is that these schools have their own medical schools, with their own people as the mainstay. This is understandable, but at the same time, these schools will first eliminate students whose grades are not up to a certain level, and they will not be allowed to participate in pre-medical counseling at all. The schools will devote all their energy to counseling elite students. The eliminated students are all left to fend for themselves, which is not included in the statistics at all. Of course, you can hand in a beautiful report card, and don't be confused by simple figures. And the average student in a good school is not as good as the top student in an ordinary school. The reputation of the school can increase the chances of admission, even if there is, there is no need to be persistent.

There is a set of statistics that can clearly explain the success rate of Premed. More than 65,438+0,200 ~ 65,438+0,500 freshmen at UCLA usually call themselves pre-med. One-third will disappear immediately after reading biology and chemistry in freshman year, and one-third will disappear after reading organic chemistry in sophomore year. Along the way, maybe only 400 people still have the courage and conditions to apply for medical school. Fewer than 200 people could apply for admission to any school that year. Others have to make persistent efforts every other year. If they fail three times, there is no hope. The doctor's dream failed, plus countless money wasted, three golden years and incalculable mental expenses. UCLA is already a first-class public university in the United States, and other schools that are not as good as UCLA can infer.

The fierce competition in American medical schools is beyond the imagination of ordinary students. In addition to good grades in homework and exams, you also need letters of recommendation, scientific research, community service and hospital internship experience when applying. The quality of a large number of compositions at the time of application and the performance at the final interview are also extremely important. These two points are the biggest cover for students in China, but there are many people in Quanjude with GPA3.8/MCAT38 every year. Therefore, China students can finally enter the first-class medical schools in the United States, and they are absolutely superhuman. Since kindergarten, there have been talented students without any luck. Many premedical students dare not call themselves premedical students in the end. Because most newborn calves who want to be doctors don't know how difficult this road is, they keep their mouths shut and let their relatives and friends know that they intend to apply for medical school. But once you know that the possibility of failure far exceeds the possibility of success, you dare not mention it.

If you feel that you have all the excellent conditions and have the ability to work hard, but you have not obtained the right of abode or the United States (excluding Canada) at the time of application, then more than half of the doors to success have been closed, which is very unfavorable to your dream of being a doctor. There is no other reason-there are not enough people, and medical education in any country can't be designed for foreigners. There are not enough places for domestic students, and of course there are even fewer opportunities for foreigners.

If you are interested, you can go to Baidu to give my answer about American medical education. There are many statistics, including the selection of interns, which can see the whole picture more clearly. In addition, there is a world-famous medical college/pre-medical student website called StudentDoctorNetwork. It contains all the important information. You can even ask anonymously about your academic record, MCAT score, research and community service experience online. The answer can be referred to. After half a year's quiet observation on this website, you can clearly know all the secrets of applying for medical school and evaluate your chances of success. There is a biomedical area in the idiot forum. Although there are not many medical parts in it, they are almost all in Chinese, so maybe we can learn from them.

The number of medical schools in Canada is a fraction of that in the United States, the admission rate is half that in the United States, and the probability is even lower. If being a doctor is your lifelong dream, studying in the United States and China is the lowest choice for any Canadian student to succeed unless you can emigrate.