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What was your undergraduate degree in? Do you feel that a science background such as majoring in biology or chemistry is crucial to succeeding in med school?

Biology in undergrad. Made the basic sciences portion of med school more of a review.

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What's your opinion of the medical schools in the Caribbean? Would residency options be severely limited for an American attending one of those?

Like others have said, it makes matching into competitive residency programs exceedingly difficult and they are expensive as hell. The Caribbean grabs I know all have at least double the amount of debt as most US grads. The expense coupled with the high likelihood of being restricted to primary care fields make it less than appealing in my eyes.

My advice is work your arse off to strengthen your application and get into a US school. It may even take a few years post-undergrad and a few application cycles to get in, but if you really want to be a doctor it should be worth it.

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Posted by Blob Fish

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Posted on 4/16/18 at 10:00 am to Eightballjacket

Biological sciences major with a minor in business administration.

If you are in the LSU system, majoring in biology/chemistry will set you up nicely for the first year of medical school. I’m sure it’s like that elsewhere, too. Throw in some anatomy (like I did), and you’ll be way more prepared than most.

Caribbean schools, from my understanding, are a lot like law schools. They will gladly take your money (and it’s quite expensive), but they aren’t all that concerned about your investment landing you a job later. You had better graduate near the top of your class and rock the USMLE.

Medicine, for better or for worse, is also a business. So, I minored in it.

ETA: Be sure to take statistics and learn it well. Unfortunately, that shite will follow you through medical school, residency, and even into practice.

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Posted by Restomod

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Posted on 4/16/18 at 10:28 am to celltech1981

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most of the nurses I know are bitter about being nurses and they made calculated efforts to be nurses.

You just described women that happened to be nurses.

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Posted by baldona

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Posted on 4/16/18 at 10:37 am to Jim Rockford

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Nurses should be people who want to be nurses, not bitter med school rejects.

Disagree completely. There's all kinds of nurses for one. Sure if you want to be a direct care nurse, absolutely.

But you can get your undergraduate degree in nursing and go into all sorts of things. If you get your undergraduate degree in pre-med and don't get into medical school, where do you go?

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Posted by celltech1981

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Posted on 4/16/18 at 10:39 am to Restomod