Everything You Need to Know About Being a Pre-Med
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Dr. Sahil Mehta, founder of MedSchoolCoach, describes the pre-med journey to students at the University of Texas at Austin. Learn what it takes to get into medical school, and how to optimize your chances at becoming a physician.
For more info, download the FREE guidebook, The Pre-Med Journey: What it Takes to Get into Medical School.
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One thing I absolutely HATE is when people say "of the 10 of you here, only 2 will make it". Terrible way to build confidence in students. I'm part of a very niche pre-med program in Canada and since our pathology prof said that, there's been intense competition and animosity in the program. Please stop stating the obvious. It's not helping anyone.
Worst thing is... it’s not completely true. Yeah, the stats are true... but the fact of the matter is that the majority of people in that particular room don’t represent that of the population the stat refers to. By going to a seminar like that, it reaffirms that the premed actually knows what they’re doing. Plus, it doesn’t even account for reapplicants and fair-weather premed.
The truth is, if you can make it to the application, you probably have a very good chance,
It's not even true though, the only thing that makes it true is that the teacher believes it so they only put work into 2 students.
Very curious to know about this niche pre med program. Not heard of it before..
Yeah since most of the people that enter pre-med are either forced by parents, entered cause other pol had the same interests, trying it out, and some of them actually had great passion up until they entered and wasn't able to handle it.
Only a small amount of people are persistent and passionate in what they want enough to suffer and power through all those things. This not only apply on pre-med, but also for other courses as well.
So many things come in play when you start going to college, since you question yourself if you really wanna do this type of thing forever.
But it does bring a fear to students especially for someone like me who is planning to apply for a pre-med course for college. But hey, whos stopping me. I literally cannot see myself in other career paths, EVEN IF I was told to be one of the most flexible students that can enter almost any course (from agriculture, law, to military, programming, mathematics and med school)
After having completed undergrad as a premed student and currently studying for my mcat I appreciate his emphasis on the amount it is going to take. While I was aware going in how long it would be, it did not hit me until about 4 years in. For whoever is watching this before starting school, pre-med is a series of highs and lows. One week you will ace an exam in biochem and the next week youre on the cusp of failing. What I wish someone had told me going into this was the toll on my mental health. Account for that at all times and prioritize it all costs. The road is long and can easily demoralize you at every turn. Stand strong with conviction. I only wish to help people, but the road is long, and I’m sure others want to as well. If you don’t end up getting to the end of the tunnel don’t let your heart harden. There are several different roads to helping people and making money. Continue on and live the life you were destined to. If you do make it in, good on you, utilize your privilege to be the best doctor you can be. We all have our own reasons and thought processes, at the end being content and spending a life worth living and being happy should be your ultimate goal.
-2 cents from an Arab Pre-med student
Best of luck to everyone
What was you’re major in undergrad? Do you believe that it helped with you’re courses and material you have at the moment?
I am thinking of being a pre med student in the USA although I would like to have some advices from you . Things I should consider . Also from my name you can know I am Arab like you 😊 . السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
if it's a calling, no one can stop you from it. no one.
This is helping me so much, especially with the fact that I am just starting this path. Thank you so much!
Great to know! We have a lot more info as well if you are just starting the pre-med path. Check out www.prospectivedoctor.com
@@Medschoolcoach xxoznppp of C ok
Great! Just another 12 years and you'll be through it!
Thank you I'm a premed student this very helpful ❤️😁😊👍😉
happy to help
I really appreciate this video. I’m currently in undergrad, and I plan to go on to study anesthesiology. I’m aiming to be a competitive med school applicant. This video helped to much!
i just got into college with a double degree. I needed this. Love it, it really motivates me and tells me what i need to do. Very helpful.
I am lucky enough to have 2 people In my family that went through this process and also interviewed people. They already started talking to me about things that would help me get into med school. It is scary to think about, but I know I can do it.
Mind Sharing some of that knowledge with a fellow pre med?
You have a lot going for you and that’s great you are educating others. I’m not a doctor (a speech pathologist) and you’re doing a great thing. Thank you!
Starting college next fall as a premed. And I have to say this was very informative.
biology major?
Same here!
Loved this! Thank you so much for your amazing resources
This video was so informative. Thank you! I start college this fall and hopefully, I'll be in med school in the next couple of years. Thanks for all the tips.
Me too
we got this :)
same, we can do this :)!
Im on track to have 300+ clinical hours as an EMT by the time I graduate high-school!! So excited to start my journey to medical school!
Right now my dream is to be an OB-GYN!!!
Me too!!☺️
@@simple223 we got this 💪💪💪
I'm not sure if you'll be able to use high school volunteering hours for medical school admissions depending where you live 😢
@@JonathanGarcia-zp5pm I asked around and I think you can only use it if you continue the activity into college! I plan on working at this company for four more years so I think I will be able to put the start date as this year. As long as most hours are from college!
Thank you for this, I am about two and half years out from applying and it is nice to know what I need to be doing right now to make my application desired. Thank you
Good luck in your journey😁
So informative thank you so much ❤
You'd think everyone would already know they're going to be in debt from med school... idk why everyone thinks that will shock us. Obviously we look into the career before choosing it. I think that mcat thing is crap, I see tons of people who only have a 490 mcat score and a 3.5 gpa and they get into med school. Stop telling everyone they're not going to get in! That's what's keeping them from getting in.
THANK YOU!
Dude, I've never heard an interventional radiologist call themselves an endovascular surgeon.
Yup!
Lol at first I thought he was a vascular surgeon, but IR makes more sense lmao
This video is soo helpful! Thank you so much!!!!!
I start premed in a week and I’m shitting bricks I’m so scared.
How right now
Which college?
How’s it going?
how it’s going?
give us an update!!
Because of this stupid COVID crap a lot of hospitals are pausing their programs. I can’t sit around so I’m doing eShadowing, I hope it counts 🤞🏼
Know of any good e-shadowing stuff that you don't mind sharing?
@@jsaikris I've been following Dr. Gray, medicalschoolhq.net/eshadowing/ here is the link!
Keep trying at It. Did my shadowing with a ton of different family physicians/nurse practitioners last month. They do alot of phone call appointments right now but still plenty of face to face patients, all of which had either serious or intricate conditions. Best experience I couldve asked for.
Not even interested in going to led school but I have a month break before going into my healthcare administration program and am bored af
Where can I get a list of classes for sample semesters through medical school?
I'm considering going back to school for pre-med. I already feel behind since I'm 25. I have a degree in theatre performance and then I wanted to join the police for a few years. After recent events in my personal life, I've decided to go to school to be a psychiatrist. I'm mainly worried about the money aspect of it. I'm worried that I'm going to get into all of this debt and then not be able to go to med school and have no way to pay it back. I certainly couldn't pay it back on a police officer's salary and by that time, I'd probably be too old to join the police anyways.
Don't feel bad Brooke, I'd love to do it but I'm hopeless at maths and the sciences so I'd never even stand a chance of GETTING INTO pre-med.
@@M.H.I.A.F.T. just study, TH-cam is free. Start from literally the beginning of what ever part is confusing you and go from there, take it slow
Don't worry, I'm 27 and just planning to go back to school for pre-med next semester, you're not alone :)
People in this comments have doubts etc... I get it it’s scary. However I know that I will never be happy not being a trauma surgeon. That is my goal and I cannot see myself doing anything else. That’s why all of this is worth it
I’m going to art school next year but I just find this very interesting lol
WHAT. Taking the MCAT 11 times???? I thought you can only take it twice
Is it really tough for international students to get admission to medical school ?
For 28:56, what resource is he talking about?
If you go to the app-store and look up Med School Coach, you can probably find it in the app store. It has all of the information that's available for what's being tested on the MCAT. I just signed up for it and am looking through it now!
528 minus 472 is 56 not 45
Please take your own time while teaching
Somebody get that poor girl some water 😭
Hello, I from India in 12th standard and I want to get into medical in usa for that I must have a pre med degree So I want to know that bachelor degrees such as BSc,B-Pharma,Bio-Tech, Bachelor in clinical research or Bachelor of physiotherapy etc from India. Will be accepted as pre med or not?
Hello, so here in the USA, after 12th grade you begin college for 4 year called "Undergrad" in which you are called pre-med, there is not a specific degree you need but usually you should finish college in india and then come here in the USA with help from a third party. It's very expensive and is a hard road as my dad was from germany.
You also need to study in the US for at least one year to apply to US medical schools. Personally I would look into other foreign medical schools in the Caribbean or Israel to get US clinical clerkships for Residency.
Yeah like Zephry gaming said, I would recommend you to focus on cracking the NEET exam, try getting into a good Indian medical college, get MBBS degree in India, and later look into coming into the US after you are already a practicing doctor. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible for one to come to USA just for undergrad degree and then medical school, as it is a huge loss of both time and money. Not to mention, the medical universities will take extremely few if any international students. Hope that helps Abdul.
@@zephyrgaming9642 really? so someone who is majoring in mechanical engineering can still be a pre-med?
@@xl1875 Yes. I’ve seen many engineers take the MCAT and go to Med school instead.
2:37
The ups driver comparison with a doctor it is comparing apples to bananas. I was an uber driver making 80k the year and now I’m a premed student and you don’t have the remote idea on how much miserable an uber or ups driver can be. Accidents are the highest risk in our line of job, I got 2 that ended up in surgeries.
Yeah, he was just saying that you shouldn't do it for the money.
Nor do you know how miserable it can be being a physician. Like you're saying, money isn't everything.
can we please connect. I am trying for premed biology.
How many AP’s do I need to take for studying medical science?
If I could go back I’d take AP bio and AP chem. AP physics if you want to
You gotta be careful, though! If you are applying for the pre med program most schools (that’s I’ve came across) do not accept AP science classes. Since they want to make sure you’re throughly understanding a college science class (like bios and Chems that are heavy in medicine). Just check w the college and see what they say.
@@AppleBottomJ same for my undergrad degree. Just a good prep to come out on top that first year being familiar with terms and some material. In my experience my AP class vs my undergrad biology class were vastly different. To be expected though
11:34
Not everyone is suited to be a doctor. There are other great professions out there for you all. Just do your own research, travel the world, and you’ll find your calling.
I am on political asylum and want to apply to us med school. Awaiting green card.
Master degree in my home country
Work as exercise physiologist, have very good understanding of human physiology, mcat looks easy to me. In my home country we don’t have gpa. Living in California. What are the best steps for me?
Hello, i'm a high school student and i'm an Indonesian 👋
How if i finished my undergraduate program in my country, but i didn't do any pre-med program as long as my undergraduate life.
But i want to go to the USA and apply to medical school.
So what should i do to take pre-med program?
Can i just apply to school/college for 1 year pre-med?
Or i should retake my undergraduate program with pre-mad program in the USA?
Hope you replay this, thank you.
There are classes you have to take before applying to medical school such as biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, calculus, English. I don’t know if you have to re do undergrad but you need those classes to apply.
You can do a post-baccalaureate premed program in the US. It usually lasts about two years and you basically take all the prerequisites classes for med school in those two years, then you can take the MCAT and apply to med school. You don't have to do a 4-year undergraduate degree all over again. I hope this helps🙂
This may not be an issue, and I only bring up because it sounds like you may not be a US citizen/permeant resident. US medical school almost exclusively matriculate US citizens or green card holders. According to this article from John's Hopkins, only about 1% of medical students are international students. If I am wrong, I do apologize. studentaffairs.jhu.edu/preprofadvising/pre-medhealth/applicants/special-applicant-groups/international-applicants/
This is just for people under the age of 30
No my mom is 40 and she’s already in med school
@@theopdominator4108 I love this. I'm 34 and going to Med school. Thought I was too old
I'm 40 and I'm a Pre-Med,will be doing my biochemistry degree first next year then my 4 yrs , I'm not giving up even if I'll be done before I'm 50.I really wanna be a Surgeon 😅😅
Sir i am bds doctor from india
I want mastres course from Canada
Please sugges me
Oh canada vich ni hege, USA vich ah
Professor whsup
He is saying the percentage of being a doctor is 5%and u will be old and in dept .. basically he says don't be a doctor...
In the united states consultant doctors make alot more than even here in europe. Better money means far more competition.
Well, after med school and your residency you will be in debt. By 40 you should have it paid off, I’d say. Which you do want interests! You’re still able to put investments towards things.
You end up retiring early if that’s what you want. Being able to support yourself and your loved ones. Plus having an experience to share
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Don't listen to this guy, he's literally trying to sell you his coaching. That's why he's trying to scare you with all this, he has insane bias and should not be trusted as an authority on the subject. He is a salesman.
LOL he's actually giving very unbiased advice. This is actually a very real an accurate representation of the pursuit of medicine. Most people trying to sell you stuff will not give you the information he's providing.