I've heard about these schools to go to when you are sure you want to be in the medical careers. I have tried to find them, but I have been unable to find any. I know they exist. It is a school that you go to and it takes six years to get your bachelors and md, instead of 4 years of college and 4 years of med school. Some kind of list would be GREAT!!!!
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To be honest, the 6 year programs are being phased out (if they haven't been completely phased out already)....even the 7 year programs are going out of style, although I do know a few do still exist. Most BS/MD programs today are 8 years long. This is the official listing of all BS/MD programs in the US...you'll have to click through the links to see how long (6/7/8 years) each program is. http://services.aamc.org/currdir/section3/degree2.cfm?data=yes&program=bsmd Frankly, the trend in medical training is for people to ADD time, either by taking time off between college and med school or taking time off during med school to do research or other programs. There are many reasons why this is true, but one is the issue of maturity. I'd also think long and hard before sacrificing a year or two of your college years...college is important on a personal and social level, not just academically. Also practically speaking, if you look through the list of schools that offer these programs, a good majority of them are at lower-ranked med schools. There are, of course, a few exceptions (eg Brown, UCSD, UPitt, and Northwestern, BU are the ones that jump out at me). But if you're talented enough to get into a combined program at one of those higher ranked schools, then you're probably talented enough to get into those schools (or their equals) through normal admission and talented to get into a great med school.
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there arent many and you literally have to be among the best students in the COUNTRY to get into the ones that do exist, as there are very few spots in the programs. if you dont have a 4.0, lots of extracurriculars (academically impressive and other), and community service, forget it, and even if you do, so does everyone applying to them, so thats definitely not going to guarentee admission. about half the students that apply to med schools every year get rejected. think about this: about 95% of the studenst who apply to these programs youre talking about get rejected. its ridiculously competitive, and im not so sure its a good thing- 2 years of undergrad wouldnt have been enough for me to shape myself as a person and learn everything i needed for med school.
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