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Post by Glenn Cummings on Oct 15, 2003 9:11:29 GMT -5
Believe me, I've heard it all, the good and the bad...but we're always open to hearing more. What is the best thing about being premed at UVa? And What is the worst thing?
While I cannot speak for some of the other faculty here at the University, I, for one--and the Preprofessional Advisign office--is always interested in making the prehealth experience better.
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Post by anonymous on Dec 9, 2003 17:03:45 GMT -5
having taken pre-med courses at other schools (i'm a transfer) i was shocked by the cut-throat competition at UVa. while it doesn't apply to everyone, there were enough instances where i wondered how that person could ever be a physician.
i'm also suprised at how science-oriented the pre-med students are. the departments (and medical system) encourage this, but come on - there's so much more to health than genetics!
it was encouraging to see a few people realize this - the bioethics people, for example. but by and large, the curriculum was focused on biology, organic chemistry, and then a little bit more of biology. 'holistic' gets thrown around here a lot, but i'd be surprised if people really know what it means. and then there's people who think 'interdisciplinary' is biochem. please.
let's put it this way - healthcare, from what i've seen and what people have told me - is VERY complicated, if you're going to be a good physician you have to realize it. i hope that future pre-med students take the time to move beyond the sciences and really explore all that they can about UVa's great liberal arts education.
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Post by Cooper Wriston on Dec 9, 2003 20:20:38 GMT -5
 The best thing about being premed at U.Va. had to be the medical school. Not every undergraduate institution has a medical school-especially one that is as great as U.Va.'s. Nor does every school make the classes (graduate classes) through the SOM as available to undergraduate's as U.Va. does. Given access to these resources (aside from just how great U.Va. is to begin with) was a boon. CCW
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Post by anon on Dec 10, 2003 14:32:02 GMT -5
I just echo the poster's comments about the premed experience being very cutthroat and the premeds being extremely (perhaps) overly science-oriented. Many premeds I knew from being a biochem major only would take science courses semester after semester, not even considering worthwhile classes in the humanities departments. At several interviews, I have found my non-science major to be a focus of discussion and I can honestly say I've learned more about medicine in my non-science (i.e. not biology, chemistry, physics) classes than in my science ones.
One thing I would add is that in the science departments, professors do not seem to like premeds at all. They usually believe that premeds view their classes as loopholes and simply want to get A's in their classes without really appreciating the material (which I think is true in my experience). This adds to the already demanding tasks of being a premed at UVa.
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Post by www on Dec 2, 2006 8:48:40 GMT -5
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