Just an update on my sit., and some ?s

I have a friend going to Columbia for nursing and she was told to take Microbiology before arriving. I've also seen it in a few medical schools although the ones I've been looking at are in the Middle East so sorry if I was misleading. The programs I looked at said they were based on the American system so I assumed the requirements would be the same.
 
Definitely take pharmocology and A&P. I'm not going to beat the "get exp as an EMT before medic school thing", but if you want to come out OK after medic school, you should check into a few things: Will your ride alongs have a high call volume? Will this call volume involve a desireable ratio of legit ALS calls? Are you're ride alongs in the inner city setting, suburban, or rural? If you had to choose one venue only, it should be inner city. You stand the chance to see good traumas, psychs, and a myriad of severe medical conditions. From my experience, the population from a poor socioeconomic background are not able to look after their health as well as others. Plenty of diabetics, CHFers, chronic cardiacs, asthmatics, COPDers, etc. I was lucky to attend medic school in NYC. All rigs are double medic, and I had a choice of 8, 12, or 16 hr clinicals. ALS units in the city are generally busy and dispatched to ALS job types only. In VA and SC, in my experience, ALS units are dispatched to everything. I felt bad if the student was with us for 12 hours and treated a stubbed toe, allstateitis, runny nose x 2 weeks, drunks, medication seekers, etc.
 
phabib said:
I have a friend going to Columbia for nursing and she was told to take Microbiology before arriving. I've also seen it in a few medical schools although the ones I've been looking at are in the Middle East so sorry if I was misleading. The programs I looked at said they were based on the American system so I assumed the requirements would be the same.
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In general, the academic requirments for med school in the US is a year of biology, year of math (calculus or calculus with a statistics course), year of general chemistry, year of organic chemistry, and a year of physics all with appropriate labs. A growing number of schools are requiring a year of humanities and a handful of schools will have random requirments like a biochemistry course (e.g. University of California, Irvine).


The more you know.
 
46Young said:
Will your ride alongs have a high call volume? Will this call volume involve a desireable ratio of legit ALS calls? Are you're ride alongs in the inner city setting, suburban, or rural?
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Of course, it's impossible to predict what one will actually end up getting on rides, but the answers are generally yes, yes and inner-city/suburbs. During my EMT (same program, remember) we had the option to ride with 3 different privates that together contract 911 out of a very large chunk of the metro area, which has a population of 3.8 million. These services will be available again, and I believe additional options. Also have multiple options for great hospital clinical sites.

In addition, I have connections with the local FD, also in a city/suburb, which runs medic/medic ALS rigs and has a medic and ALS capabilities on every engine, and I hope to start talking with them about supplemental rides (I rode with them during EMT class and was allowed to do pt. care).
 
Good deal, get on it!
 
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