Best Engineering Major for a Premed

toronto_guy
Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:34:57 +0000

I think if your goal is medicine, you will never be fulfilled working as an engineer. You should do whatever it takes to meet that goal and that means getting the best grades possible.

Like we talked about in other posts, I think there is this myth that people cannot achieve very good grades in engineering. This is simply not true. If you have the proper aptitude for the physical sciences and work hard enough, you can get top grades in engineering.

On the other hand a career in medicine involves an aptitude for the life sciences and if this is where your skills lay, then I think a degree in biology, physiology, biochemistry is more suited.

It is somewhat delusional to think that if a career in medicine does not work out, you will undertake rocket engineering etc. If you are committed to the very noble goal of medicine only this will satisfy your career ambitions.