Biology/Sciency and Political Science double major?

juillet
Tue, 25 Aug 2015 05:17:21 +0000

You don’t have to major in a science to be a physician; you just have to complete the pre-med requirements. So you could easily major in political science and then do the pre-med track, completing your required classes. Recently medical schools have seen the value in admitting social sciences and humanities majors because of their different approach to medicine; however, you still have to have high GPA, high MCAT scores, and the other trappings of med school applications (shadowing, research, summer internships, whatever).

Yes, public health/environmental health definitely goes hand in hand with political science. There’s an entire field of public & environmental health policy, where you can help set and research the impact of legislation and other policies on the public’s health. You can specialize specifically in environmental policy if you want to. If you are interested in environmental health sciences, you might want to study one of the life sciences - environmental science or chemistry, particularly - in undergrad. But you could minor in it instead of major.