Brain Surgeon/Heart Surgeon

<p>Med school courses are different that undergraduate courses anyway. College courses focus on concepts, analysis, building intellectual bridges across ideas. Medical school courses focus on memorizing facts. If you took medical school courses in college, and again in medical school there would be some advantage, if you could stand the college side of it, and the repetition. Taking college bio really will not help you much. </p>

<p>The major decision about taking residents is based on how they do on their clinical rotations, much less on the basic science courses. There is not much you can do in college that will help your clinical rotations. These depend on being alert, studying a lot, paying attention, and being responsible. It will be rare for anyone to ask you a question the answer to which you could learn in college.</p>

<p>Until you have spent some time in medical school you don’t know enough about medicine to know what field you would prefer. Certainly too early to plan for it now. </p>

<p>One of the best neurosurgeons I know was a classics major.</p>