Do you need an undergrad bio major for combined MD/Ph.d programs?

[sakky]

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If you think you might want a combined MD/Phd from med school and eventually do biomedical research, do you really need an undergrad bio major to prepare for that, or can you still look at majors in areas like history or IR as long as you have the normal

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<p>I’ll put it to you this way. I see that at Johns Hopkins, a history major could complete a MD/PhD, with the PhD being in the History of Medicine</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/mdphd/gradprograms.html[/url]”>http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/mdphd/gradprograms.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“History of Science and Technology | Johns Hopkins University”>History of Science and Technology | Johns Hopkins University;

<p>Harvard now runs MD/PhD programs that allow people to get PhD’s in the social sciences like economics, sociology, psychology, and government, etc.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd/program/sstrack.htm[/url]”>http://www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd/program/sstrack.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The point is that certain MSTP programs allow students to get doctorates in things that are quite far removed from biology. Hence, I don’t think there is any real requirement that you have to be a bio or bio-related major in order to get admitted. Obviously somebody who got into the PhD program in Government as part of the MD/PhD program at Harvard was probably not a biology major in undergrad.</p>