You absolutely can go to med school without a typical “pre-med” degree. But you’re going to have to put some work into preparing for med school.
First and MOST important–
Have you done any volunteering in clinical settings (hospitals, nursing homes, public health clinics, standalone surgical or dialysis center, Planned Parenthood, Healthcare for the Homeless etc) where you interact with actual patients? (Family members don’t count!)
This needs to be your first step because medicine isn’t about anatomy or studying the human body, it’s about dealing with people who are sick, injured, chronically ill, mentally ill, elderly demented, physically disabled and dying. And all their family members.
I’d hate to see you spend years of your time and lots of $$ only to find out you’re hate dealing with patients.
Once you have done some volunteering and are sure you want to pursue medicine, then you need to start taking science classes.
You’ll need 2 semesters of general chemistry w/ labs, 2 semesters of organic chemistry with labs, 2 semesters intro bio with labs, 2 semesters of intro physics (either algebra or calculus based) with labs, 1 semester of biochem, 2 semesters of “college level” mathematics, one semester of which must be statistics (thru the math or a science dept. Stats for social science or business doesn’t address the same methods and topics you need for med school.) Plus a semester each of intro psych and intro sociology.
If you have the time, a few extra useful classes are: genetics, anatomy & physiology, and the sociology of healthcare.
Besides the above coursework you’ll need to complete the ECs expected of all pre-meds: clinical volunteering (200+ hours is typical); non-medical community service with disadvantaged groups (200+ hours is expected); physician shadowing (50-60 hours, some of which must be done with primary care doctors); leadership roles in your activities.
For the science coursework, you have 2 options. You can attend a formal post-bacc program for career changers OR you can do a do-it-yourself post bacc at any convenient college.
The formal post-bacc route is more efficient, but it also costs more. It requires full time enrollment for about 2 years. But these programs often offer structured volunteering opportunities, MCAT prep classes and personalized advising.
You can find a searchable database of post-bacc programs here:
https://mec.aamc.org/postbac/#/index
Choose Career Changer as the type. Career changer programs are for those students who haven’t any or have only taken a few science/math classes.
The do-it-yourself option is less expensive and you can do it part-time if you want to.
One of my daughters was career changer (she was a physics major). She and her sister both had lots of non-“pre med” majors in their med school class. Everything from agriculture to women’s studies and everything in between, like music performance, Italian, English lit. theology, business…
The agriculture major is a MD/PhD and in training to do gastroenterology. The theology major is an oncologist, the English major is a surgeon, the Italian major is a pulmonology specialist who is completing her PhD in public health. The applied music major is a rural family medicine practitioner.