Taking pre-med classes after the fact?

preamble1776
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 01:05:13 +0000

This is just a question I have been thinking about recently but I didn’t really know how to phrase it. I am also pretty ignorant when it comes to graduate/post-bac work that goes beyond the typical/conventional undergraduate straight to graduate route.

Let’s say you’re an English major approaching graduation and you just had some sort of epiphany that you want to pursue a career in medicine, but you haven’t taken any of the necessary courses required for medical school admission. Can you do it after the fact? How would one go about doing that? Does that require a second degree? Or do you take the classes individually (non-degree)? Do you need to enroll in a graduate program?