<p>Does this look like a good pre-med degree to pursue? </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.catalog.sdes.ucf.edu/current/degree_programs/health_sciences_preclinical/[/url]”>http://www.catalog.sdes.ucf.edu/current/degree_programs/health_sciences_preclinical/</a></p>
<p>The intro specifically lists the programs it’s meant to guide students into, and medicine isn’t one of them.</p>
<p>It’s an extremely poor degree to pursue.</p>
<p>On just a minimal level, the chemistry is no where near enough - usually anything listed as “fundamentals” is a watered down version of the subject matter. The intro to organic and biochemistry is laughable, considering two full semesters of organic is required everywhere and at least one semester of biochem is something I would recommend to everyone (and strongly, strongly encourage 2 semesters of if possible/available).</p>
<p>This is a highly tailored program for the areas the website lists, and even then I wouldn’t recommend this for people looking to go into the allied health fields. Any graduate level program is going to cover all of the topics covered in the upper division requirements at a level and depth more specific to the field the student is entering. It seems questionable to me to take classes in topics that are going to be covered more appropriately later. For example: Why does an Occupational Therapist need to have a 3 hour course in epidemiology? As I understand occupational therapy (and I think I have a firm enough grasp at this point to know when to at least refer a patient to an OT) I don’t see the need for an OT to understand the practices and concepts of monitoring diseases and conditions at the macro level view at which much of epidemiology operates. While I am most likely missing some connection, I doubt that many OT schools would cover the topic for the equivalent of a semester.</p>