Undergraduate that is Pre-med allowed to take graduate med school courses?

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>Is that possible???</p>

<p>Isn’t Medical school kind of like a graduate school?? Like Law School etc…</p>

<p>So would this apply to their ideology of allowing undergraduate pre-med oriented students to take a few first year medical courses/seminars with med students and gain credits??</p>

<p>I saw this idea on their brochure of allowing both undergrad/graduate students and allowing them to take undergraduate seminars/courses and graduate seminars/courses…</p>

<p>Its on the online stanford prospective student booklet… In PDF format u can get it from their website…</p>

<p>Anyways can someone confirm this idea that an individual is allowed to take graduate courses in medicine?</p>

<p>answer will be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<p>Ambitiousteen</p>

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<p>Undergrads are allowed to take graduate courses, not professional school courses (law, med, biz). Professional schools do offer a limited number of courses to all students.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/registrar/bulletin/pdf/SchoolofMedicine.pdf[/url]”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/registrar/bulletin/pdf/SchoolofMedicine.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Btw, grad school courses are NOTHING like med school courses.</p>

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<p>well i know that… i was thinking they were graduate studies… as in it is something after undergrad… i wasnt trying to confuse the 2… i just thought of it as in medicine is graduate school… and undergrad etc…</p>

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<p>Sure, they’re both after undergrad, but graduate school is on the academia track whereas med school is definitively a trade/professional school. ENTIRELY different worlds.</p>

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<p>I don’t know for sure, but I do know that Stanford offers this anatomy course where undergrads can dissect a person. I know usually only med school students get that opportunity and I’ve never heard of any other school allowing that. It’s really competitive and you pretty much have to be a senior to take it, but you don’t have to be premed. It just happens that most people are premed.</p>

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<p>Each professional school has its own tuition and budget, so classes are not normally open to other students: undergrads, grads, and other professional students. As I mentioned, some schools do offer a limited number of open classes.</p>

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<p>Be aware also that when you take classes in other schools, especially the GSB (business school), you’re subject to their deadlines, rules and grading scales, which in the GSB results in a wicked curve that’s really tough.</p>

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<p>There is an autopsy class that is a sophomore preference seminar</p>

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<p>Better late than never? Anyway, undergrads are able to take med. school courses for credit. The offerings are limited to electives like Wilderness Medicine, Medical Acupuncture).</p>

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<p>old posting
but basic science years at most medical schools are open to undergrads - or other grad students - if they are qualified to take the course. Prime examples being biochemistry and physiology and histology</p>