What major would best prepare one for the MCAT

i_wanna_be_Brown
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:47:29 +0000

I’m sorry for your experience in this matter but unfortunately I believe you’re still mistaken. I studied this field extensively for several months as part of an academic project a few years ago (when I thought I wanted to be one). There are PhDs in forensic science, forensic entomology, forensic anthropology, and forensic psychology but a true “forensic pathologist” is an MD (or DO) who has done a pathology residency and then a forensic pathology fellowship. A medical examiner must be an MD. In no US county is a medical examiner not an MD although he may not be a forensic pathologist or even a pathologist. The majority of coroners are not MDs but some places require that they are. People probably do mix and match terms but that’s incorrect.