The 5 Best Classes to Prepare Yourself for Med School

It’s the beginning of a new school year and whether you’re a pre-med in undergrad, a post-bac student or a current applicant, it’s time to start thinking about important courses to take to prepare for medical school. Here are a few suggestions that I’ve had off current medical students who swear that these classes helped them to make it through their M1&M2 years unscathed.

Anatomy & Physiology

Becoming familiar in even the simple basics of the human body structure and function will be invaluable when you’re struggling through gross anatomy and trying to learn how to draw out the nerves of the brachial plexus, I promise.



Statistics/Epidemiology

This may actually be a requirement for some of the schools you end up applying to so get it over with early and you won’t have to stress about taking it during the application cycle.



Biochemistry

Honestly, I feel like Biochem has a bad rap. I really enjoyed the class I took and I think the amount of misery inflicted by this subject is inversely proportional to how awesome your professor is. Choose wisely!



Humanities/Sociology

It’s important to be well rounded as a student so you should take a few classes in the humanities or sociology that interest you. Even more important is the valuable practice you’ll get reading, condensing and summarizing large amounts of information. It might not seem useful, but you’ll be grateful for these skills when you start writing out your first H&Ps.

Anything that piques your fancy!

As long as you study hard and do well, adcoms won’t care if you have a few random classes on your transcript. They might even be interested in knowing more about that “The History of the Crusades” course you took as a freshman. Even better, you may be able to get a fantastic letter of recommendation from a prof who isn’t in the sciences and actually knows a thing or two about language and sentence structure! I joke, really, but it definitely won’t hurt to have someone other than your physics, chemistry and bio professors speak to your curiosity or abilities as a writer & critical thinker.


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