[quote name='help1'][quote name='y2jrevolution'][quote name='help1'][quote name='Trakan']Highschool diploma for right now. Help1, what about you?[/quote]
Im planing to go 4+ years in college.... I want to go into medical..... but I will settle for pre-med....[/quote]
Well yeah, it kinda works that way. Pre-med, then medical school.[/quote]
I don't know what your talking about..... pre-med is 8 years and after 4 years you need to take M-CATS, get a good score, and need to apply to colleges again...
Med is 7 years and you don't need to take M-CATS or apply to colleges again.... your in the program as long as you maintain the score....[/quote]
You may need some more highschool education if that's what you think the path to an M.D. is.
It starts in college. Most colleges don't have "pre-med" majors, but they usually have a set of classes you can take that sastify the various medical school pre-requisites. In other words, there is no "pre-medical" school. (Hmm, that's not exactly true but that's only if you want to go to a special program for students who want to improve their application.)
So that's 4 years. Usually during the 3rd or 4th year (depending on whether you want to take a year off before med-school) is when you take the MCAT (which is essentially like a SAT was for college).
Then you apply to med school, which last about 4 years (but it depends on whether or not you apply for a dual MD/PhD degree).
Then you take quals to gain your M.D. Lastly, you go through your residency (think of the "interns" on ER, the show).
Hope that helped.