hey premeds Options

[Melissa]

I'm going to talk to my premed adviser about this, of course, but I want to get other opinions from people who've gone through this or are going through this.

My general adviser told me that it might be a good idea to take a lag year between senior year and med school - that way, my junior year wont be cramped with orgo, physics, and advanced bio (for neuroscience, too) and I could take my mcats senior year, then apply to med schools during my year off.

My cousin's doing this and is doing research at Columbia Presby during her year off, but my uncle thinks it's a really bad idea.

I mean, I guess the pros would be to have a year off - 15+ years of school/residency/internships/etc in a row is extremely intense. Another pro would be the med school interview process - flying off for an interview in the middle of school must really suck.

I'm not sure. I'm not discussing this with my parents until I talk to the premed advisers, though.

[angelrevelation]

Maybe you could take the year off and do medical related work, like with the Red Cross or some other charity thing in South America or Africa.

I'm earning my nursing assistant certificate right now (I'm a senior in high school) and hoping I'll be able to work a bit to get some contacts, and show that I really want to go into medicine, even though an NAC isn't exactly a doctor.