several med school have PA programs. I know Baylor College of Medicine has one. You might have to do some research for the answer to your question. a good place to start would be US news and world report ranking of grad schools.
PA school/program is not med school but it is my understanding that they basically take the same classes a med student would take in their first 2 years of med school. its easier to get in but you still have to study your butt off.
You don't have to have great grades to get in BUT you do need to show significant improvement. I got in with a 3.33 avg but for my last 2.5 yrs, my gpa was basically a 4.0. I scored a 33 on the mcat. I wasn't offered interviews at every school. The school that I got into isn't highly ranked either. That doesn't matter as much though because once you get in, everyone starts from ground zero. So just remember to work your ass off and you'll have an opportunity to go into any field you want.
If you really want it you will get it. My brother didn't do all that hot in school. I think his GPA was probably around a 3.0. His MCAT was decent, 28. He didn't apply to a great many schools and didn't get accepted to any. He got into a Podiatry school but after a year decided a MD was what he really wanted. He ended up going to a medical school down in the Caribbean. The first two years was down there and the 2nd two years was in NYC. It was hard times but he made it. They teach you just as well because he did great in his residency. And now he's making very good money. So if you want it, persist and you will get it.
tru dat. im switching from engineering to medicine and i had to go back to school fulltime for 2 years. now i finished my mcat. just gotta apply.
i need some advice from physcians/med students... ill be applying to all the texas med schools but as far as out of state, can yall recommend any schools that i have a realistic shot at. my gpa is on the low end but im hoping my mcat score makes up for it. my undergrad gpa is 3.46 (in electrical engineering) mcat = 35 + extra curriculars + working in research right now. i know that most public med schools have to enroll something like 90% in state students. how about private schools?
When I have visited other cities I have seen colleges for things like optometry and what not and the grad school that my girlfriend went to (University of Tennessee-Health Sciences) had subjects for dentistry and what not. Would you need to attend medical school to go into these programs? If not, how hard is it to go in that direction? How long does it take?
optometry and dentistry are separate school from med school. differents tests for different schools med school, osteopathic med school = mcat dental school = dcat pharmacy = pcat optometry = ?
Lil Pun: All your answers can be found on www.studentdoctor.net. They have tons of great forums over there covering almost everything you need to know about the health field. I actually used this a lot during my pre-med days. Azadre: Check out www.mdapplicants.com to kind of get a feel of what stats ppl had to get in. Although some of the info maybe skewed, it's not a bad place to look.
