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Humanities student wanting to go into medicine

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mobius.strip:
I have up until now only considered science/biomed degrees since I wish to get into graduate medicine however I'm quite interested in perhaps completing an arts degree at Melbourne now and doing the prereqs on the side. The main reason is because my study scores in both english and literature were quite high and I didn't do almost as well in biology despite putting a lot of time in it. I'm thinking that perhaps an arts degree will result in a better average so that I can have a better chance when applying for medicine. In terms of interest, I think I will quite enjoy both degrees so I'm wondering if vce study scores correlate at all to how one performs in university and whether students who have completed arts degrees who have gone onto graduate medicine encountered any major difficulties in the transition.

sarangiya:

--- Quote from: mobius.strip on December 16, 2018, 04:53:27 pm --- I'm wondering if vce study scores correlate at all to how one performs in university and whether students who have completed arts degrees who have gone onto graduate medicine encountered any major difficulties in the transition.

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In my personal opinion, I don't think study scores indicate how well you will do in any discipline at University. I mean, to some extent of course - chances are if you are good at math you'll get a high study score in methods and good marks doing idk math101 at uni. But I think it's more dependent on the will of the person, their ability to learn independently and what the Uni subject is actually like!

In terms of medics with humanities backgrounds, there is quite a bit of discussion on Medical Students Online. Notably, with the opinion that no, regardless of background anyone can do science if they try hard enough!

Best of luck :))

AngelWings:

--- Quote from: sarangiya on December 17, 2018, 04:20:56 am ---In my personal opinion, I don't think study scores indicate how well you will do in any discipline at University. I mean, to some extent of course - chances are if you are good at math you'll get a high study score in methods and good marks doing idk math101 at uni. But I think it's more dependent on the will of the person, their ability to learn independently and what the Uni subject is actually like!

In terms of medics with humanities backgrounds, there is quite a bit of discussion on Medical Students Online. Notably, with the opinion that no, regardless of background anyone can do science if they try hard enough!

Best of luck :))

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Echoing the above message.  I’m going to add from my own experiences as a Monash BSci (Hons) student who only continued their worst scoring subjects from VCE (Chemistry and Japanese) at university level and not even studying biology since Year 9 until I started uni. Fast forward a few years and I now have an extended major in genetics and have done my Honours project in the same area, with minors in my two worst subjects in VCE. I actually scored a lot better in university chemistry than I did in high school, so high school marks doesn’t necessarily correlate to university marks. It’s pretty much a fresh slate.

sarangiya:

--- Quote from: AngelWings on December 17, 2018, 11:20:40 am --- Echoing the above message.  I’m going to add from my own experiences as a Monash BSci (Hons) student who only continued their worst scoring subjects from VCE (Chemistry and Japanese) at university level and not even studying biology since Year 9 until I started uni. Fast forward a few years and I now have an extended major in genetics and have done my Honours project in the same area, with minors in my two worst subjects in VCE. I actually scored a lot better in university chemistry than I did in high school, so high school marks doesn’t necessarily correlate to university marks. It’s pretty much a fresh slate.

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Super inspiring!! Congrats and great work AngelWings!!

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