Today we cover four questions from a nontraditional premed, Mohamed. Along with the question in the title-whether it's okay to take summer premed classes-we also cover some practical time/money issues as a nontraditional student, telescribing as a clinical experience, and doing research in the "soft sciences" for your med school application.
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Mohamed took a non-science degree for his bachelor's, so he didn't have any science credits going into his postbac. He's a full-time TV producer along with being a nontrad premed. Here are his questions:
1. His current plan is to be a full-time premed student while also working full-time as a TV producer. He's a little worried about stress and burnout with balancing all this at once. He's considering switching to scribing or other part-time clinical work while he's a premed, but he's not sure if he can make it work financially.
My advice to Mohamed is that he may need to adjust his lifestyle to be able to afford it. Can he cut expenses anywhere to make this path more viable? As it turns out, he is already on the same page and making some changes to his lifestyle in this direction.
2. Is a telescribing job really clinical experience? It's neat experience and could help you learn medical terminology, but my answer is that I don't actually see telescribing as clinical experience because you're not there in person with the patients.
3. Should you take summer classes as a premed? Is it okay to take prerequisites in the summer? Do med schools dislike that because the classes might be easier? Some people suggest taking summers off from your classes to just focus on extracurriculars like shadowing. But I'm actually an advocate of trying to stay consistent with extracurriculars and shadowing, not cramming them all into the summer. So I say go ahead and take summer premed classes, and just overlay some extracurriculars through the whole path.
4. Would sociology or psychology research look good on your medical school application, or is it better to have research in the hard sciences? My answer on this is pretty simple: Sociology and psychology research would be just fine. Research is more about using the scientific method and critical thinking, rather than specific lab techniques or anything.
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