I need some answers about graduate school & colleges (simple questions that I'm confused about)?

Question

People say to go to medical school for a medical related job, can a medical school be found in a university? Like their grad program? Or is a medical school a SPECIFIC and different university totally?

I want to be an anesthesiologist, what would I need to go through? A simple outline from what I should major in in college, what I should major in in grad school.

For medical jobs, is there a specific major in grad school for your job? For optometrists, is there a specific optometry major? And a specific anesthesiology major? etc.

Is it still called a major when you get to grad school?

I hope those questions made sense. Thank you so much in advance.

Answer 1

I'll try to answer them in order.

The only reason to go to med school is to get an M.D. degree.  Most of them don't even offer anything else.  There are other "medical related" jobs though, such as nursing.

Most med schools are part of a university, but not all.  Harvard Medical School is part of Harvard.  But here in Oregon, the state medical school is the Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, which is not a part of the University of Oregon in Eugene, although it is part of the Oregon Dept of Higher Education.

Anesthesiologist are Medical Doctors with an M.D. degree who have specialized in anesthesiology during their internship/residency after med school.

Your goal in college is to prepare yourself for admission to med school.  Most colleges suggest a pre-med sequence of courses (they may or may not have pre-med as a major).  You must get great grades since admission to med school is incredibly competitive.  You also must take the MCAT (Medical College Aptitude Test) during your last year of college.  (Sort of like taking the SAT at the end of high school.)

The grad school you go to is med school.  Undergraduate college to med school; that's the sequence.

You don't major in anything in med school (other than medicine, of course).  You specialize afterwards.  If you watch any of the many doctor shows on TV, it's the young folks following around the older doctors who are the interns and residents; they're learning how to do the specialized things.  After residency, you get to be whatever it is by taking and passing the board-certification exam in that specialty.  

Optometrists are not medical doctors.  You can be an optometrist with a Bachelor's degree.  I'll give a link below.  Optometrists do eye exams and prescribe glasses.  Real eye doctors are opthalmologists.  As with other doctors, they have gone through med school and then specialized afterwards.  These are the folks who do eye surgery, for example.

There is no greater specificity than anesthesiologist.  Is there even something more specific?

There's no more specific major in med school.  It is medicine.

Answer 2

As far as I know, there is not a separate school for this. It just depends. You have to find out which college or university offers the program you want for undergrad and/or graduate school. I just finished grad school for psychology and a lot of schools had that major. I picked the one that had the shortest amount of time required to finish it. It was nuts though!

Answer 3

Many universities have medical school, but you need a 4-year college degree (not necessarily from that university) to apply to medical school.  You can major in anything you want, as long as you take the pre-med course sequence (bio, chem, and physics classes).  Medical school is a type of graduate school, but once you get their you don't major in a subject (you're only taking classes in one subject), you specialize in a field.

Answer 4

Im doing the same thing!!

MAKE SURE you have good grades, is #1.

Take a core program called pre-med

Major in Molecular Biology, Biology, and/ or chemistry.

Medical Schools are Different schools than a regular univ., but some univ have there own private medical school. Like UCF has the Rosen college of medecine.

There is a specific major for anything you do, but you handle that in medical school and when you go through residency(when you are practicing as a doctor, optometrist, etc) under supervision of someone who already made it!  

Answer 5

As far as my assessment of the medical field is concerned, there are always two aspects to it.

One is the technical side of the work and the other the managerial and the management side.

So it depends on the side that you choose for yourself. As far as your being an anesthesiologist is concerned it is a technically specific and a niche job which needs to be performed at a specificity level. For you in case you can get some certification offered in the nursing area and alike, it would be better.

If you want to get into how the anesthesia and sleep inducing medications are made then it would again have to be a specialized grad college that offers a university affiliated degree program for the same or offers it as a specialization of the general programs in medicine or biology. So, if you like to pursue a specific area of the medical field then it might require a thorough and detailed study of the desired area. (e.g.surgeon, general practicioner etc.)

In case you are interested in the managerial area (it would be advisable to assess whether the medical field in which you want to work for actually hires people in the managerial area or expects an understanding or a prior background of the medical profession in the form of a degree or not. Generally the managerial area works seperate with the practicioner area (which is highly specialized) and the best way to get these areas or sub-areas as your profession for a shorter term is to get a training certificate from the hospitals and medical establishments that offer the same in vocational and other training modes and get absorbed in them on completion of the certification.

I can go on elaborating by estimating various situations but am not exactly aware of what exactly is your expectation from this, that is, do you require a short term solution to your problem or you are looking for a longer term and focused entry into the anesthesiologist field and to the extent you want to specialize in it ?

Answer 6

Hey,

There are different levels of higher education. College/University is what a person attends to obtain his or her Bachelor's Degree - in your case you should major in Biology or even Pre-med.

Upon graduating college, people who wish to obtain a medical degree (MD) must take the MCATs and apply to Medical School, which is about 4-years in duration. This is a totally different university. Here students learn the basics of medicine and are able to choose the field of medicine they wish to practice later in life.

Graduate School is an Advanced Degree which many students attend after college. The degrees awarded are Master's Degrees (MA, MS, MBA, MPA etc.) These degrees are more subject-specific and although you do not need to obtain your Master's Degree if you wish to work in the field of medicine as a doctor, there are medicine/science related Master's degrees.