Do You Go To University Or College To Study Medicine

Is university of central florida a good school to study medicine?

You can be pre-med at any undergraduate institution in the US and apply to medical school, as long as you take all of the pre-requisite courses, have a high GPA, and do well on the MCAT. A lot of schools with medical schools take more undergraduates from their associated university, so if you want to go to University of Central Florida College of Medicine, their undergrad program would be a good place to start. The least expensive way to study medicine is to go to a school in the state where you are a resident (many have separate tuition rates for in-state residents), so if you are a resident of Florida, Florida State University, University of Florida, and University of Central Florida all have medical schools.

Which university or college offers medical studies in Malaysia?

I think you need to go for A levels or STPM before you can embark for a degree in medicine.

All public universities offers medicine but different stream ie some only offer Pharmacies and others offer only Dentistries. The ones I can remember that offer doctor in medicine will be Universiti Malaya, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia, etc.

There are lots of private colleges that offer twinning courses like Sunway College, Inti College, UCSI etc. The one I know of that offer private local degree is IMU- International Medical University located in Bukit Jalil. Segi College offers nursing if I am not mistaken.

Hope it helps.

Is Texas Tech University a decent college if you want to go to a good (top 50) Medical School afterwards?

Yes to both questions.

Don't fall victim to ranking a medical school. There's not a dime's bit of difference between the education received at the Medical College of Georgia and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. There can't be. All medical schools are accredited by the same authority and all medical student have to pass the same medical licensing exams. If 90% of students from one school passed these exams and only 80% of students from the other school passed, there would be intense focus by the LCME to identify and rectify the problem. Fortunately, the pass rates from all US schools are within a few percentage points of each other and have been, consistently.

Texas Tech has its own medical school, so you're sitting right where you want to be. The best chance of being accepted into a medical school is to do your undergrad at the same university with a medical school. Of course, the downside to that is if you earn a reputation that is less than stellar or you have marginal grades.

There are 2,618 universities and colleges in the US. Logically, there will be variances in the grading criteria, so it is reasonable to think that a 4.0 GPA from one school might carry more weight than a 4.0 from another. But it doesn't work that way. There would be too many variables. Certainly, the overall GPA is considered, but it's the corollary between the GPA in the prereqs and the score on the MCAT that are the scholastic determinants. So, if an "easy" school awarded a 4.0 GPA in the prereqs and the student scored poorly on the MCAT...Yo siento, no entrada.

Is admission to Medical School affected by which College/University you attended for undergrad work?

Sorry to disagree with "J" but it is definitely true that the school you come from has a dramatic effect on your probablilty of acceptance when applying to med school. All schools like to brag about their high proportion of acceptances to med school, but the way they calculate those acceptances is very different from school to school. Some schools calculate the percent of premed scholars accepted from all the students in the uni who apply. Other schools calculate only the per cent accepted from those students who were specifically recommended by the undergrad unis premed review board -which means, they select out only that small fraction of the premeds who they thought had an actual chance of admission, and calculate the admissions based on those kids.

It is simply not true that a 3.6 from 'no-name u' ranks is equal to a 3.6 from U Chicago, MIT, Duke, Stanford or the Ivies. One reason why MCATs are getting more and more weight in the admissions process is because the GPAs from different schools do not reflect the state of knowledge of the students - students from the elite schools routinely score higher MCATs than even good kids from the tier 3 schools because their chem, bio and physics courses are more rigorous starting on day one. I was amused a couple years ago when a kid I tutored in calculus emailed me his notes from U Chicago's first day of General Chem and the entire lecture was a long series of quantum mechanics equations... the prof just assumed that everybody was already 100% familiar with equilibrium, electron levels, acid-base and redox and all that mundane stuff so he skipped straight into the middle of the text on day one. They don't do that at Podunk U.

If you take the top ten percent of US high school grads each year, less than a quarter of them wind up at the elite universities. The others go to state unis, and other respectable colleges. So, there are always going to be a lot of kids from elite schools getting into med school, and there are always going to be lots of other kids getting in as well. If you are one of the best, you will make it into med school.

There may be a difference in which med school you attend, but it is true that the 'rankings' are not very meaningful. PRetty much all the kids int he med school will be smart, hardworking kids. The schools all teach similar curriculum and all the kids must take the same exams. So, any med school you get into is a good med school.