Is it possible to have career in medical field after engineering?
Yes. Engineers can give their services to Medical Sector as well and have promising career ahead. However, they can't become doctor and treat the patients but can help in diagnosing the diseases and subsequently curing them. Please refer to following Wikipedia article on Biomedical Engineering : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Go to medical school after civil engineering?
Right now I am a junior in college studying civil engineering but I m now realizing I don t like it. I think I want to research neurology, could I take the MCAT and still get into medical school if I get a good score even though I have a degree in civil engineering?
Med school with mechanical engineering degree?
I plan on applying to medical school with a mechanical engineering degree. I have already completed all the med school prerequisites. (bio, chem, etc) Will my mechanical engineering degree hurt my chances of admission?
Can I major in Petroleum Engineering and Pre-Med?
You could, but why would you? Just take the required medical classes to be eligible for medical school. You do not NEED it double major-just meet the requirements (take all the required medical school course) while in PETE. This won't be easy. PETE is hard enough as it is & there is barely any elective space (depending on your university this varies-but I know LSU and A&M it's very rigid). You will probably have to to take 6 hours over two summer semesters and use the little free electives you have to take more courses. Engineering is HARD. You have to be very bright to graduate with over a 3.5 and medical schools want PERFECTION. Yes, medical schools will take into consideration your major but if you have a 3.3 and your in Engineering major and someone else rolls up with a 3.8 in Zoology-you lose. GPA is important. Also, because you'd be taking tough Pre-Med classes, you can't take any "easy" classes to boost up your GPA. What I really want to leave you with is that fact that you DON'T have to double major in Pre-Med and PETE in order to be eligible for medical school. You just have to take the necessary prerequisites that will qualify you for medical school. Good luck. Please. Do not listen to this girl below me. Chemical Engineers don't make anywhere close to PE starting out. PEs make 75+ while CHes make 50+. But she's right about the electives like A&P, Organic Chem 1 & 2 ect. But that's why I said that you'd have to take 6 hours each over two summers and use electives to take more classes. Also, in order to minor in something you have to take Senior level courses in that area. In PETE the last 2 years are HIGHLY specialized (not many other students take them), and you won't have space to take many electives (which you will use for Pre-Med) which is all the more reason you need to attend summer school.
Is Chemical Engineering a good major for medical school?
As long as you take the prerequisites you can major in anything you like. However, engineering degrees usually result in very low GPA's because they are extremely difficult. Believe me when I say medical schools do care a lot about your GPA. Even if you worked much harder and took a lot of intense classes, the psychology or music major with a 3.9/4.0 would be picked over an engineering student with a 3.0 GPA. They don't discriminate on the difficulty of your major at all, so all GPA's are considered equally.
Which one is harder, engineering or medical?
I'm an engineer. My wife is an RN, and through her, we have several friends who are MDs. I've even gone along on a few medical missions and witnessed surgeries first hand. And I would say that you can't make a blanket statement that one is harder than the other. They're both diverse fields, with more and less challenging paths in each.For example, as an engineer, you could earn your bachelors degree, then go off to a manufacturing company in a well established industry, and do nothing but look up values in tables and plug in numbers in already developed formulas. That's not very challenging at all. Or, you could earn a PhD, go off to a research institution, and try to solve new and fundamental problems in your field (e.g. https://www.flightlab.com/resear... ). Medicine ranges from family practice to epidemiology to pathology to surgery to countless other fields.I do think it's more stressful / difficult to actually become a medical doctor than an engineer. MDs have to go to graduate school, pass their licensing test, and complete their residency (almost like an apprenticeship). Engineers simply need a bachelor's degree. Granted, engineers can earn PhDs, and can do a lot of on the job training and continuing education throughout their careers, and can do the EIT to PE path (our own version of an apprenticeship, which is more important in some fields than others), but all that's not required to simply become an engineer.So, it depends an awful lot on the specific field of engineering and medicine. There's probably a higher minimum level of competency among MDs than engineers because of the more difficult path to become an MD, but at the more challenging levels, I think they're comparable. After all, the two go-to phrases to emphasize intelligence are 'rocket science' and 'brain surgery'.