According to the RN-to-MD.blogspot.com, about Nursing as a Pre-Med, found out that in this 21st Millennium, biases and prejudices set aside, unconsidering the Desperate Housewives TV Series writ that had create the underdog image of Filipino health care providers and the halted issue of Physicians enrolling to join the Nursing bandwagons. BS Nursing is probably the practical Pre-Med course compared to BS Medical Technology, BS Biology, BS Pharmacy, BA/BS Psychology, BS Physical Therapy, BS Sports Science, BS Speech and Language Therapy, BS Applied Physics major in Instrumentation, BS Chemistry, BS Physics, BS Mathematics major in Actuarial Science, BS Microbiology, BS Biochemistry, BS Public Health, BS Physical Therapy, BS Occupational Therapy and others. Firstly, sophomore Nursing students already interact with the patients on their Related Learning Experience. Second, BS Nursing graduates will always have a lucrative fallback profession compared to others just in case of they weren’t able to finish the Med School and that’s not a lame excuse. Third, it can obtain two titles (RN and MD) if the person wish for prestige purposes in the event that they choose to enroll in the Med School after taking the Nursing Licensure Examination. Fourth, strange emphasis of a Physician who’s Pre-Med is Nursing will most likely to have a better Patient-Physician and Nurse-Physician relationship compared to others. Fifth, Nursing grads usually shine in their Clerkship during the Med School, where it mostly deal with abnormalities since they’ve seen how it works, worsens and heals, and how to manage diseases of almost all kinds. Sixth, let us remember that the bulk of being a Doctor rest not only in laboratory tests and dissection alone, you need to find out what’s making the person sick first right?, and that’s where Pathophysiology kick off. Seventh, Nurses have a background of fundamental medical concepts/clinical reasoning in relation to real patient cases because of extensive exposure to Clinical setting. Eight, Nurses have clinical eye and good therapeutic communication since very rigorous duty hours are on the bed side. Ninth, BSN grads will show that they know and can comprehend what a Physician does and what the job is like, as they’ve seen them work first hand. Tenth, Nurses can plant seeds of healthy answers in Revalidas. Eleventh, it is having the best two worlds, Nursing and Medicine, that makes the BS Nursing the best Pre-Med there is.
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ReplyDeleteHi. I am a med student in Cebu (as an international student from a country in far East Asia). As you pointed out, major in nursing is one of the best majors to prepare for med school admissions. In many countries (especially industrialized countries), med school admission is really competitive. Every year, millions of pre-med students (who really want to serve the patients as doctors) failt to enroll med schools. Interestingly, most pre-med students in these countries never major nursing and earn RN. As a result, the number of nurses is not enough. In this country, enrolling med school is not so difficult (except for UP and Univ. of Santo Tomas) as long as the student can pay for tuition. But, finishing med school is tough. Another issue is that average salary of physicians is not so high. So, new med school graduates are eager to work in foreign countries, especially the U.S.. Finally, I really appreciate the Philippine people and this country because I can study medicine. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI also think that med school applicants must consider the worst senario in life. If they fail to enroll med schools, if they drop out (due to poor academic performance) med school, or if they have to quit their job as doctors (due to malpractice), what will they do for next career? If you think you are very happy with working as a nurse, you should major nursing at undergraduate. If you do not want to work as a nurse, you should choose other majors and study what you really want. As long as you finish math and science (bio, general chem, org chem, and physics) courses with good grades at undergradaute to apply for med schools, you can major anything. In my case, I majored legal studies at undergraduate and education at graduate school. I took math and science courses at undergraduate. I regret I should have majored pharmacy.
ReplyDeleteyou owned them like you are the president of the PNA...hahahaha..im an RN and am planning to proceed..thanks for the confidence boost...hope you could help me with something...here's my mail:
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oh btw, im from davao....=) thanks again po
hi, im also planning to to take up medicine im also RN and luckily got RM title as well. i just want to ask if you know any school who provides cheap tuition fee here in manila. im just an average student and definitely cant qualify in any scholarships. thanks! hope to here from you. btw, your blog is very helpful! thanks a lot! =)
ReplyDeleteif you really want to be a doctor and that's what your passion is really all about, you will really do all means and ways to pursue medicine.
ReplyDeleteyou don't need to force yourself studying medicine in manila if you have no enough money. There are still excellent medical schools in visayas and mindanao just like West Visayas State University and Mindanao State University in Iligan. Budget per semester does't exceed P20,000 and the cost of living is really cheap. Just like boarding houses around the corner is only P650.
You will still be a doctor, graduate of a state university and having the excellent standards just like the one in UP Manila and UST.
Hi, jammy blessed. i'm eyeing MSU as my med school, but i can't find any web links for their admission requirements. can you help me with this, please? and a friend told me that i may have to take some subjects that weren't included in my college course. how does this work? can i take it during my med school years? please advise, thanks. :)
DeleteJammy, this really caught my eye. p650 boarding houses? I meant near WVSU. I've been thinking about enrolling in there (d/t financial constraints), and my main problem is that I do not know much about Iloilo.
DeleteI just want to know more, like whether electricity and water comes with the p650, how much would a boarding student be spending in per month on average, how many boarders there are supposedly in a unit, etc.
I've never done this boarding thing before and am quite apprehensive. Please share with us whatever you know. Anything would help.
Good day!
Hello, I'm currently taking up nursing in cebu and I was wondering how pressured are you really in med school because from what I've heard they say you're more pressured in nursing compared to medicine. I could really use some help. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteGood day! These past few days I'm really confused of what pre-med course should I take up, wether it's medtech(originally), BS pharmacy or BS Nursing. My mother told me that veterinary could be a pre med course. what pre med course should I take? can someone help me please? thank you.
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