Online Postbaccalaureate Premedical Programs

By Dave Young


We live in an age where classes on the web are increasing at an amazing pace. These days, even highly ranked schools are offering to you instructional classes on the web by using their particular providers or by things like Coursera. Along with the availability of online classes, how about doing your postbaccalaureate premedical study on the internet?

Do you remember that modern day we are living in in which the web is expanding dramatically? Well, medical science and medical schooling is not at all close just yet. In an age of cell phones and high speed broadband and free wi-fi, medical school admissions officers continue to be trapped in the early 90's "Here's the AOL cd" phase.

Nearly all medical schools in america will not accept courses taken on the internet. Some say it straight up (I'm thinking about you Vandy!) while other people soundlessly pitch those submissions in the garbage. Rest assured, online courses won't be suitable at pretty much any med school. This may possibly switch in the long run as institutions turn the corner with this issue, but for now this is how it really is.

So, will there be any role for web based studying in your post-baccalaureate studies? Certainly! Because of so many courses presently online, you can study from the top tutors on the planet free! There's no reason to let a poor teacher prevent your learning; go on the internet and learn about it from the much better one and come back and crush your exams.

I've also experienced a lot of success with Khan Academy, another free service on the internet to find free mini-tutorials on practically any area of interest. Khan himself used to instruct MCAT for Princeton Review, so most of the pre-med main subject areas can be found. If you ever realize you are baffled by a topic, you can see one or two 8 minute videos and soon it can all be sensible to you. And did I mention this is all absolutely free?

While Khan is perfect for small levels of support, you can check out Coursera or MIT's online courseware to access other full science classes entirely over the internet. Walter Lewin's introductory physics course at MIT was the top downloaded podcast on iTunes for a long period, and the man helps make calc-based intro to physics really appear exciting.

Sadly, there's no viable online postbaccalaureate premedical program currently, although there are plenty who would want to take your cash! In the meantime, online post-bacc work will be limited to study for your own improvement.

Consider using this to check the waters before investing real money. Use it ahead of your courses in order to begin with an advantage. I personally scored above the 90th percentile on the MCAT without the need of stepping inside of a science course because of these web based tools, though I did ultimately take classes from a brick-and-mortar university.

For a long time, achieving success during these pre-med classes was determined by the good luck of getting great instructors or being naturally talented; finally, everyone can study organic chem and physics thanks to internet based post-bacc classes. Now if perhaps we were able to get the adcoms be a part of the 21st century!




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