Pre-medicine programs?

[Malfunction]

Right, so I'm about to enter my senior year of HS in September, and I'm pretty convinced that I want to eventually go to medical school to become a physician (specializing in sports medicine eventually), so in order to get there I [obviously] need to graduate from an undergraduate program. I've been looking around at schools on CollegeBoard, and I've been pondering over pre-medicine programs. From what I understand, they're designed to prepare the student for medical school and the MCAT, while you also major in something else. What I want to know is if any of you have any experience in pre-med, and if it's really worth it.

It seems like the ideal scenario for me would be to attend a school that offers a pre-med program as well as one of the following majors: athletic training/sports medicine, exercise physiology, exercise sciences. When I run a search for schools that have to offer pre-med and then a combination of one of those three majors, I come up with extremely limited results. However, if I eliminate pre-med, I get plenty of results.

Cliffs:
- is pre-med worth it?
- is preparing/getting into medical school extremely difficult without being in pre-med?

Gracias. Danke. Thanks.

 

[mindless_moder]

okie , this thread feels sort of empty so i'll just give you my two cents . i dont know much about premed but most of us engineering students are taking up Biomedical engineering and then using that as a stepping stone towards medicine.

pros
- If you don't get into med school then atleast you have a valuable degree and you don't necessarily have to work in research.

cons
- Engineering is quite a difficult degree in itself and biomedical doubly so .

 

[Malfunction]

Haha, it's ok, I didn't expect much from this forum (no offense to my homies here). I got some good responses on two other forums I frequent that helped me out a bit, and I do understand what you're saying.

I was thinking that if I opted not to go into pre-med and then majored in something like Exercise Sciences, I'd still at least have a BS degree, which is something. I really do want to go the whole nine yards though with medical school and everything.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I was gonna do it, but my gpa is nowhere near enough to stand a chance against the competition.